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Appendix E: Committee and Staff Biographies
Appendix E: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 271-279
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Shepard Science Award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Public Health Association, Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section Distinguished Career Award, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Injury and Poison Prevention, Physician Achievement Award. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
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He also served as Adjunct Professor for the School of Public Health and the School of Dentistry at the University of California, Los Angeles; Visiting Professor of Dentistry at Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery; and Distinguished Minority Visiting Professor at the Boston University Health Sciences Center. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
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She serves as a consultant on the ASTDD School and Adolescent Oral Health Committee working with experts from around the country to advocate and support efforts to improve the oral health of children and adolescents. She has worked throughout her career with Head Start in addressing access to care for pregnant women, children, and families through the development of programs including oral health education, disease prevention, and referrals to dental homes.
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He is director of the Pacific Center for Special Care and director of the California Statewide Task Force on Oral Health for People with Disabilities and Aging Californians. His research focuses on developing community-based systems for improving oral health for underserved populations; dentistry for patients with special needs, medical disabilities, and dental fear; and geriatric dentistry.
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Her research interests include access to health services, public health systems including workforce development and financing, and public health law and policy. She has chaired national work groups on academic public health practice, focusing on the translation of scholarship to policy and practice.
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She has led several surveys of children care directors' perspectives of a variety of early care and education issues, enabling investigation of systemic and pervasive child care research issues, including children's oral health status. She has also led a project on children's oral health with the Mississippi chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and has served as Principal Investigator in a 5-year AHRQ-funded study to determine to feasibility of developing an intervention to reduce dental caries of preschool children in 12 Mississippi Delta counties.
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Her research focuses broadly on poverty and health issues. Current projects examine the effect of expansions in public health insurance on health care coverage and labor force outcomes; the role of income on health using a natural experiment and using evidence from brain scans; whether housing voucher programs lead to higher earnings, higher-quality child care, and less reliance on other public assistance programs; and the increasing selectivity of high-quality universities.
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She has worked on two studies related to oral health, and recently began working on a study of geographic variation in health care spending and promotion of high value care. Before joining the IOM, she worked on health care regulatory matters at a national law firm and reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program at the New America Foundation.
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She is a policy analyst who has been a study director at the National Academies since 1987. She has directed or served as a senior staff member for more than a dozen IOM and NRC studies, including studies on vaccine finance, the public health infrastructure for immunization, family violence, child abuse and neglect, research ethics and misconduct in science, and education finance.
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