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Appendix E: Committee Member and Staff Biographies
Pages 711-722

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From page 711...
... Agénor investigates health and health care inequities in relation to various dimensions of social inequality -- especially sexual orientation, gender identity, and race/ethnicity -- using an intersectional lens. Specifically, she uses quantitative and qualitative research methods to elucidate the patient-, provider-, and policy-level social determinants of sexual and reproductive health and cancer screening and prevention among marginalized U.S.
From page 712...
... Dr. Boyer was a member of the Adolescent Trials Network, funded by the National Institutes of Health, where she served as a lead investigator and collaborated on a number of community-based participatory research community mobilization studies to examine social determinants and structural barriers to improve HIV prevention for atrisk youth and linkage, engagement, and retention in long-term HIV health care for affected youth.
From page 713...
... Dr. Cohen's research focuses on HIV transmission and prevention, with emphasis on the role played by sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
From page 714...
... She is a member of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Global Health and former director for the National Institutes of Health–funded Center for Point-of-Care Tests for Sexually Transmitted Diseases and the International STI, Respiratory Diseases, and Biothreat Research Laboratory at Johns Hopkins. She has 50 years of laboratory expertise in microbiology.
From page 715...
... He has directed public health STD control programs in two cities (Birmingham, Alabama, and Baltimore, Maryland) ; clinical studies with operational and epidemiologic end points; clinical trials of new diagnostic tests, vaccines, and therapies for a wide variety of STD pathogens; and an internationally recognized reference laboratory for STD pathogens (Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, and syphilis)
From page 716...
... Dr. Prado's research focuses on developing, evaluating, and translating family-based preventive interventions for addressing smoking, alcohol, drug abuse, HIV/sexually transmitted infections, and obesity health disparities among Hispanic youth.
From page 717...
... Dr. Rietmeijer is a current associate editor of the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases, a consultant to the World Health Organization on developing guidelines for STI syndromic management, and a volunteer physician at the Denver STD clinic.
From page 718...
... Her recent work has been on adolescents' use of technology for sexual health information, specifically examining the North Carolina BrdsNBz sexual health text message service.
From page 719...
... She is also one of the leaders who spearheaded the research response to the emerging Zika epidemic among pregnant women in Puerto Rico, and she helped establish a multidisciplinary clinic for these women.
From page 720...
... on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. She has staffed consensus studies on promoting health equity in the prenatal through early childhood periods, reducing fatalities from alcoholimpaired driving, eliminating hepatitis B and C in the United States, and promoting health equity through community-based solutions.
From page 721...
... Hayat Yusuf was a senior program assistant in the Health and Medicine Division on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice from March 2019 through March 2020. She supported the Committee on Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States and the Committee on Addressing Sickle Cell Disease: A Strategic Plan and Blueprint for Action.
From page 722...
... General Accounting Office, where she directed evaluations and policy analysis in the area of national and public health issues (1988–1995)


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