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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff
Pages 375-378

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... is director of the Center on Human Needs and professor of family medicine, both at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is board certified in family medicine and in preventive medicine and public health.
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... Ana V Diez Roux is a professor of epidemiology and chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, where she also directs the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health.
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... His current research focuses on socioeconomic inequalities in health, on issues related to aging and the compression of morbidity, and on the effectiveness and quality of health services. He is actively engaged in exchanges between researchers and policy analysts, among others, as a member of the Health Council and the Council for Public Health and Health Care in the Netherlands.
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... His work covers determinants of adult mortality and health disparities, adult health and mortality in low-income countries, statistical applications in population analyses, mathematical models for population dynamics, models for the analysis of self-reported health data, aging in developing countries, the effects of HIV/AIDS on families and households in sub-Saharan Africa, and the relationships between early health status and adult socioeconomic achievement and health status. His recent research has assessed the impact of selection mechanisms arising from early childhood experience on adult socioeconomic differentials in health and mortality in high-income countries.
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  • health promotion
  • population health
  • social epidemiology
  • division chief
  • community health

  • adult socioeconomic
  • development report
  • world development
  • adult mortality
  • health status

  • health disparities
  • life expectancy
  • emory university
  • psychosocial factors
  • comparative studies

  • genetic factors
  • ered divergent
  • including associate
  • actively engaged
  • regarding research

  • care services
  • sophical society
  • alternative education
  • childhood experience
  • mental illness

  • community medicine
  • ethnic disparities
  • urban health
  • behavioral sciences
  • kaare christensen


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