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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 451-460
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; chair of Virginia's State Human Rights Committee, responsible for protecting the rights of persons with mental disabilities (1979-1985) ; and chief advisor for the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Mental Health Standards Project (1981-1988)
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Dr. Brindis's specific content expertise is in the areas of young adult, adolescent, and child health policy and analyses of a wide array of health policies, including those related to improving health care access for underserved communities and pursuing strategies for closing the gap between the emergence of evidence-based innovation and its application to policy and programs. Her research portfolio includes policy analyses and evaluations of the state of California's comprehensive teenage pregnancy prevention programs; evaluation of California's Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT)
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She has served on numerous boards, including the Executive Committee of Legal Services of New York, the Puerto Rican Policy Institute, and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice. She served as chair of the Latino Child Welfare Collaborative, a project of the Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, and was a member of the Children's Defense Fund's New York Advisory Board and a co-chair of Agenda for Children Tomorrow (ACT)
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This work has been published in Child Development, Developmental Psychology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, American Educational Research Journal, and Journal of Marriage and Family and supported by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) , the William T
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, a longitudinal study of more than 20,000 teens who are being followed into adulthood. Under her leadership, the study has pioneered innovative study designs and integrative multidisciplinary research to understand social, environmental, behavioral, biological, and genetic linkages in developmental and health trajectories from adolescence into adulthood.
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He heads two national policy centers focused on adolescents and young adults: the National Adolescent Health Information and Innovation Center and the Public Policy Analysis and Education Center for Adolescent and Young Adult Health. His current health services research focuses on improving preventive screening practices in clinical settings and the financial and structural issues altering adolescents' and young adults' ability to access health care in the United States.
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Her work has informed three Supreme Court decisions related to extended sentences for juveniles, pediatric practice (National Alliance to Advance Adolescent Health) , and education.
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He collaborates in research with a diverse global team of computational, informatics, and other IBM scientists to advance population health improvement through health systems and health care innovation. Previously, he served as IBM vice president for integrated health services and led in the areas of health policy and strategy, health benefits and clinical care program design, occupational and behavioral health, wellness, safety, and productivity for IBM globally.
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His work draws on literature in communication science, social epidemiology, and social and health behavior sciences and focuses on the use of translational communication science to influence public health policy and practice. He focuses in particular on elucidating the relationship between communication inequalities and disparities in public and individual health in diverse populations and the implications for the use of knowledge translation to influence public health practice and policy.
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