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Appendix B: Committee and Speaker Biosketches
Pages 107-116

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From page 107...
... Examples include investigating perspectives and motivations of non-vaccinating online influencers, designing a targeted social media inter­vention with "mommy bloggers" to help social media users lower their risk for breast cancer, and leveraging MeetUp groups and the Waze mobile application to move people to action around flu vaccination and HIV testing, respectively. Most recently, she acted as director for the award-winning How Right Now/Que Hacer Ahora campaign, which is aimed at increasing people's ability to cope and be resilient amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
From page 108...
... STEPHANIE SOLOMON CARGILL is associate professor of health care ethics at Saint Louis University, with a focus on research ethics. Solomon Cargill's empirical and theoretical research explores the ethical and policy issues that face research review boards like Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)
From page 109...
... The combination of her community-based and epidemiology expertise strengthens the effectiveness of her leadership for this component. She builds on the synergy between her community-engaged work and cancer epidemiology research to reduce health disparities and promote health equity.
From page 110...
... His research program is focused on the accurate description and more complete under­standing of population health patterns and trends in the United States. He is currently serving as director of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health)
From page 111...
... She directs the NCHS Data Linkage program, leading agency efforts to integrate NCHS data collection systems with external sources of health-related administrative data, to both expand the analytic potential of NCHS data and to develop innovative data resources that better inform public health policy and fill critical information gaps. She also oversees the development
From page 112...
... KATIE O'DOHERTY is a senior research director in the Health Sciences Department at NORC at the University of Chicago. Her expertise is in managing complex data collection projects that integrate biomeasure collection and cognitive assessments into survey research, including NIH projects such as the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project, the Abecedarian Project at Midlife, and High School and Beyond.
From page 113...
... have been recognized with the Baltes Distinguished Research Award and the Mentoring Award from Division 20 of the American Psychological Association, Positive Health Award from the International Network of Positive Psychology, Murray Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Network for Personal Meaning, and Matilda White Riley Award from the National Institute on Aging. SUNITA SAH (Steering Committee Member)
From page 114...
... Louis. She also serves as co-director of the Center for Community Health Partnership and Research at the Institute for Public Health, is an associate member of the Siteman Cancer Center, a faculty affiliate of the Department of African and African-American Studies, and the Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies.
From page 115...
... LINDA WAITE is the George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Senior Fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago. She is principal investigator of the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP)
From page 116...
... Her role has covered many aspects of the HILDA Survey Project, including fieldwork contract management, weighting, and imputation. DAVID WEIR is a research professor in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan and director of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS)


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