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Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biosketches
Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biosketches
Pages 237-252
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Foege served as the senior medical advisor for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Helene D
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She previously served as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors, a federal advisory committee to the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and she
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Her research agenda has focused on vaccine acceptance and vaccine exemption policy in the United States, zoonotic disease prevention in Peru, and HIV prevention in South Africa. She is the associate director of Penn's Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics, as well as the associate director of Penn's National Clinician Scholar Program, and the director of engagement at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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, the UNOS Ethics Committee, the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, the Human Gene Therapy Subcommittee, the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee, and several data and safety monitoring boards for National Institutes of Health clinical trials. He was a member of the presidentially appointed National Bioethics Advisory Commission (1996–2001)
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She is currently the chief research officer at the Seattle Indian Health Board and the director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, a national tribal epidemiology center serving urban-dwelling American Indians and Alaska Natives. Currently, Abigail is part of multiple committees, boards, and workgroups that are focused on ending health disparities through health equity approaches.
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from Creighton University, having completed postgraduate training in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and an M.P.H. from the University of Washington, where he was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.
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Commission on the Rights of Women, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee, and the Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Advisory Board, where he chaired the Homeland Security Advisory Committee.
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Mullen is a current member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report editorial board, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Policies for Action National Advisory Committee, and the ChangeLab Solutions Board of Directors. She is a member of the COVID-19 Expert Advisory Panel for the City of Austin, Texas, and provides COVID-19-related consultation to the Carnival Corporation.
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National Vaccine Advisory Committee, the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria -- Vaccine Innovation Working Group, the WHO Expert Advisory Group for Healthcare Worker Vaccination, and the Public Health Committee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Daniel Polsky, Ph.D., M.P.P., is the 40th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Economics at Johns Hopkins University.
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in Atlanta, where she held several scientific leadership roles. In her recent roles as a public health leader, she served as deputy director of the Influenza Coordination Unit, responsible for CDC's pandemic influenza preparedness and response activities, and she led CDC's Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, an office with a $1.3 billion annual budget and more than 900 staff members, as acting director during the 2014 Ebola response.
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government cabinet-level health advisory committees concerned with health reform, infant mortality, children's health, violence, and radiation testing; on the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health of NIH; and on the Board of Directors of LifePoint Health, a leading hospital company dedicated to providing high-value care and services to growing regions, rural communities, and vibrant small towns across the nation. He currently serves on the board of directors of Cell Therapeutics, Inc., a public corporation concerned with the development of cancer pharmaceuticals; and he is a special advisor to the chief executive officer of ViTel Net, LLC, a leading innovator in telehealth solutions.
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STAFF Lisa Brown, M.P.H., serves as the study director for the Committee on Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus and is a senior program officer on the Board on Health Sciences Policy at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Her primary interests are in health security, and she currently directs several activities on emerging infectious diseases and 21st-century health threats, evidencebased practices for public health emergency preparedness and response, and resiliency of the medical supply chain.
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and currently staffs the Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats and the Committee on Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus.
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in control of infectious diseases from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her main professional interests include biosecurity, capacity building for prevention and control of infectious diseases, and public health emergency preparedness and response.
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The board addresses the science base for population health and public health interventions and examines the capacity of the health system, particularly the public health infrastructure, to support disease prevention and health promotion activities, including the education and supply of health professionals necessary for carrying them out. The board has examined such topics as the safety of childhood vaccines and other drugs; systems for evaluating and ensuring drug safety, post marketing; pandemic influenza planning; the health effects of cannabis and cannabinoids; the health effects of environmental exposures; the integration of medical care and public health; women's health services; health disparities; health literacy; tobacco control strategies; chronic disease prevention; and other topics.
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During his tenure at the National Academies, Dr. Pope has directed numerous studies on topics that range from injury control, disability prevention, and biologic markers to the protection of human subjects of research, National Institutes of Health priority-setting processes, organ procurement and transplantation policy, and the role of science and technology in countering terrorism.
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