Kenneth E. Warner (Chair) is dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Professor of Public Health. A faculty member since 1972, he is also director of the university’s Tobacco Research Network. His research has focused on economic and policy aspects of disease prevention and health promotion, with a special emphasis on tobacco and health. He served as the World Bank’s representative to negotiations on the World Health Organization’s first global health treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. He also served as the senior scientific editor of the 25th anniversary surgeon general’s report on smoking and health. He is on the editorial boards of three journals, chairs the board of Tobacco Control, and was a founding member of the board of directors of the American Legacy Foundation. During 2004-2005 he was president of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and in 1989 was awarded the Surgeon General’s Medallion by C. Everett Koop. In 1996, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and in 1999 to its governing council. In 2003, at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health, he received the inaugural award for outstanding research contribution in the international Luther L. Terry Awards for Exemplary Leadership in Tobacco Control. An economist, he has an A.B. from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. from Yale University.
Thomas F. Boat (Vice Chair) is executive associate dean for the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He is immediate past director of the Children’s Hospital Research Foundation and past chairman of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics. He also
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Appendix A
Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members and Staff
Kenneth E. Warner (Chair) is dean of the University of Michigan School
of Public Health and Avedis Donabedian Distinguished University Profes-
sor of Public Health. A faculty member since 1972, he is also director of
the university’s Tobacco Research Network. His research has focused on
economic and policy aspects of disease prevention and health promotion,
with a special emphasis on tobacco and health. He served as the World
Bank’s representative to negotiations on the World Health Organization’s
first global health treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
He also served as the senior scientific editor of the 25th anniversary surgeon
general’s report on smoking and health. He is on the editorial boards of
three journals, chairs the board of Tobacco Control, and was a founding
member of the board of directors of the American Legacy Foundation. Dur-
ing 2004-2005 he was president of the Society for Research on Nicotine
and Tobacco and in 1989 was awarded the Surgeon General’s Medallion
by C. Everett Koop. In 1996, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine
(IOM) and in 1999 to its governing council. In 2003, at the World Confer-
ence on Tobacco or Health, he received the inaugural award for outstand-
ing research contribution in the international Luther L. Terry Awards for
Exemplary Leadership in Tobacco Control. An economist, he has an A.B.
from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. from Yale University.
Thomas F. Boat (Vice Chair) is executive associate dean for the University
of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He is immediate past director of the
Children’s Hospital Research Foundation and past chairman of the Univer-
sity of Cincinnati College of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics. He also
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was physician-in-chief of Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati.
A current focus is creating high-value systems of care at Cincinnati Chil-
dren’s and the College of Medicine that are more responsive to the indi-
vidual needs of patients and families. A pediatric pulmonologist by training,
he worked early in his career to define the pathophysiology of airway dys-
function and develop more effective therapies for chronic lung diseases of
childhood, such as cystic fibrosis. More recently he has worked at local and
national levels to improve research efforts, subspecialty training, and clini-
cal care in pediatrics. He has a special interest in issues posed by children’s
mental health for pediatric care and training. He is a member of the IOM
and serves as cochair of the IOM Forum on the Science of Health Care
Quality Improvement and Implementation. He has been a member of the
Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs
board of directors since 2004 and is currently board president. He has
served as chair of the American Board of Pediatrics and president of the
Society for Pediatric Research, as well as the American Pediatric Society.
He has an M.D. from the University of Iowa.
William R. Beardslee is director of the Baer Prevention Initiatives in the
Department of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston and Gardner
Monks professor of child psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is
interested in the protective effects of self-understanding in enabling young-
sters and adults to cope with adversity and has studied self-understanding
in civil rights workers, survivors of cancer, and children of parents with
affective disorders. He and his colleagues developed preventive interven-
tions designed to enhance resilience and understanding in families with
depressed parents and demonstrated long-term positive effects from these
approaches. The approach has been implemented in several large-scale
projects, including a nationwide program for children of depressed par-
ents in Finland and in programs for low-income families. He received
the Blanche F. Ittleson Award of the American Psychiatric Association,
a Faculty Scholar Award from the William T. Grant Foundation, and, in
1999, received the Irving Philips Award for Prevention and the Catcher in
the Rye Award for Advocacy for Children from the American Academy of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In 2003, he received the Agnes Purcell
McGavin Award for Prevention of Mental Disorder in Children from the
American Psychiatric Association. He serves on the Carter Center Mental
Health Task Force and on the Board of Mental Health America. He is an
active member of the IOM Board on Children, Youth, and Families (BCYF)
and served on the Committee on Adolescent Health and Development. He
currently serves on the IOM Committee on Depression, Parenting Practices,
and the Healthy Development of Young Children. He has an M.D. from
Case Western Reserve University.
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Carl C. Bell is president and chief executive officer of the Community Men-
tal Health Council and Foundation, Inc., in Chicago. He is also the director
of public and community psychiatry and a clinical professor of psychiatry
and public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is principal
investigator of Using CHAMP to Prevent Youth HIV Risk in a South Afri-
can Township. He is a member and former chairman of the National Medi-
cal Association’s section on psychiatry, a fellow of the American College of
Psychiatrists, a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Asso-
ciation, and a founding member and past board chairman of the National
Commission on Correctional Health Care. He has published numerous
articles and book chapters on mental health and African Americans. He is
editor of Psychiatric Perspectives on Violence: Understanding Causes and
Issues in Prevention and Treatment and author of The Sanity of Survival:
Reflections of Community Mental Health and Wellness. He was a member
of the IOM Committee on the Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adoles-
cent and Adult Suicide. He serves on the National Mental Health Advisory
Council of the National Institute of Mental Health. He has a B.S from the
University of Illinois and an M.D. from Meharry Medical College.
Anthony Biglan is a senior scientist at Oregon Research Institute and direc-
tor of the Center on Early Adolescence. He has been doing research for
the past 25 years on the prevention of adolescent problem behaviors. His
work has included studies of the risk and protective factors associated with
tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use; high-risk sexual behavior; and anti-
social behavior. He has conducted numerous experimental evaluations of
interventions to prevent tobacco use through both school-based programs
and community-wide interventions. He has also experimentally evaluated
interventions to prevent adolescent substance use and high-risk sexual
behavior, as well as to prevent reading failure and aggressive social behav-
ior in children. He and colleagues at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences published Helping Adolescents at Risk: Prevention of
Multiple Problem Behaviors, a book summarizing the epidemiology, cost,
etiology, prevention, and treatment of youth with multiple problems. He
also coauthored the monograph Community-Monitoring Systems: Tracking
and Improving the Well-Being of America’s Children and Adolescents and
the 1995 book, Changing Cultural Practices: A Contextualist Framework
for Intervention Research. He has a Ph.D. in social psychology from the
University of Illinois in Urbana and took postdoctoral training in clinical
psychology at the University of Washington.
C. Hendricks Brown is distinguished university health professor of epide-
miology and biostatistics in the College of Public Health at the University
of South Florida. He holds adjunct professor positions in the Depart-
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ment of Biostatistics and the Department of Mental Health at the Johns
Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also a senior
research scholar at the American Institutes for Research and a collaborat-
ing senior scientist at the Oregon Center for Research to Practice. For the
past 20 years, he has received support from the National Institute of Men-
tal Health and more recently from the National Institute on Drug Abuse
and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop statistical
methods for the design and analysis of preventive and early intervention
field trials. As director of the Prevention Science and Methodology Group,
Brown leads a national network of methodologists who are working on
the design of preventive field trials and their analysis, particularly with
advanced techniques for growth analysis, multilevel modeling, and designs
for implementation research. He is the codirector of the multisite Center
for Integrating Education and Prevention in Schools, which is now plan-
ning a large-scale randomized field trial in Baltimore. He is codirector of
the Center for Prevention of Suicide Research at the University of Rochester
and coleads randomized trials in youth prevention research. He has a Ph.D.
in statistics from the University of Chicago.
Elizabeth Jane Costello is professor of medical psychology in the Depart-
ment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical
Center and has been a faculty member of the department since 1988. She
has served as director for the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program
at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is a member of the
American College of Epidemiology and has served as council member and
chair in the mental health section of the American Public Health Associa-
tion. In 2007 she was president of the International Society for Research in
Child and Adolescent Psychopathology and a recipient of a distinguished
investigator award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizo-
phrenia and Depression. Costello’s areas of research interest include devel-
opmental epidemiology, life-span developmental psychopathology, mental
health services for children and adolescents, and clinical decision making.
She has also published numerous works in refereed journals on develop-
mental psychology and epidemiology. At the National Research Council
(NRC), Costello served on the Panel on Prevention, Treatment and Control
of Juvenile Crime. She has a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of
London, M.Phil. and B.Sci. degrees from the London School of Economics,
and an M.A. from Oxford University.
Wendy E. Keenan (Program Associate) provides administrative and research
support for BCYF and its various program committees. She also helps
organize planning meetings and workshops that cover current issues related
to children, youth, and families. Ms. Keenan has been on the National
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Academies’ staff for 10 years and worked on studies for both the NRC
and the IOM. As senior program assistant, she worked with the NRC’s
Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences. Prior to joining the
National Academies, Ms. Keenan taught English as a second language for
Washington, DC, public schools. She received a B.A. in sociology from The
Pennsylvania State University and took graduate courses in liberal studies
from Georgetown University.
Bridget B. Kelly (Senior Program Associate) first came to the National
Academies in September 2007 as a Christine Mirzayan Science and Tech-
nology Policy Graduate Fellow. She then joined BCYF as staff for the
Committee on the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse
Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults as well as the Committee on
Depression, Parenting Practices, and the Healthy Development of Children.
She has since also worked as project director for the Workshop on Strength-
ening Benefit-Cost Methodology for the Evaluation of Early Childhood
Interventions and in IOM’s Board on Gobal Health as study director for the
Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease:
Meeting the Challenge in Developing Countries. She received an M.D. and
a Ph.D. in neurobiology as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program
at Duke University and a B.A. from Williams College.
Teresa D. LaFromboise is associate professor of counseling psychology in
the School of Education and chair of Native American Studies at Stanford
University. She is most concerned about stress-related problems of ethnic
minority youth. She has developed school- and community-based pre-
ventive interventions with adolescents and is a recognized contributor to
American Indian mental health initiatives. Her current research investigates
the effectiveness of a culturally tailored suicide prevention intervention for
American Indian middle school students. In addition to this outcome study,
she is exploring the role of cumulative stress, acculturation, cultural iden-
tity, depression, and substance use in American Indian adolescent mental
health. LaFromboise has received many professional awards for the book
American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum, including recogni-
tion from the Carter Center for Public Policy, the Department of Health
and Human Services as a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration Program of Excellence, the First Nations Behavioral Health
Association, and the Mental Health/Social Service Program of the Indian
Health Service as an Outstanding Contribution to American Indian Mental
Health. This intervention has been included in the National Registry of
Effective Programs. LaFromboise lectures and teaches courses in counseling
psychology, adolescent development, and American Indian mental health
and serves on the Board of Family and Children Services in Palo Alto, Cali-
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fornia. She has a B.A. from Butler University, an M.Ed. from the University
of North Dakota, Grand Forks, and a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from
the University of Oklahoma.
Ricardo F. Muñoz is professor of psychology at the University of California,
San Francisco (UCSF), chief psychologist at San Francisco General Hospital
(SFGH), and director of the Clinical Psychology Training Program there.
He directs the UCSF/SFGH Latino Mental Health Research Program, which
develops Spanish- and English-language interventions designed to prevent
and treat major depression and makes the resulting manuals available for
download at http://www.medschool.ucsf.edu/latino/. To expand the reach
of this work, he founded the UCSF/SFGH Internet World Health Research
Center, which has as its mission developing and testing evidence-based Inter-
net interventions for several health problems (such as smoking and depres-
sion) in several languages so that participants can use them worldwide (see
http://www.health.ucsf.edu). He is coauthor of The Prevention of Depres-
sion: Research and Practice (1993) and editor of Depression Prevention:
Research Directions (1987). He received the 1994 Lela Rowland Prevention
Award from the National Mental Health Association for the San Francisco
Depression Prevention Research Project. Muñoz was a member of the IOM
committee that produced the report Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders:
Frontiers for Preventive Intervention Research. He also served on the IOM
Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. He has an A.B. from
Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon.
Mary Ellen O’Connell (Study Director) is a senior program officer in the
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) of the
NRC. She has served as study director for four previous consensus studies:
on international education and foreign languages, ethical considerations
for research on housing-related health hazards involving children, reduc-
ing underage drinking, and assessing and improving children’s health. She
also served as study director for the Committee on Standards of Evidence
and the Quality of Behavioral and Social Science Research, a DBASSE-
wide strategic planning effort; developed standalone workshops on wel-
fare reform and children and gun violence; and facilitated meetings of the
national coordinating committee of the Key National Indicators Initiative.
She came to DBASSE from the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS), where she spent eight years in the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, most recently as director of state
and local initiatives. Prior to HHS, she worked at the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development on homeless policy and program design
issues and for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as the director of field
services. She has a B.A. (with distinction) from Cornell University and an
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M.A. in the management of human services from the Heller School for
Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.
Peter J. Pecora has a joint appointment as the senior director of research ser-
vices for Casey Family Programs and professor in the School of Social Work
at the University of Washington. He was a line worker and later a program
coordinator in a number of child welfare service agencies. He has worked
with the state departments of social services to implement intensive home-
based services, child welfare training, and risk assessment systems for child
protective services. He has provided training to program leaders and staff
in the United States, Australia, Canada, Italy, Great Britain, and Portugal.
He has served as an expert witness for the states of Arizona, Florida, New
Mexico, Washington, and Wisconsin. His coauthored books and articles
focus on child welfare program design, administration, and research. He
has provided consultation regarding evaluation of child and family services
to HHS and a number of foundations, including the Annie E. Casey Foun-
dation, the Colorado Trust, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, the
McKnight Foundation, and the Stuart Foundation. In 2002 he was awarded
a J. William Fulbright scholarship in Australia. He has a Ph.D. from the
University of Washington.
Bradley S. Peterson is director of child and adolescent psychiatry, direc-
tor of MRI research, and Suzanne Crosby Murphy professor in pediatric
neuropsychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psy-
chiatric Institute. His research interests lie primarily in the applications
of neuroimaging to the study of brain-behavior associations in normal
development and in serious childhood neuropsychiatric disorders, such as
autism, Tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder, and affective disorders. He also is actively involved
in studying the long-term effects of premature birth on brain development
and neurobehavioral outcomes. His imaging studies typically aim to inte-
grate anatomical and functional magnetic resonance imaging data with
behavioral, neuropsychological, biological, and symptom measures in large
samples of participating children. He has an M.D. from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Medical School.
Linda A. Randolph is president and chief executive officer of the Develop-
ing Families Center, Inc., an innovative, nonprofit, one-stop service center
for childbearing and childrearing families in northeast Washington, DC. She
has spent her career working to make things happen at the community level
that promote the health and well-being of mothers, children, and families
and working to make needed changes in public policy. This has included
work in public health at the federal, state, and local government levels and
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in academia. She served as clinical professor of community medicine, pedi-
atrics, and psychiatry at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and is currently
visiting professor at the Georgetown University School of Nursing and
Health Studies. She serves on the board of directors of Children’s Futures,
a multimillion-dollar city-wide initiative in Trenton, New Jersey, focusing
on the healthy growth and development of children from birth to age 3. She
is also a member of the national advisory committee to the Kellogg Health
Scholars Program. Randolph has served on two previous IOM study com-
mittees: the Committee on Nutritional Status during Pregnancy and Lacta-
tion and the Committee on Improving the Disability Decision Process of
the Social Security Administration. She has a B.S. from Howard University,
an M.P.H. from the School of Public Health at the University of California,
Berkeley, and an M.D. from the Howard University College of Medicine.
Irwin Sandler is Regent’s Professor of Psychology at Arizona State Uni-
versity. He is the principal investigator of the Prevention Research Center
for Families in Stress and of the Family Bereavement Program. For over
20 years, he has been involved in the development, evaluation, and dis-
semination of programs to promote resilience for children experiencing
stressful life situations. His current interests focus on the transition of
prevention programs from successful efficacy trials to studies of effective-
ness and implementation in community organizations. His research focuses
on preventive interventions for children in high-stress situations, including
the study of mechanisms of resilience, and the longitudinal evaluation of
the effects of preventive interventions for children who have experienced
parental divorce and bereavement. He has written extensively on evidence-
based prevention and treatment, particularly the development and evalu-
ation of prevention programs based on models of resilience in response to
serious stressful life events for children. He is coauthor of the Handbook of
Children’s Coping and coeditor of The Promotion of Wellness in Children
and Adolescents. He has a B.A. from Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. in clini-
cal psychology from the University of Rochester.