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Appendix B: Speakers
Appendix B: Speakers
Pages 85-108
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A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, and a 2010 Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Balinska is also the author of The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread, a book described by Slate as "lively and well researched" and by The New York Times as "scrumptious." Pam Belluck is an American journalist and an author, a health and science writer for The New York Times, and the author of the acclaimed nonfiction book Island Practice. In 2015, she was a member of The New York Times reporting team that received a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Ebola epidemic.
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A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a former board member of the International Network of Public Communication of Science and Technology, Dr. Brossard is an internationally known expert in public opinion dynamics related to controversial scientific issues.
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Her research focuses on behavioral decision making, individual differences in decision-making competence across the life span, and risk perception and communication.
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in plant biology from the University of Michigan. James Cohen is the director of communications and public outreach for The Kavli Foundation, which is based in Los Angeles, California, and is dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of humanity, promoting public understanding of scientific research, and supporting scientists and their work.
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She has held many noteworthy national and international positions, including the president of the Gerontological Society of America, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.
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in organizational behavior from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Cornelia Dean is a science writer and the former science editor of The New York Times and the Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Environmental Studies at Brown University.
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Prior to joining the AHA, Ffolkes held key communications and media positions with the American Federation of Labor, Congress of Industrial Organizations, and United Negro College Fund. Preceding her work with organizations in the nonprofit sector, she spent nearly 12 years as a broadcast news editor, radio anchor, and reporter in Houston, Texas; Wilmington, Delaware; and at the Associated Press Broadcast News Center in Washington, DC.
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James Fowler is a professor in the Political Science Department and in the Global Public Health Division of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. His work lies at the intersection of the natural and social sciences, with a focus on social networks, behavior, evolution, politics, genetics, and big data.
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Dr. Gawande has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1998 and has written four New York Times best-sellers: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and most recently, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.
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Prior to his current position, he founded and was the director of the Human Factors Research Laboratory at the University of Minnesota, where he held appointments as a professor in computer science and electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, psychology, and kinesiology as well as in the Cognitive Science Center and the Center on Aging Research.
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Helmuth served as the director of digital news at National Geographic and as the science and health editor at Slate magazine, where she was responsible for Slate's imaginative science coverage, including a fascinating series on the doubling of the human life span that asked readers to share why they are not dead yet.
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. His work has been covered in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, Time, The Wall Street Journal, and National Geographic.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at The Annenberg School for Communication and the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She helped create FactCheck.org and FlackCheck.org, two nonpartisan projects of the Annenberg Public Policy Center that monitor deception in U.S.
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He is the former chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on the Application of Social and Behavioral Science Research and serves on the boards of organizations dedicated to increasing the social value of scientific research, including the Center for Open Science, Climate Central, and the National Academies' Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr.
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He has authored numerous books, most recently Spheres of Influence: The Social Ecology of Racial and Class Inequality, co-authored with Stefanie Brodmann; Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in the American Suburb, co-authored with Len Albright, Rebecca Casciano, Elizabeth Dickerson, and David Kinsey; and Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times, co-authored with Magaly Sánchez.
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, Geological Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Association of Geodesy. Her honors include membership in the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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Brendan Nyhan is a professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. His research, which focuses on misperceptions about politics and health care, has been published in journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Medical Care, Pediatrics, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Social Networks, and Vaccine.
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He began his studies in developing homologous recombination as a strategy to correct diseasecausing mutations in stem cells as definite and curative therapy for children with genetic diseases of the blood. His research program continues to focus on developing genome editing by homologous recombination as curative therapy for children with genetic diseases.
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He has been a tenured faculty member at Cornell University, a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University, and a visiting scholar at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He received an M.A.
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Scrimshaw has held over the course of her 29-year higher education career, she is a medical anthropologist and has published widely on community participatory research methods, addressing health disparities, improving pregnancy outcomes, violence prevention, health literacy, and culturally appropriate delivery of health care. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, where she was elected a member of the governing council, and served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy.
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She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan.
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Dr. Tierney received the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute's Distinguished Lecturer Award in 2006 and the Fred Buttel Award for Distinguished Contributions from the American Sociological Association's Section on Environment, Technology, and Society in 2012.
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Dr. Weingart has published more than 50 articles and book chapters in the fields of management, social psychology, industrial psychology, and cognitive psychology.
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