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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Pages 71-80
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Sarah Buzogany, M.S., is the food resilience planner for the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative. She provides direct support to the food policy director 71
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Ana Diez Roux, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., is the dean and a distinguished university professor of epidemiology in the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. Before joining Drexel University, she served on the faculties of Columbia University and the University of Michigan, where she was the chair of the Department of Epidemiology and the director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health.
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Christina Economos, Ph.D., M.S., is a professor, the New Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition, and the chair of the Division of Nutrition Interventions, Communication, and Behavior Change at the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. She leads a research team studying behavioral interventions, strategic communications, and promotion of physical activity using a systems approach to reduce childhood obesity.
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Brent Langellier, Ph.D., M.A., is an assistant professor of health management and policy and a health disparities researcher using complex systems methods to understand the mechanisms that contribute to disparities and to identify policy levers to address disparities. He co-leads the systems
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Lee has served as an associate professor of international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the executive director of the Global Obesity Prevention Center, the director of operations research at the International Vaccine Access Center, an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh, a senior manager at Quintiles Transnational, and a researcher in biotechnology equity at Montgomery Securities. He has been a principal investigator for projects supported by organizations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the National Institutes of Health; the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
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She also co-led the Envision Collaborative Obesity Modeling Network, chaired the 3rd International Meeting on Social Computing Behavioral Modeling and Prediction, and chaired the federal interagency Tobacco Policy Modeling Meeting.
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Felipe Montes Jimenez, Ph.D., M.Sc., is an associate professor of the Depart ment of Industrial Engineering at Universidad de Los Andes, the d irector of the Master in Analytics program, and the director of the Social and Health Complexity Center. His work is focused on applying computational and datadriven complex systems methods for exploring the social contagious nature of chronic diseases and epidemics, and he provides expertise in applying social network analysis, system dynamics, and agent-based m odels to characterize healthy behaviors in communities for informing interventions and policy making.
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He is the founder and past president of the International Association for Worksite Health Promotion and has served on boards and committees at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; the American Heart Association; the Health Enhancement Research Organization; and others.
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Dr. Yi's specific areas of expertise are policy and community-partnered programs for urban immigrant populations, including Asian Americans; nutrition and lifestyle behaviors; and cardiometabolic disease.
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