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Appendix A: Committee Member Biographies
Appendix A: Committee Member Biographies
Pages 109-118
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Global AIDS Coordinator at the inception of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief; and Associate Dean at the Foreign Service Institute. He was Ambassador to Botswana from 1999 to 2002 and simultaneously served as Special Representative to the Southern African Development Community.
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Rifat Atun, M.B.B.S., M.B.A., FRCP, is a professor of global health systems at Harvard School of Public Health and the director of the Global Health Systems Cluster. He is an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and in 2006-2013, he was a professor of International Health Management at Imperial College London.
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Dr. Atun studied medicine at University of London as a Commonwealth Scholar and subsequently completed his postgraduate medical studies and Masters in business administration at University of London and Imperial College London.
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Army Medical Corps at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA., where he managed a large ambulatory care service as chief of the Acute Illness Clinic and a attending physician within the Department of Emergency Medicine. Later, he was assigned to Walter Reed Army Medical Center where he served as chief of emergency medicine.
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Dr. Brock's primary research interests are global health, interprofessional education, capacity building, human resources for health, technologyenhanced learning, curriculum development, medication access, rational medicines use, and pharmacovigilance systems.
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From 2007 to 2011, he served as the founding president of the ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth and during this period was also the chair of the Governing Council of IFMR Trust and board chair of FINO, both leading participants in the field of financial inclusion in India. While at ICICI he also served as a board member of Wipro for 5 years and board chair of the Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India for 2 years.
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Dr. Ross was founding director of the Information Network for Public Health Officials, CDC's national initiative to improve the information infrastructure of public health.
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Her research includes community participatory research methods, addressing health disparities, improving pregnancy outcomes, violence prevention, health literacy, and culturally appropriate delivery of health care. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
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Before IHI, Dr. Twum-Danso held several leadership positions at the Task Force for Global Health in Atlanta, Georgia, during which time she worked collaboratively with the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Food Program, pharmaceutical companies, and various international nongovernmental organizations to reduce the public health burden of onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis and soil-transmitted helminth infections in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
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