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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Pages 107-120
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In 2015, she joined the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response in Guinea to coordinate, support, and leverage the Social Mobilization and Community Engagement pillar to implement interventions compatible with local contexts to gain community trust and participation in the overall response. Between 2015 and 2016, she was appointed as in-house social anthropologist of UNICEF in the Guinea Country Office to support the mainstreaming of social norms into both the Ebola emergency response and development programs.
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Dr. Brewer is chair of the National HPV Vaccination Roundtable and associate editor of Health Psychology Review.
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Duchin, M.D., is health officer and chief of the Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Immunization Section for Public Health, Seattle and King County, Washington, and professor of medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and adjunct professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington.
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Dr. Fagerlin has been funded by the European Union and the National Science Foundation to study how different risk communication strategies influence the public's view on infectious diseases (e.g., the Zika virus, Ebola, influenza)
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Gamhewage was assigned to coordinate all Ebola-related training for the international response according to the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response guidelines. She leads risk communication and community engagement work at the global level for WHO's responses to Zika and yellow fever.
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. Prior to her current position, she served as director of CDC's National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases and held other leadership positions across the agency's infectious disease national centers.
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She served on IDSA's Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee and currently serves on the society's Public Health Committee. In addition to her CDC position, she serves as adjunct professor of medicine (infectious diseases)
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Larson, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and director of the Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP) ; associate professor in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; associate clinical professor in the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington; and fellow at the Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security.
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She has worked more than 30 years in international development providing technical assistance in management and leadership; strategic planning, training, and facilitation skills; communication for development; and research, monitoring, and evaluation. As a public health specialist in behavior and social change, she has worked more than 15 years in sub-Saharan Africa in the areas of community-based development, nutrition and health programming, evaluation of family planning and women's health programs, strategic planning and behavioral research, and most recently in the Ebola emergency response in West Africa.
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He is a member of several international associations, including the International Communication Association and the Latin American Association of Communication Researchers. He has published numerous books, peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports, including The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change (2014)
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John Rainford, M.P.A., is the director of The Warning Project. He is the former director of Emergency and Risk Communications for Health Canada and global project lead of Risk Communication Capacity Building for the World Health Organization (WHO)
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government as well as nongovernmental organizations in matters pertaining to microbiology, emerging infectious diseases, and biosecurity. He is a member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity and a member of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Synthetic Biology Panel, and he advises several U.S.
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He has 30 years of experience in health communication, development communication, and evaluation research and has lived and worked in 29 countries. His work spans a wide range of topics, including reproductive health, maternal and child health, avian and pandemic flu, preventive health behavior, environmental communication, community capacity building, and strategic communication planning.
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She was formerly the associate editor of Communication Research Reports and is the past chairperson of both the Communication and Social Cognition Division of the National Communication Association and the Health Communication Division of the International Communication Association. She is the former senior editor of Health Communication.
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