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Appendix B: Speaker and Moderator Biographies
Appendix B: Speaker and Moderator Biographies
Pages 77-86
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Benkhedda has worked in several areas, including nutrition research, nutrition premarket assessment of supplemented foods, novel foods, food additives, fibers, and health claim substantiation. She has been extensively involved in policy and regulatory work related to supplemented foods and health claims and developing guidance on scientific requirements for health claim substantiation.
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Dr. Beyene's research interests focus on methodology development for evidence synthesis with application to public health sciences and clinical medicine; integrative statistical methods for high-dimensional data with emphasis on "multi-omics" studies; and general statistical methods for clinical trials and observational study designs.
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Russell Jude de Souza, Sc.D., R.D., is a registered dietitian and associate professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University. His nutritional epidemiology research program addresses the role of diet in chronic disease prevention throughout the lifespan, methodological issues related to study design, evidence synthesis and quality of evidence, and developing and applying state-of-theart and established approaches to assessing food/diet-health associations.
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Gebauer worked at the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, where she conducted highly controlled dietary interventions to investigate the relationship between food/food components and risk of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
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, during which time chronic disease endpoints were formally included in the DRIs framework, the sodium and potassium DRIs were reviewed, and a review of macronutrient requirements was initiated. She is actively involved in policy work related to food fortification, food labeling, and vitamin supplements.
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She is involved in international, regional, and national research and policy partnerships and networks. She leads the nutrition focus area of the Research, Evidence and Development Initiative, funded by UK aid from the UK government, and the evidence synthesis work package for the Global Evidence, Local Adaptation project in South Africa, funded by European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership, which focuses on newborn and child health guidelines in South Africa, Malawi, and Nigeria.
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Dr. Nishida also served as the head of a WHO delegation at the Codex Committees on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses and Food Labelling for the last 20 years, leading and ensuring policy coherence in the development of Codex standards and guidelines not only to protect food safety but also to improve food quality to address increasing global public health problems of obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases.
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. She is a member of the Nutrition Science Review Branch that is responsible for the premarket review of scientific evidence for health claims.
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Her research focuses on dietary intake and risk of chronic disease, including osteoporosis, cognitive decline, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and heart disease with an emphasis on health disparities. She is the principal investigator of the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study, an ongoing cohort study, to examine the roles of diet, health behaviors, stress, and genetic predisposition in relation to chronic conditions, including heart disease, cognitive decline, and bone health.
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86 USE OF META-ANALYSES IN NUTRITION RESEARCH AND POLICY University of Ottawa. His research interests are in the design and analysis of clinical trials, health technology assessment, statistical methodology related to health care delivery, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, economic evaluations, and the development and assessment of decision support technologies for patients and practitioners.
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