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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PANEL MEMBERS AND STAFF
Pages 257-264

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From page 257...
... He is also executive director of a Canadian nonprofit organization formed at the request of the Canaclian government to undertake a twoprovince test of a wage subsidy program for single parents receiving public assistance. Previously, he was executive deputy ad 257
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From page 258...
... THOMAS D COOK is professor of sociology, psychology, education, and public policy at Northwestern University, where he is also a faculty research associate at the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research.
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From page 259...
... Her current work focuses on school-based youth and family resource centers. Dryfoos serves on many advisory panels concerned with youth, including the Carnegie Task Force on Youth Development and Community Programs, Children's Initiative of the New York State Community Aid Association, and Girls Inc.; she was also recently appointed to the Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Block Grant Advisory Council of New York.
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From page 260...
... RICHARD B FREEMAN is program director of the Program in Labor Studies of the National Bureau of Economic Research, professor of economics at Harvard University, and executive programme director of the Comparative Labour Market Institutions Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics.
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From page 261...
... His areas of research include adolescent and young adult development, the social psychology of problem behavior, and psychosocial aspects of poverty. lessor has been a consultant to numerous organizations, including the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Health, and Welfare, Canada; and the World Health Organization.
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From page 262...
... Trained in pediatrics and epidemiology, she now devotes her energies to health services research and its translation into health policy at the national, state, and local levels. Her primary research interests are in primary care measurement, the relationship between the processes and outcomes of health care, quality of care, health status measurement {particularly for adolescents and children)
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From page 263...
... His current research examines adolescent development as it occurs in schools and community-based youth programs. He also collaborates with community leaders and program managers nationwide to strengthen services on the basis of theory and research on youth development.
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  • adolescent health
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  • urban affairs
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  • health status

  • social psychology
  • labor market
  • medical college
  • school failure
  • strengthen services

  • published widely
  • local levels
  • carnegie task
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  • girls inc
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