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Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biosketches
Pages 103-118

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From page 103...
... Sloan Founda tion's Leadership in Biosecurity. Through her description of major grants that represented the foundation's investments in civilian preparedness, public health law, law enforcement, air filtering in buildings, influenza pre paredness, and business preparedness, she constructed, for a nontechnical audience, a chronicle of early gains in U.S.
From page 104...
... Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland.
From page 105...
... He remains active in the biotech community as a Senior Fellow in the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals, participating in conferences, and working with several universities as a both a lecturer and an advisor on program development. Brendan Carr, M.D., M.S., is a Professor and the System Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health System.
From page 106...
... from the Temple University School of Medicine, completed his residency in emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, then fellowships in trauma and surgical critical care as well as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar's Program, also at the University of Pennsylvania. He previously served on the faculty in emergency medicine, surgery, and epidemiology at Penn as well as the Thomas Jefferson University Health System, where he was a Professor and an Associate Dean for Healthcare Delivery Innovation.
From page 107...
... With others, he has drafted several model public health laws, including the Model State Public Health Information Privacy Act, the Model State Emer gency Health Powers Act, the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act, and the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act. Professor Hodge is a national expert on emergency legal preparedness, obesity laws and policies, vaccination laws, and public health information privacy.
From page 108...
... He advises numerous federal, state, and local governments on public health law and policy issues and has lectured extensively on diverse topics in international locations, including Sydney, Toronto, Barcelona, Geneva, and Dublin. B ­ efore joining the College of Law in 2009, he was a Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an Adjunct Professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, and core faculty at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.
From page 109...
... Food and Drug Administration's Vaccines and Related Biologics Products Advisory Committee, the NIAID Advisory Council, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of Infectious Diseases Board of Scientific Counselors. Board certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases, he holds faculty appointments at USUHS and the University of Maryland and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
From page 110...
... She participated as a member or a leader of numerous national expert groups who developed guidance related to public health disasters, social determinants of health, and community engagement, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
From page 111...
... Robin Robinson, Ph.D., currently serves as the Chief Scientific Officer for RenovaCare, Inc., directing research and development (R&D) of ­cellular therapies for wound healing and as an independent consultant to the pharma­ceutical and financial sectors in the areas of vaccine, bio­ preparedness, and infectious diseases.
From page 112...
... Dr. Robinson also served on the Senior Advisory Group for the World Health Organization on emerging infectious diseases and pandemic influenza (2006–2017)
From page 113...
... Recently she co-organized the International Workshop on COVID-19 Lessons to Inform Pandemic Influenza Response for the National Academy of Medicine and she previously spoke at a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop on medical product shortages titled COVID-19 Lessons to Inform Pandemic Influenza Response. Worldwide, she has contributed to the education of thousands of practitioners in health and humanitarian systems through the co-creation and teaching in a professional certificate program at Georgia Tech, teaching in the MASHLM program in Lugano, Switzerland, and cochairing the annual Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference.
From page 114...
... Her scholarship has appeared in leading legal and health sciences journals such as the Indiana Law J­ ournal, the Boston College Law Review, JAMA, JAMA Oncology, and Science, and has covered various topics including the regulation of ­COVID-19 countermeasures. She currently serves on the Presidential Task Force on the Use of Unproven and/or Unethical Cell & Gene Therapies for the International Society of Cell & Gene Therapy and the Black Lives Matter Advisory Committee for the Food and Drug Law Institute.
From page 115...
... , is a Senior Program Officer on the Board on Health Sciences Policy at the National Academies and develops and manages projects at the National Academies related to solving the ­nation's most pressing health security issues. She currently serves as a ­Director for the Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats and the Security of America's Medical Prod uct Supply Chain.
From page 116...
... Matthew Masiello, M.P.H., is an Associate Program Officer on the Board on Health Sciences Policy, and has supported the Committee on Reviewing the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasure Enterprise. He completed his M.P.H.
From page 117...
... McCarthy, M.Sc., is a Research Associate with the Board on Health Sciences Policy. She is currently working with the Committee on the Security of America's Medical Product Supply Chain and the Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats.
From page 118...
... Pope has served as the director of the Board on Health Sciences Policy, which oversees and guides a program of activities that is intended to encourage and sustain the continuous vigor of the basic biomedical and clinical research enterprises needed to ensure and improve the health and resilience of the public. Ongoing activities include forums on neuroscience, genomics, drug discovery and development, and medical and public health preparedness for disasters and emergencies.


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