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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Pages 105-114
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She is also a senior research associate at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, research affiliate at Innovations for Poverty Action, and coordinating group member for the Sexual Violence Research Initiative. She holds a Ph.D.
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Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, she held positions at York University's Glendon Campus, Saint Paul University, and in the Canadian government. Her research focuses on age mainstreaming in migration law and policy, political participation of young refugees, and interdisciplinary methodology in contexts of forced migration.
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migration; immigrant parent involvement in schools in New York, Chicago, and Nashville; deportation and its effects for immigrants; the Great Recession and its consequences for Mexican workers; and gender and migration. Her recent book is Gender and International Migration: From Slavery to Present, and, together with Douglas Massey, she published a special issue of The ANNALS of The American Academy of Political and Social Science on undocumented migration.
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He was professor and the founding director of the Center for Research on Population and Health at the American University of Beirut and served on the faculties of Syracuse University, Birzeit University, and Yale University. He was a cofounder and vice president of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, a research coordinator at Fafo in Norway, an elected council member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, advisory board member of the Applied Health and Development Research Network, and founding member of the Arab Council of Social Sciences and the Middle East Health Policy Forum.
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She currently leads a big data initiative, studying indicators of forced displacement funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada and a collaborative social work project with the School of Social Work at the University of Rwanda. She is a coapplicant on a project exploring the potentials of digital assistive technology and special education in Kenya and coprincipal investigator to study the health outcomes of Syrian refugees in three Canadian provinces.
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She serves as research fellow at The Tower Center for Political Studies and Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center (both at Southern Methodist University) , and at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, as well as adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
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is an associate professor in the Population Program and the Geography Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, associate director of the University of Colorado Population Center, and faculty affiliate in the Latin America Studies Center and the Department of Sociology at the same institution. His research aims at explaining trends and heterogeneity in the chronic and mental health of Latin American immigrants in the United States.
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Awards and honors include Tulane's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Teaching Award, the school's award for Outstanding Commitment to Students' Needs, the National Institutes of Health's Matilda White Riley Distinguished Lecturer Award, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Vietnam. He is a regular reviewer of grant proposals submitted to the National Institutes of Health and has served on several editorial boards.
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He regularly advises UN agencies, governments, and donors on issues of child protection and psychosocial support, including in communities and schools. Throughout Africa and Asia, he helps to develop community-based, culturally grounded programs that assist people affected by armed conflict and natural disasters.
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