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Appendix C: Committee Biographical Sketches
Appendix C: Committee Biographical Sketches
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or co-investigator on numerous research studies funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute; the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; the National Cancer Institute; and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute with nearly $20 million in active grant funding. She also serves as co-PI of the ADVANCE Clinical Data Research Network, part of PCORnet, which is "horizontally" integrating electronic health record data, creating a unique community laboratory to include disadvantaged and vulnerable patients across the country.
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Cynthia García Coll, Ph.D., is currently an adjunct professor in the Pediatrics Department at the University of Puerto Rico Medical School and the Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor Emerita at Brown University. Previously, Dr.
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In related work, she has examined the dynamics of participation in child care subsidy programs in Maryland, Minnesota, and Oregon and advised state and federal agencies on child care subsidy policy. Her other research has examined the impact of local competition on wages and job turnover in the retail food industry, income equality, and the relationship between local labor market conditions and employment outcomes for disadvantaged workers.
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In particular, she has been engaged in addressing how to best ensure excellence for young diverse learners, especially black children, such as through development of a classroom observation measure, public policies, and publications geared toward early education practitioners and policy makers. She has served on numerous national boards and committees, including the National Academies' Committee on Supporting the Parents of Young Children and the National Research Conference on Early Childhood.
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committees: Committee to Reexamine IOM Pregnancy Weight Guidelines and Committee on Understanding Premature Birth and Assuring Healthy Outcomes.
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Amy Rohling McGee, M.S.W., has served as the president of the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, a nonpartisan, independent, nonprofit organization that provides information and analysis to state policy makers, since 2010. Her prior public-sector experience includes work in the executive branch of state government focused on policy related to issues such as health insurance, health system improvement, health information technology, and Medicaid.
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She has provided trainings to tribal health department staff, tribal research teams, and urban Indian service delivery teams. She has also provided indigenous health research training to University of Washington students, from undergraduates through Ph.D.
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He currently serves on the Board on Children, Youth, and Families and has previously served on the National Academies' Committee on Improving Health Outcomes for Children with Disabilities and Committee to Evaluate the Supplemental Security Income Disability Program for Children with Mental Disorders, as well as earlier committees on long-term care quality, disability in the United States, and the evaluation of federal health care quality activities.
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Dr. Wright was a principal investigator on the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, the first randomized trial assessing the impacts of health insurance expansion, and currently oversees a portfolio of research on the impact of social needs and adversity on health and health care outcomes in vulnerable populations.
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