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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Pages 67-80
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His research interests are in the extraction of inter nnual climate a variability signals from remotely sensed vegetation measurements, drought pattern analysis, applications of remotely sensed data in agricultural monitoring, drought and famine early warning, and the links between climate and disease outbreaks. His current work supports ongoing research and development collaborations with the U.S.
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In addition, three PAHO/World Health Organization technical centers are under Dr. Becerra's responsibility: the Latin American Center for Perinatology -- Women and Reproductive Health, the Pan American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Center, and the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information.
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SCOTT F DOWELL, M.D., is a pediatric infectious disease specialist by training, now focusing on tracking the causes of global childhood mortality for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Dr. Dowell served as the director of the Division of Global Disease Detecion t and Emergency Response from 2009–2012 and led the agency's Global Health Security Agenda from 2012–2014.
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His main areas of focus include vaccines, disease surveillance, and global health policy. He has previously worked for national public health agencies and international public health organizations in Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia, and he regularly responds to major public health emergencies.
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and public health (global health) at Emory University's School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health and serves as a senior advisor to the Emory Center for Global Safe Water.
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Hughes's career is on building partnerships among the clinical, research, public health, and veterinary communities to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious diseases and improve health at the local, national, and global levels. His research interests include emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases; antimicrobial resistance; food-borne diseases; health care–associated infections; vector-borne and zoonotic diseases; the rapid detection of and response to infectious diseases and bioterrorism; strengthening public health capacity at the local, national, and global levels; improving immunization coverage; and preventing water-related diseases in the developing world.
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King leads the center's activities for surveillance, diagnostics, disease investigations, epidemiology, research, public education, policy development, and disease prevention and control programs. NCZVED also focuses on waterborne, food-borne, vectorborne, and zoonotic diseases of public health concern, which also include most of the CDC's select and bioterrorism agents, neglected tropical diseases, and emerging zoonoses.
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Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Resolution Management to develop descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics for equal employment opportunity complaints. She has led work using natural language processing, using R, R Shiny, and Python, as well as full-scale Web application development using Elasticsearch, Amazon Web Services, and multiple open-source technologies.
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Dr. Relman received the Squibb Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2001 and was the recipient of both the NIH Director's Pioneer Award and the Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in 2006 as well as a Transformative R01 Award from NIH in 2013.
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In parallel with his studies, Dr. Sadilek has done research and development work at eBay Research Labs, Google, and Microsoft Research, where he focused on optimization and novel applications of machine learning in the context of big data.
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He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He was elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Family Medicine and serves on the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund Commission for a High Performance Health System, the Council on Health Research for Economic Development, and the ational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Board on N Population Health and Public Health Practice.
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His research involves the development and application of statistical methods for spatially referenced data, including applications in environmental justice, neurology, epidemiology, disease surveillance, conservation biology, and disease ecology. He has published in a variety of biostatistical, statistical, environmental health, and ecology journals and is co-author with Carol Gotway of the text Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data (2004, Wiley)
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