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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Pages 89-104
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Abubakar has been instrumental in developing various culturally appropriate measures of child development currently in use in almost 10 African countries. She has also been involved in various projects aimed at examining the psychosocial risk factors (i.e., maternal depression, quality of home environment, and parental socioeconomic status)
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Board, is the co-chair of the Maternal and Child Health oversight committee of the WHO EMRO as well as the Global Countdown for 2015 Steering Group. He has served as a member of the Global Advisory Committee for Health Research for the WHO, the Board of Child & Health and Nutrition Initiative of Global Forum for Health Research, and was a founding Board member of the Global Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (PMNCH)
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He has actively promoted various research works, including childhood injury surveillance and intervention, adolescent health, early child development and child abuse, obesity and physical activity; intrauterine growth in Chinese infants, physical health status of new immigrant children from mainland China, growth parameters in Down Syndrome children; and safe community and healthy city, child policy and play. Nicholas Burnett, Ph.D., is the Managing Director of Results for Development.
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Burnett is currently also a visiting special professor of international education policy at Nottingham University in the United Kingdom and was from October 2014 to January 2015 Visiting Professor at the Center for International Cooperation in Education at Hiroshima University in Japan. Sophia Chan, Ph.D., is the Under Secretary for Food and Health of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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Collins, M.D., M.P.H., is Associate Director for Special Populations and director of the Office for Research on Disparities & Global Mental Health and the Office of Rural Mental Health Research at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
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Dr. Diaz is the Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, a unique program that provides comprehensive, integrated, inter isciplinary d primary care, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, dental services, and health education services to teens -- all for free.
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Dr. Lee is well known as an academic clinician, educational innovator, and research leader in Family Medicine, Health Promotion, and Disease Prevention and has particular focus on promotion of child and adolescent health through school settings linking to community and primary health care contributing models of care for school health applicable internation
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His strategic research focus is on child health policy linking health, education, and social sectors. He has been appointed as the WHO Temporary Advisor on many occasions, and was commissioned to conduct international workshops for Asian and Pacific countries on health promotion.
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, is Regents Professor, Irving B Harris Professor of Child Development and Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota.
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Emma Pearson, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological and Human Development Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam. Her research and consultancy work across Asia and the Pacific has included national evaluations of early childhood programs; establishment of country-specific Early Learning and Development Standards; advising on the scale-up of community-based early childhood education, and service on regional and national advisory boards.
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He has also contributed in the development of the maternal, newborn, and child health program for Plan International in Timore Leste and is currently the Public Health Advisor in Plan International in Lao PDR. He led a team of professionals from Plan International, Foundation for Health Promotion and Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, that developed, implemented, and documented a unique integrated methodology in improving parental ownership of early stimulation and responsive care.
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Dr. Rao has published widely on early childhood development and education, child development and educational policy, and educational psychology.
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She has published papers and reports and has served on several advisory committees in the health research arena at the national, provincial, and international level. She was awarded a Fogarty Postdoctoral Scholarship at Columbia University New York, a Medical Research Council postintern Research scholarship, and the Oliver Tambo Fellowship for Public Health Leadership in SA.
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He has worked in the area of expanded immunization program, maternal and child health at the WHO headquarters, and at country offices in Cambodia, Guyana, and the Philippines. He is now working in the Western Pacific Regional Office as Regional Coordinator, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Programs.
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Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Ph.D., is the Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. He is also the cochair of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
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Dr. Zhou's main areas of research include international migration, immigrant integration, the new second generation, ethnic/racial relations, immigrant communities, Chinese Diaspora, Asia and Asian America, and urban sociology, and she has published widely in these areas, including 14 books and more than 160 journal articles and book chapters.
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