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Appendix A: Committee Biosketches
Pages 107-112

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From page 107...
... His previous National Academies service includes as a member of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology; the chair of the Committee on Improving Risk Analysis that produced the report Science and Decisions; the chair of the Committee on Human Biomonitoring for Environmental Toxicants; and a member of the Committee on Science for EPA's Future. He is a fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, an honorary member of the Society of Toxicology, and a lifetime national associate of the National Academies.
From page 108...
... He is the vice president and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Electrostatic Precipitation; serves on the Mitigation and Control Technology Working Group of the American Association for Aerosol Research; and is the co-founder and acting chief executive officer of the startup company Taza Aya LLC. He has served on numerous National Academies' committees, addressing environmental issues ranging from the implications of changes to the regulations governing power plant emissions to the safe and ethical thermal destruction of conventional munitions and chemical warfare agents by the U.S.
From page 109...
... Davis is a distinguished professor of landscape ecology and conservation planning at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also serves as the executive director of the Long Term Ecological Research Network Office, and the director of the La Kretz Center for Research at Sedgwick Reserve.
From page 110...
... Her research examines structural determinants of community environmental health with a focus on social inequality and psychosocial stressors and how these factors interact with multiple environmental hazard exposures to produce health inequalities. Her work explores this question in the context of environmental chemicals, climate change, air pollution, and effects on perinatal, maternal, and children's health, often using community-based participatory research methods.
From page 111...
... Reilly Center for Environmental Policy at American University, the United Nations Environment Programme's High Level Advisory Group for the 6th Global Environment Outlook, a monthly sustainability columnist for www.greenbiz.com, and an opinion contributor to The Hill. His range of expertise includes business strategy, climate change, global plastics waste, economic development strategies, environmental protection and energy policies, institutional governance and management, emerging issues analysis, science policy, and risk assessment.
From page 112...
... His major research interest is to use cheminformatics tools to develop predictive models. All resulting models can be used to directly predict the chemical toxicity, based on public big data and molecular structure information.


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