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Appendix D: Committee Biographies
Pages 345-352

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... One focuses on health behaviors, investigating why individuals engage in health-damaging behaviors and how their understanding of risk affects their choices. This research has primarily been in reproductive health, examining adolescent decision making regarding contraception, conscious and preconscious motivation for pregnancy, perceptions of risk of sexually transmitted diseases, and use of reproductive technologies for infertility.
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... Her research has examined the development of cardiovascular risk factors in young adults, the effectiveness of screening and diagnostic tests for cardiovascular disease, and computer-simulated projections of future cardiovascular disease trends and the impact of public health and clinical interventions on cardiovascular disease prevention. She is an inducted member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and a member of the U.S.
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... and a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and an M.D.
From page 348...
... ; it defines the criteria by which health care providers collect incentives for using electronic health records.
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... He has also established a formal affiliation agreement with the UW School of Public Health and strengthened the Institute's relationship with its partners in the GHRI health care delivery system.
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... His experience spans the private health care and public health sectors. Before joining the task force, Dr.
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... His research has examined the extent to which a broad range of social and psychological factors are linked to social status and can explain social variations in physical and mental health. He is especially interested in the complex ways in which social class and race/ ethnicity combine to affect health and in identifying the mechanisms and processes by which racism, at both the societal and the individual level, can affect the incidence, prevalence, and course of disease.


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