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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Pages 97-120
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Currently, he conducts research on the impact of poverty and HIV/AIDS on children's development in South Africa (in collaboration with the Human Sciences Research Council) and on school- and community-based interventions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee)
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Abubakar was instrumental in developing various culturally appropriate measures of child development currently in use in almost 10 African countries. She was also 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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Alarcon has led several social development projects, including the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public policies and intersectoral and inter-institutional coordination, as well as designing and managing public–private partnerships in the social area. Prior to her work as Deputy Secretary for Childhood, she was a United Nations policy adviser to the Office of the Mayor of Bogotá on strengthening social organizations.
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. In Ghana from 2001–2003 he served as lead economist of a mini-consultative group of donors and provided leadership in the design of the Multi-Donor Budgetary Support System, participated in the design of the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy in 2001–2002, and in 2008–2010 was lead advisor in the design of Ghana's Oil and Gas Revenue Management legislation.
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, Toronto, the co-director of the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health, and founding director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at the Aga Khan University, unique joint appointments. He also holds adjunct professorships at the Schools of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)
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Ms. Birungi has more than 15 years of professional and program technical management experience in early childhood development, community health and child protection, providing technical and thought leadership and support to programs to ensure technical quality, comprehensive and coordinated programming, and quality service provision.
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Ms. Conn participates in United Nations roundtables focused on child protection, is a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and has hosted journalists from the BBC, CNN, and The New York Times to bring attention to the restavek issue around the world.
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Dr. Darmstadt was formerly associate professor and founding director of the International Center for Advancing Neonatal Health in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Dr. Diaz is the director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, a unique program that provides comprehensive, integrated, interdisciplinary primary care, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, dental services, and health education services to teens for free.
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. In the past, he has served AAU in various capacities: vice-president for research and graduate studies, head of department of biology, associate dean for research and graduate studies, and director of Addis Ababa University Press.
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He is involved with policy formulation and advocacy work on children's issues. He serves as a board member and board chair of six NGOs, including the Canadian Christian Relief and Development Association; is an advisory member of the Firelight Foundation; is a member of the International AIDS Society in the United States; and serves as a parental committee member of various schools in Addis Ababa.
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Dr. Heymann is founding director of the WORLD Policy Analysis Center, the first global initiative to examine health and social policy in all 193 United Nations nations.
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Heymann held a Canadian Research Chair in Global Health and Social Policy at McGill University where she was the founding director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy. While on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, she founded the Project on Global Working Families.
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He has held many visiting positions at universities and research institutes in Canada, China, Europe, Hong Kong, and the United States, including as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States. Moreover, he has given numerous colloquia and seminar lectures and organized numerous conferences, symposia, and workshops all over the world.
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He is co-leader of an initiative to support child development research capacity building in Africa and is a co-convener of the African Scholars in Child/Early Child Development Workshop series. He is a member of the Society for Research in Child Development, the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, and the American Educational Research Association.
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She formerly served on the BCYF Committee on the Impact of Mobility and Change on the Lives of Young Children, Schools, and Neighborhoods and the planning committee on Investing in Young Children Globally. She also has served as president of the Society for Research in Child Development and president of Division 7 (Developmental)
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From 2005–2008, Dr. Molina Milman was a member of the Knowledge Network in Early Childhood Development World Health Organization Social Determinants of Health Commission.
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Alan Pence, Ph.D., is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization chair for early childhood education, care, and development at the University of Victoria, and professor, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include historical, cross-cultural, international, and post-structural perspectives regarding young children's care and development.
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topics, as well as authored or edited 11 books and 4 special issue journals. He is the former director of the School of Child and Youth Care, University of Victoria, and established three specialized units: the Unit for Early Years Research and Development; the First Nations Partnership Programs for Community-Based Aboriginal Child and Youth Care Education; and the Early Childhood Development Virtual University, focusing on ECD leadership promotion and capacity building in the Majority (Developing)
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Before joining the Jacobs Foundation in 2006, he worked at the Volkswagen Foundation in Hannover, Germany, which is the largest private research funder, and as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in Berlin, Germany. He holds graduate degrees from the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany, and the University of Maryland, College Park, in the United States.
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research consortium that includes the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and institutions in Malawi. He has also been the principal investigator of the HIV Prevention Trials Network and the HIV Vaccine Trials Network NIH-funded projects in Malawi.
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She has worked in Latin America, Micronesia, and Southeast Asia with organizations, foundations, institutions, businesses, and governments to address global development issues from the policy realm to impacts at the community scale with an emphasis on innovative opportunities and partnerships. Her research lies at the intersections of urban planning and global health, with a particular focus on community- and technologybased approaches to development where communication and education are equally critical for dissemination and development.
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He has more than 350 publications and is a recipient of the Prize of Belgium's Secretary of Foreign Trade, a Fulbright grant, and the Dudley Seers Prize. He holds graduate degrees in business engineering, economics, and philosophy (Université Catholique de Louvain)
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