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Appendix E: Biographical Information
Pages 105-114

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From page 105...
... Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. He served as the country's chief veterinary officer for 5 years and worked extensively in global trade agreements within the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization.
From page 106...
... Rita Colwell, Ph.D., is a distinguished university professor both at the University of Maryland at College Park and at the Johns Hopkins ­ loomberg B School of Public Health. Her interests are focused on global infectious diseases, water, and health, and she is currently developing an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues, including safe drinking water for both the developed and developing world.
From page 107...
... He served as the provost of the University of Rochester from 1994 to 2007. Phelps's research cuts across the fields of health economics, health policy, medical decision analysis, costeffectiveness analysis of various medical interventions, and other related topics.
From page 108...
... Edward Shortliffe, M.D., Ph.D., is a professor of biomedical informatics at Arizona State University, an adjunct professor of Biomedical ­ nformatics I at Columbia University, an adjunct professor of health policy and research (health informatics) at Weill Cornell Medical College, and a scholar in residence at the New York Academy of Medicine.
From page 109...
... Prior to becoming a member of Oracle Labs, he was an assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, a member of the technical staff at Tartan Laboratories, a senior scientist at Thinking Machines Corporation, and a distinguished engineer and then a Sun Fellow at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. He is an author or co-author of five books on programming languages and is a recipient of Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
From page 110...
... Air Force Reserves, where she served as a flight attendant on distinguished visitor airlifts. Rose Marie Martinez, Sc.D., is senior director of the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice at the Institute of Medicine.
From page 111...
... from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and was awarded the Cecil Award, the highest distinction for a staff member of the Institute of Medicine. Patrick Kelley, M.D., Dr.P.H., is senior director of the Board on Global Health and the Board on African Science Academy Development at the National Academies.
From page 112...
... Guthrie Birkhead, M.D., M.P.H., is the deputy commissioner at the Office of Public Health at the New York State Department of Health, where he is the chief public health physician. Birkhead is a graduate of the Epidemic Intelligence Service program and the preventive medicine residency program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is board certified in internal medicine and preventive medicine, and has a master's degree in public health.
From page 113...
... He is an associate editor of Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics and has served as a temporary advisor to the World Health Organization. Scott Levin, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of E ­ mergency Medicine and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering.
From page 114...
... John Spika, M.D., is the director general of the Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases at the Public Health Agency of Canada. He also serves as the health portfolio task force leader for pandemic (H1N1)


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