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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Pages 101-114

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From page 101...
... Dr. Aerts is a member of the advisory boards B of the Global Health Group of the University of California, San Francisco; the ­ rganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Network O of Foundations Working for Development; the ITU/United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Broadband Commission for Digital Development; and the Governing Council of the United Nations Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries.
From page 102...
... Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D., is the co-chair of the Forum on Public–Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety and the immediate past president of The New York Academy of Medicine. She is now a clinical professor of global public health at the School of Global Public Health at New York University, where she is also a professor of public service, health policy, and management at the Robert F
From page 103...
... She served on the Barcelona Smart City and Expo awards jury for several years. She has also served as the chair of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme's World Urban Campaign (2014–2016)
From page 104...
... . Prior to his appointment to CDC, he was a professor of pediatrics at the Tufts University School of Medicine and the director of clinical nutrition at the Floating Hospital for Children within the Tufts Medical Center (formerly the New England Medical Center)
From page 105...
... Most recently, she convened the Urban Health Network for Latin America and the Caribbean, which focuses on promoting research, training, and policies to promote urban health throughout the region. She is the principal investigator of the Salud Urbana en America Latina/ Urban Health in Latin America study, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
From page 106...
... He was a family ­ ­ octor in inner London for many years and is a former professor of d primary health care at the University College London. His international experience includes a secondment at the World Health Organization (WHO)
From page 107...
... . He is currently a member of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Leadership Council, ­ the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, and The Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health.
From page 108...
... Ms. Marchandise-Franquet believes cities are global actors and advocates to include them systematically in high-level conferences and especially in pursuits to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
From page 109...
... Martin served as the director of the CGH Global Immunization Division, which leads CDC's global polio eradication efforts, accelerates disease control for vaccine-preventable diseases, introduces new and underused vaccines, and strengthens immunization systems.
From page 110...
... eu) study, which examines the relations between green spaces and health; and the SUMA HIA project, funded by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, on health impact assessment in low- and middle-income countries.
From page 111...
... Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He was the chief executive officer of two innovative software companies -- Enterprise Support Systems and Search Technology -- and held earlier faculty positions at Georgia Tech, the University of Illinois, the Delft University of Technology, and Tufts University.
From page 112...
... She has been a board member of the International Society for Physical ­ ctivity A and Health and of the Global Advocacy for Physical Activity council, the Urban Health Network for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the International ­ ociety for Urban Health. Her current research focuses S on ­nternational studies and includes the Urban Health in Latin America i project; the International Physical Activity and Environment Network; the International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle, and the Environment; the Stanford-Colombia Collaboratory on Chronic Disease; and the Our Voice in the City project in Bogotá.
From page 113...
... Adele Waugaman, M.A., is a senior advisor in digital health at the U.S. Agency for International Development, where she leads the development of a new strategy to guide the agency's investments in digital technologies to support global health programs and outcomes.
From page 114...
... Previously, she was the founder and the managing director of Catalyst Advisory, LLC, which provides strategic, technical, and advisory support to organizations using communications technologies to strengthen global health, humanitarian assistance, and global development efforts. Prior to that, she was the senior director of technology partnerships at the United Nations Foundation, where she managed a $30 million partnership with Vodafone that leveraged digital technologies to strengthen global health and humani­ tarian work.


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