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Appendix C: Speaker and Moderator Biographies
Pages 193-210

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From page 193...
... He has been working for the immunization of Indian children through a series of large multi-center studies that address performance of pulse polio immunization programs, injection practices, and safety in India, the safety of vaccines administered under the Universal Immunisation Programme (Government of India) , including Pentavalent, and cold chain infrastructure in the country.
From page 194...
... She was trained in infectious disease epidemiology and public health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Her research interests include vaccine safety and vaccine-preventable diseases (specifically meningococcal and pneumococcal invasive infections)
From page 195...
... Daniel J Carucci, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., is the global medical director for McCann Health's new Global Health offering, providing strategic and technical support for health communications programs that focus on the needs of women and children in the developing world.
From page 196...
... Dr. Carucci is the former vice president for global health at the United Nations Foundation, and he is the former director of the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative at the Foundation for NIH.
From page 197...
... Dr. Goad is the vice president for the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, the former chair for the International Society of Travel Medicine Pharmacist Professional Group, and the former president for the California Immunization Coalition and the California Pharmacists Association.
From page 198...
... Dr. Hotez served previously as the president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and he is the founding editor-in-chief of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
From page 199...
... Dr. Hsu has been the principal investigator for a number of qualitative and mixed-method studies, including the evaluation of the Immunity Community intervention, an innovative approach to addressing vaccine hesitancy using concepts drawn from social marketing.
From page 200...
... In Sierra Leone, he contributed to establishing the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance study site and supported the evaluation of Sierra Leone's implementation of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants. Before joining CDC, he served as a senior research and an evaluation manager with FOCUS1000, a nongovernmental organization in Sierra Leone, where he led mixed-method assessments on reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health.
From page 201...
... His current work and interests include development and evaluation of systems for real-time data visualization, geospatial analysis, development of auto-generated programs to disseminate public health messages through short message service and voice messages, and other digital applications for improving maternal and child health, including vaccination coverage. He has published more than 40 papers with an h-index of 22, and heavily advocates for mobile phone–based interventions for improving coverage of vaccine-preventable diseases in lower- and middle-income countries.
From page 202...
... Following this she worked at both the national and local level of the newly developed National Institute for Health Research Primary Care Research Network before moving to the National Immunisation Team at Public Health England in 2013. Initially, the main responsibility of the role was to coordinate the evaluation and help support the sites piloting the implementation of the childhood flu program.
From page 203...
... Lurie was the Paul O'Neill Professor of Policy Analysis at RAND, where she started and led the public health preparedness program and RAND's Center for Population Health and Health Disparities. She has also had leadership roles in academia as a professor of medicine and public health at the University of Minnesota; as the medical advisor to the commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Health; and as the principal deputy assistant secretary for health at HHS.
From page 204...
... Sean O'Leary, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist, an investigator at the Adult and Child Consortium for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science, and the director of the Colorado Children's Outcomes Network, Colorado's pediatric practice-based research network. After completing college at Brown University and medical school at The University of Texas at Houston, Dr.
From page 205...
... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and is the vice chair of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (the Red Book Committee) of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
From page 206...
... Department of Health and Human Services' National Vaccine Advisory Committee from 2009 to 2013, where he served on the adult immunization, vaccine safety, and health care worker immunization working groups, and chaired the immunization infrastructure working group. He also served for more than 10 years as AMA's liaison to the U.S.
From page 207...
... Dr. Tan also serves, or has served, on the National Quality Forum's Adult Immunizations Expert Committee, the Pharmacy Quality Alliance's Adult Immunization Working Group, and numerous national and international expert and technical advisory committees, including panels for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, The Joint Commission, and CDC on issues ranging from vaccine hesitancy to immunization quality measurement development, adult immunizations, and immunization access and delivery.
From page 208...
... His primary research is in documenting the relationship among communication inequalities, poverty and health disparities, and knowledge translation to address health disparities. He has written more than 250 journal articles and book chapters concerning communication inequalities and health disparities, knowledge translation, public health communication campaigns, e-health and the digital divide, public health preparedness, and the delivery of health communication interventions to underserved populations.
From page 209...
... He was elected as a fellow of the International Communication Association (2011) , the Society for Behavioral Medicine (2008)


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