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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Pages 119-128

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... and UK universities and institutions on several projects dealing with urban well-being, health, and sustainable development. He teaches public health from a multidisciplinary perspective and is adjunct faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and in the Department of Global Health at The George Washington University.
From page 120...
... Dr. Corburn has received numerous awards, including the United Nations Association Global Citizenship Award, the Paul Davidoff Best Book Award, the Health Policy Investigator Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Environmental Leadership Program Fellowship.
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... She is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and has served as a board member of Livestock Science, Microbial Ecology, Frontiers in Microbiology, Microbes and Infection, mBio, and Scientific Reports. Her lab integrates data from genomics/metagenomics, microbiology, ecology, physiology, and anthropology to address broad questions about microbe–host interaction, including development of the infant microbiota, effect of the Western lifestyle, and microbiota restoration.
From page 122...
... He is a recipient of the Scientific Prize of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases; the Walter and Elise A Hass International Award by the University of California, Berkeley, for a distinguished record of service in international health; and the Princess Chichibu Memorial Tuberculosis Global Award by the Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association.
From page 123...
... Her international work focuses on laboratory-based and epidemiological studies of dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and influenza in endemic Latin American countries, particularly in Nicaragua, where ongoing projects include clinical and biological studies of severe dengue; a pediatric cohort study of dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and influenza transmission in Managua; a household transmission study of Zika; and a recently concluded cluster randomized controlled trial of evidence-based, community-derived interventions for prevention of dengue via control of its mosquito vector. She is also directing a study of Zika in infants and pregnancy in Nicaragua and evaluating a number of Zika diagnostic tests with her team in Nicaragua.
From page 124...
... His research particularly focuses on understanding the transmission dynamics and natural history of leptospirosis, which works as a model for an infectious disease that has emerged in slum environments due to the interaction of climate, urban ecology, and social marginalization. Current research combines multidisciplinary epidemiology, ecology, and translational research-based approaches to identify prevention and control strategies that can be implemented in slum communities.
From page 125...
... . Recently his team received a collaborative research fund from the Hong Kong government to study how microbes are transmitted on the surface network and indoor contact network in a large city.
From page 126...
... He is an advocate for integrated vector management and the improvement of housing as a protection against vector-borne diseases. He has an honorary chair in public health entomology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, is a co-chair of the Vector-borne Diseases and the Built Environment work stream of Roll Back Malaria, and is a member of the World Health Organization's Vector Control Advisory Group and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases.
From page 127...
... He currently directs a research training program called Global Health Equity Scholars program, a consortium of four institutions -- University of California, Berkeley; Yale University; Stanford University; and Florida International University -- which is funded by the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center, designed to provide training for U.S. and lower- and middle-income country postdoctoral fellows and scholars in slum health research.
From page 128...
... Robin Wood, D.Sc., FRS, is an infectious diseases physician, an emeritus professor of medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine. He gained his medical degree at Oxford University and completed his specialist medical training at the University of Cape Town, followed by an infectious disease fellowship at Stanford University.


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