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Appendix C: Speaker and Facilitator Biographies
Appendix C: Speaker and Facilitator Biographies
Pages 77-86
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Multisector leadership teams attend a statewide BACI Action Institute annually.
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Weiss University Professor, professor in the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Nursing, and director of the UPenn Prevention Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania. A globally influential public health scholar whose work spans psychology, epidemiology, nutrition, and other disciplines, she focuses her research in community and health care settings on obesity, nutrition, and the built environment; reducing health disparities; and health communication technologies.
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For his leadership, Governing Magazine twice named him "Outstanding Public Official of the Year," making him the first ever to receive that prestigious award at both the local and state levels. Governor Glendening was a highly regarded professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, for 27 years, repeatedly recognized for his innovative, quality teaching and receiving the Regents' Excellence in Teaching Award.
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Her work has included the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Invest Health initiative with the Reinvestment Fund and Bennett Midland, as well as several sustainable community development projects in New York.
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She co-authored the Transportation Sector of the National Physical Activity Plan, served as expert advisor on the U.S. Department of Transportation and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Transportation and Health Tool, was appointed by Transportation Secretary Peters to the National Safe Routes to School Task Force, and has presented at a White House event on transportation and health.
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His research focuses on physical activity and public health, with particular emphasis on community interventions for promoting physical activity, the built environment and health, active transportation and health, and surveillance of physical activity. His policy and research experience includes working as a consultant for the Brazilian Ministry of Health in the development and monitoring of the national plan for combating noncommunicable diseases in Brazil and being involved in international projects, such as Project GUIA (Guide for Community in Latin America)
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. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Planning Association, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Journal of Architectural Planning and Research, Journal of Transportation and Health, and Journal of Transport and Land Use.
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Patricia Smith, J.D., serves as the senior policy advisor for the Reinvestment Fund, a community development financial institution dedicated to creating economic opportunity for low-income people and places through the innovative use of capital, data, and partnerships. Ms. Smith is responsible for the Reinvestment Fund's federal policy agenda.
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Ms. Watkins-Tartt has worked for more than 25 years within the local public health community and brings a wealth of experience in public health administration, policy development, and community health planning and coordination. Prior to taking on the role of deputy director, she led the Division of Community Health Services, driving its strategic initiatives, including the launching of new efforts aligned with the department's strategic direction to achieve health equity.
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