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Appendix E: Speaker Biographies
Pages 79-86

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... Ms. Brennan has authored or co-authored numerous publications, including Veterans Permanent Supportive Housing: Policy and Practice; Comparing the Costs of New Construction and AcquisitionRehab in Affordable Multifamily Rental Housing; The Impacts of Affordable Housing on Education; and Strengthening Economic Self-Sufficiency Programs: How Housing Authorities Can Use Behavioral and Cognitive Science to Improve Programs.
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... Elam had key responsibility for implementing critical programmatic changes related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including Medicaid expansion and the initial work that established the District's health benefits exchange. In addition, she spearheaded Medicaid long-term care reform activities designed to both right-size the program and improve the quality of benefits delivered to eligible residents.
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... Holtgrave has investigated the relationship between social capital measures, infectious disease rates, and risk behavior prevalence. He has worked extensively on HIV prevention community planning, and served as a member of the Wisconsin HIV Prevention Community Planning group.
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... highly cited scientist, a group comprising "less than one-half of 1 percent of all publishing researchers." In 2013, she received the Wade Hampton Frost Award from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association, and in 2015, she was awarded the American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professorship.
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... , and social inequalities in health. She is particularly interested in the role of health care versus broad social policy aimed at social determinants of health in reducing social disparities in health status.
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... His research, which focuses on political scandal and misperceptions about politics and health care, has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Pediatrics, Medical Care, Vaccine, Journal of Adolescent Health, and Social Networks. He is a contributor to "The Upshot" at The New York Times (since March 2014)
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... Dr. Simpson serves on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program National Advisory Council, and the editorial boards for the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research and Frontiers in Public Health Systems and Services Research.
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