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Appendix B: Biosketches of Steering Committee Members and Speakers
Pages 55-64

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From page 55...
... In this role, she leads and engages in several crosscutting priorities focused on improving behavioral health outcomes for children, youth, and families. Prior to her role at ACF, Behsudi was director of public policy at Casey Family Programs, a national foundation focused on safely reducing the number of children in foster care.
From page 56...
... Brykman's work focuses particularly on leveraging value-based payment and other Medicaid managed care policy levers to support primary care. Her current projects include the Advancing Primary Care Innovation in Medicaid Managed Care and Medicaid Innovation ­Collaborative initiatives, through which she provides technical assistance to support states in achieving primary care and behavioral health goals.
From page 57...
... During her time at NIMH, Goldstein held leadership roles in several signature projects for the Institute, including the NIMH Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode project. She also played key roles in national suicide prevention projects, including the Emergency Department Safety Assess­ ment and Follow-up Evaluation study and the Emergency Department Screen for Teens at Risk for Suicide study.
From page 58...
... She is founder and principal consultant of PoP Health, a public health consulting practice that partners with multisector collaboratives to transform health in their communities through policy and systems change. Ilakkuvan has extensive expertise in school mental health and adolescent misuse prevention.
From page 59...
... , is assistant professor of pediatrics and director of research in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with an appointment in the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. M ­ atson studies the mechanisms by which social determinants produce health disparities in adolescent substance use, teen dating violence, and sexually transmitted infections.
From page 60...
... Matson completed her MPH in epidemiology of microbial diseases from Yale University School of Public Health and her doctoral training in infectious disease epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Erin McKnight, MD, MPH (she/her, Planning Committee)
From page 61...
... Terrinieka Powell, PhD, MA (she/her, Planning Committee) , is vice chair of inclusion, diversity, anti-racism, and equity, and associate professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
From page 62...
... He directs the Dissemination and Implementation Science Core of the Utah Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and codirects the Health Behavior Intervention, Implementation, and Translation Core of the University of Utah Diabetes and Metabolism Research Center. He is also co-director of the Community Intervention to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease in Chicago, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, which aims to eliminate health disparities in hyper­ tension for African Americans on Chicago's South Side.
From page 63...
... Prior to OSF, Taylor served as deputy commissioner for the Baltimore City Health Department, as health and social policy legislative assistant for Senator Paul Sarbanes, and as a practicing pediatrician in a federally qualified health center in Washington, DC. A board-certified pediatrician, she is a graduate of Brown University, Brown University School of Medicine, and the Georgetown University residency program in pediatrics.
From page 64...
... Her current focus is to raise awareness of and bring to national scale evidence-based interventions for preventing substance use and mental health conditions in children and adolescents. Walker-Harding is appointed to the American Academy of Pediatrics National Committee on Substance Use and Prevention, and was elected to the American Pediatric Society Council, where she is chair of the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion.


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