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Appendix A: Speaker and Planning Committee Biographical Sketches
Pages 77-88

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... He was Senior Scholar at The Center for Humans and Nature, Chicago, and was a ­Fellow of the McConnell Foundation Cities for People program in Montréal, Canada. In 2018, he was awarded the Athena City Accolade by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, for his "outstanding contribution to the field of social justice and ecological sustainability, 77
From page 78...
... Bader was a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at the University of ­Pennsylvania where he was also a senior fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics.
From page 79...
... Dr. Bibbins-Domingo co-founded the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital that generates actionable research to increase health equity and reduce health disparities in at-risk populations in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and nationally.
From page 80...
... Her research has been publicized by CNN and The Guardian, among others. She has worked with the White House Council on Environmental Quality to implement President Obama's Climate Change Task Force recommendation to address climate displacement as well as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Climate Change Office.
From page 81...
... Dr. Fullilove has published numerous articles and six books including Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All, From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer on
From page 82...
... She has also held different positions with the John Bartkowski Department of Environmental Health at the Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
From page 83...
... He has published sociological research in the American Sociological Review, Theory & Society, Ethnography, the American Journal of Public Health, and Public Culture. In addition to his books and scholarly articles, Dr.
From page 84...
... He also has helped develop federal policy pro­posals, working with some in Congress and others in the executive branch, to help disadvantaged farmers and property owners. Recently, he was named 1 of 21 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship for 2020 in recognition of the substantial impact his overall professional work has had in assisting disadvantaged farmers and property owners, farmers and owners who are disproportionately African American, and other people
From page 85...
... She also worked as Program Officer at the New York State Health Foundation, and from 2004 to 2012 she co-directed the urbanism and the built environment track in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. As a public health practitioner, and in both academic and philanthropic roles, she collaborates, develops, and evaluates initiatives to improve health with people most impacted by health inequities.
From page 86...
... She manages grant-funded programs, assists with the American Indian Education initiatives, Climate Resilience Project, and Ending the HIV epidemic program at ITCA. She serves on the Arizona Indian Education Association Committee, is a member of the AIRCH Community Action Committee, and volunteers as a Community Advisor Board member for the John Hopkins for American Indian Health Mother/Daughter Program.
From page 87...
... Venable-Thomas is now focusing on ways to improve health disparities in the United States and abroad. She maintains her military service as a Major in the Massachusetts Army National Guard providing Sexual Assault Prevention Coordination, directing programs, training, and victim advocacy around sexual assault prevention.
From page 88...
... Dr. Vicenti Carpio received her doctorate in history from Arizona State University.


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