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Appendix D: Speaker and Panelist Biographies
Appendix D: Speaker and Panelist Biographies
Pages 109-122
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She is also a lecturer at the Health and Community Development Program of Jordan and the School for International Training Study Abroad Program. Michael Callahan is a physical scientist boarded in both internal medicine and infectious diseases and is a Diplomat of Mass Casualty Care and Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (UK)
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Also while at DARPA, he launched Prophecy, the international physician Early Alert network, which delivers 24/7 emergency consultation, reagents and therapeutics for catastrophic (mass-casualty or HDP) infectious disease outbreaks, severe acute respiratory syndrome Hong Kong and H7N9 Nanjing.
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Louis "Tony" Cox is president of Cox Associates, a Denver-based applied research company specializing in quantitative health risk analysis, casual modeling, advanced analytics, and operations research. Since 1986, Cox
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"for applications of operations research and risk analysis to significant national problems." He is a member of the Academies Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications (BMSA) and a member of the Academies Standing Committee on the Use of Public Health Data in Food Safety and Inspection Service Food Safety Programs.
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Dr. Finkel has pioneered methodological improvements in human health risk assessment and cost– benefit analysis for the past 25 years, primarily in the areas of quantitative uncertainty analysis, accounting for interindividual variability in susceptibility, and designing regulatory processes to maximize stakeholder input and shed light on economic impacts.
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. He previously served as the assistant director-general for health security, the special adviser on pandemic influenza to the director-general, and director of the Global Influenza Programme.
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He has extensive global and national public health experience with health security and emerging infectious diseases, including field investigations and research, capacity building and preparedness, communications, surveillance, and with international governance and frameworks such as the International Health Regulations, the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework and the Codex Alimentarius. He is currently focusing on shaping the global approach to antimicrobial resistance.
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Handelsman was the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and Frederick Phineas Rose Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University. She previously served on the University of Wisconsin, Madison, faculty as a professor in plant pathology from 1985 to 2009 and as professor and chair of the Department of Bacteriology from 2007 to 2009.
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Dr. Kerr leads and manages the office, overseeing a broad policy portfolio including the global health security agenda implementation, pandemics and emerging threats, antimicrobial resistance, security policy issues (biosafety and biosecurity, biothreat prevention [Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention, United Nations Security Council 1540, Global Partnership against the Spread of Materials and Weapons of Mass Destruction]
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He directs the university's World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control. His research defined the epidemiology of two novel viral epidemics, namely severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus in 2003 and influenza A (H7N9)
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In that role, she works with clients to improve their use of data to inform decision making, supports knowledge management tasks related to quality measures for health care improvement, and works with clients to assess the outcomes their programs are achieving. She is also an adjunct professor at the Ohio State University's Glenn College of Public Affairs, where she teaches courses on risk and decision analysis.
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His main research focus is public health ethics with emphasis on ethical issues associated with infectious disease. He edits a book series in Public Health Ethics Analysis for Springer and a book series in Practical Ethics and Public Policy for ANU Press.
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was appointed as the fifth president of Stony Brook University in May 2009. Since that time he has presided over a tremendous growth of the university, through the implementation of a faculty hiring program that has brought 200 net new faculty to Stony Brook, a 5-fold increase in endowed professorships, the largest number of applicants and most accomplished classes in the school's history, and record fundraising totals, including one of the largest gifts ever to a public university.
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Since 2001, Professor Vöneky has served as the legal adviser to the German Federal Foreign Office, German Federal Ministry of Research, German Federal Ministry of the Environment, and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Scientific Marine and Polar Research. Since 2012, she has been a member of the German Ethics Council, appointed on the proposal of the federal government, and was the head of the Working Group on Biosecurity of the German Ethics Council.
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