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Appendix B
Speaker Biographical Sketches
Juma Assiago is an urban safety and youth expert with UN HABITAT. He
joined UN HABITAT in 1999, working in the area of urban safety and
youth programming. He is tasked with assisting governments and other
city stakeholders in building capacities at the city level to adequately ad-
dress urban insecurity and to contribute to the establishment of a culture
of prevention in developing countries. He has served in various United Na-
tions interagency coordinating processes and technically supported various
international youth crime prevention and governance processes. He also is
involved in developing youth safety tools and approaches in urban contexts.
His main thematic area of focus is on the use of social, institutional, and sit-
uational crime prevention measures to reduce youth crime and delinquency
in cities. He has participated and presented papers in several international
conferences on youth and children empowerment. Mr. Assiago currently is
involved in the strategic planning process of the Safer Cities Programme,
which, among others, is defining the key role of the police in urban develop-
ment and developing a network structure that takes into consideration the
governance of safety and safety in public spaces.
Theresa Betancourt, Sc.D., M.A., is assistant professor of child health
and human rights in the Department of Global Health and Population at
the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Betancourt is a member of the
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, where
she directs the Research Program on Children and Global Adversity. Her
central research interests focus on the developmental and psychosocial
consequences of concentrated adversity on children and families, resilience
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and protective processes in child mental health, health and human rights,
and cross-cultural mental health research. She is the principal investigator
of a prospective longitudinal study of war-affected youth in Sierra Leone
and is leading a mixed-methods study in Rwanda to develop and test
family-strengthening interventions for HIV/AIDS-affected youth, conducted
in collaboration with Partners in Health. In addition, she is working with
colleagues at Children’s Hospital Boston to study strengths and sources of
resilience in Somali refugee children and families resettled in the United
States. Previously, Dr. Betancourt worked as a mental health clinician in
both school and community settings and consulted on global children’s
mental health issues for various international nongovernmental organiza-
tions (NGOs) and UN agencies. She has extensive experience in conducting
research among children and families in low-resource settings, particularly
in the context of humanitarian emergencies. In 2007, Dr Betancourt was
awarded a K01 Career Development Award from the U.S. National Insti-
tute of Mental Health to study modifiable protective processes in the mental
health of refugee children and adolescents.
Arturo Cervantes Trejo, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H., serves as technical sec-
retary of the National Council for Injury Prevention and general director
of the National Center for Injury Prevention of the Mexican Ministry of
Health. He also holds the Carlos Peralta Quintero Chair of Public Health
at the Faculty of Medicine of Anahuac University in Mexico. He is board
certified by the National Council of Public Health in Mexico and is a mem-
ber of the charter class of the National Board of Public Health Examiners
in the United States. As head of the National Center for Injury Prevention,
Dr. Cervantes has coauthored the National Specific Action Program for
Road Safety, the National Specific Action Program for Violence Prevention,
and numerous analyses of morbidity and mortality from external causes
of injury for the country. Currently, he participates in the presidential task
force Todos Somos Juárez, a strategy for violence prevention and social
development for the city of Ciudad Juárez. Todos Somos Juárez is led by
the federal government with the participation of the government of the
state of Chihuahua, the municipal government of Juárez, and the city’s civil
society. The strategy includes 160 policy actions in health, labor, education,
culture, economic, and security areas undertaken to address the underlying
social and economic issues that fuel crime and insecurity in Ciudad Juárez,
Mexico’s eighth largest city and the most populous city on the Mexico-U.S.
border.
Philip J. Cook, Ph.D., is a senior associate dean for faculty and research,
professor of economics and sociology, and ITT/Sanford Professor of Public
Policy at Duke University. He has twice served as director and chair of
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Duke’s Sanford Institute of Public Policy. He has served as consultant to
the U.S. Department of Justice (Criminal Division) and to the Department
of Treasury (Enforcement Division). His service with the National Acad-
emies includes membership on expert panels dealing with the prevention
of alcohol abuse, violence, and school rampage shootings. He is currently
a member of the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Committee on Law
and Justice and was until recently a member of the Division Committee for
the Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Dr. Cook is a member
of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and an
honorary fellow in the American Society of Criminology.
Phaedra S. Corso, Ph.D., is head of the Department of Health Policy and
Management of the University of Georgia (UGA), where she is also an
associate professor. Dr. Corso has considerable public health experience
having worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
for nearly 15 years before coming to UGA. While at CDC, she served as
a management analyst, disease investigation specialist, economic analyst,
lead health economist, and prior to joining UGA, as acting chief of the
Prevention Development and Evaluation Branch. Her research focuses on
the practical application of economic evaluation for setting health policy,
specifically related to population-based public health interventions, quality-
of-life assessment for vulnerable populations, evaluating preferences for
health risks, and violence and injury prevention.
e. christi cunningham, J.D., is associate assistant secretary for regulatory
affairs at the Department of Labor. Ms. cunningham advises the assistant
secretary for policy on policy issues concerning the department’s regula-
tions and regulatory agenda. Ms. cunningham manages the regulation
production process of the department’s agencies and chairs the Regulatory
Council. Ms. cunningham came to the Department of Labor from Howard
University School of Law, where she taught a variety of subjects including
labor law, equal employment opportunity, administrative law, and torts.
She also taught international human rights for several sessions of the law
school’s summer program in Cape Town, South Africa. At Howard Law
School, Ms. cunningham was the recipient of several awards for teaching
and service. In addition to her academic pursuits, Ms. cunningham founded
the Community Antiviolence Project (CAP), a nonprofit organization dedi-
cated to building coalitions to reduce various forms of violence and to em-
power individuals in low-income communities. Ms. cunningham previously
was an associate in the New York offices of Debevoise and Plimpton and
clerk to the Honorable Constance Baker Motley in the Southern District
of New York. She is admitted to the bar in New York and the District of
Columbia.
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For more than 10 years, Rachel Davis, M.S.W., has overseen the develop-
ment and implementation of Prevention Institute’s projects related to com-
munity health and reducing disparities, violence prevention, and mental
health. In addition, she develops community tools, provides consulting
and training for various community and government organizations, and
advances the conceptual work of the organization. Ms. Davis is project
director for UNITY: Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth Through
Violence Prevention, an initiative funded by the CDC and the California
Wellness Foundation to support large cities in implementing and sustain-
ing effective preventive approaches to violence and building more mo-
mentum for such an approach nationally and in California. Previously,
she facilitated a statewide interagency violence prevention partnership in
California’s state government; evaluated community-wide violence pre-
vention efforts; co-taught a violence prevention graduate course in the
School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley; and
contributed to the Partnerships for Preventing Violence satellite train-
ing series through research, script development, facilitator training, and
project management. She has also facilitated strategic planning processes
resulting in Oxnard, California’s Strategic Action Framework for Empow-
ered, Thriving Youth (SAFETY) BluePrint, the Alameda County Violence
Prevention Initiative, Cultivating Peace in Salinas, California, and San
Mateo County’s Primary Prevention Framework for Behavioral Health.
XinQi Dong, M.D., M.P.H., is the Associate Director, Rush Institute for
Healthy Aging and an Associate Professor of Medicine, Nursing, and Be-
havioral Sciences at the Rush University Medical Center. Having emigrated
from China, he has had long standing interests in human rights and social
justice issues in vulnerable populations. Dr. Dong’s research focuses on the
epidemiological studies of elder abuse in the United States and China, with
particular emphasis on its adverse health outcomes and its relationship be-
tween psychological and social wellbeing. Dr. Dong currently is an APSA
Congressional Policy Fellow/Health and Aging Policy Fellow working with
a diverse group of policy leaders at the national, state, and local levels on
the issues relevant to elder abuse. He has been working with CDC, NIA,
and NAS on the state-of-the-science for the issues of elder abuse. More-
over, he has been working with the Chicago Wellbeing Task Force and the
Legislative Task Force to revise and ultimately pass the IL Elder Abuse Act.
Currently, Dr. Dong serves as a Senior Policy and Research Advisor for the
HHS Administration on Aging (AoA) and a Senior Policy Advisor for the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Dr. Dong is actively
working with Chinese communities to promote understanding and civic
engagement on the issues of elder abuse through innovative, culturally, and
linguistically appropriate ways. He serves on the Board of Directors for the
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Chinese American Service League, the largest social services organization
in the Midwest serving the needs of Chinese population. He is a fellow of
the Institute of Medicine of Chicago (IOMC) and a member of the Institute
of Medicine’s Forum on Global Violence Prevention. Dr. Dong is a Beeson
Scholar, and is the recipient of the Nobuo Maeda International Aging and
Public Health Research Award, the National Physician Advocacy Merit
Award, and the Maxwell A. Pollack Award in productive aging by the
Gerontological Society of America.
Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D., is a research psychiatrist at the New
York State Psychiatric Institute and professor of clinical psychiatry and
public health at Columbia University. She is a board-certified psychiatrist,
having received her training at New York Hospital-Westchester Division
and Montefiore Hospital. She has conducted research on AIDS and other
epidemics of poor communities, with a special interest in the relationship
between the collapse of communities and decline in health. Her work on
AIDS is featured in Jacob Levenson’s The Secret Epidemic: The Story of
AIDS in Black America (Random House, 2004). She is the author of Root
Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What
We Can Do About It (Random House, 2004), and The House of Joshua:
Meditations on Family and Place (University of Nebraska Press, 1999).
Her current work focuses on the connection between urban function and
mental health.
Elected in 2011, Rodrigo V. Guerrero, M.D., Dr.P.H., once again serves as
mayor of Cali, Colombia. Previously, he has held the posts of professor,
department head, dean of health sciences, and president at Universidad del
Valle in Colombia. In his previous stint as mayor, Dr. Guerrero developed
an epidemiological approach to urban violence prevention through the
Program DESEPAZ, which has been successfully applied in several cities of
Colombia and in other countries. After leaving his first mayoral post, he
joined the Pan American Health Organization in Washington, DC, where he
started the Violence Prevention Program. Dr. Guerrero has written numer-
ous articles on youth violence and violence as a health issue. In addition
to his current post as mayor, Dr. Guerrero dedicates his time to Vallenpaz,
a nonprofit organization devoted to helping rural communities in conflict-
ridden areas of Colombia. He is a member of CISALVA, the Violence
Research Center of Universidad del Valle, and the Institute of Medicine.
J. David Hawkins, Ph.D., is the endowed professor of prevention and
founding director of the Social Development Research Group at the School
of Social Work of the University of Washington, Seattle. His research fo-
cuses on understanding and preventing child and adolescent health and
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behavior problems. He develops and tests prevention strategies that seek
to reduce risk through the enhancement of strengths and protective fac-
tors in families, schools, and communities. He is principal investigator of
the Community Youth Development Study, a randomized field experiment
involving 24 communities across 7 states testing the effectiveness of the
Communities That Care prevention system developed by Dr. Hawkins and
Richard F. Catalano. He is a fellow of the American Society of Criminology
and the Academy of Experimental Criminology and a member of the IOM/
NRC Board on Children, Youth, and Families. Dr. Hawkins has authored
numerous articles and several books as well as prevention programs for
parents and families, including Guiding Good Choices, Parents Who Care,
and Supporting School Success. His prevention work is guided by the social
development model, his theory of human behavior.
David Hemenway, Ph.D., is an economist and professor at Harvard School
of Public Health (HSPH) and a James Marsh Visiting Professor-at-Large
at the University of Vermont. Additionally, he is director of the Harvard
Injury Control Research Center and the Youth Violence Prevention Cen-
ter. He was president of the Society for the Advancement of Violence and
Injury Research and, in 2007, received the Excellence in Science Award
from the Injury Section of the American Public Health Association. He has
received fellowships from the Pew, Soros, and Robert Wood Johnson foun-
dations. Dr. Hemenway has written more than 150 journal articles and is
sole author of 5 books. Recent books include Private Guns Public Health
(University of Michigan Press, 2006) and While We Were Sleeping: Success
Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention (University of California Press,
2009). Dr. Hemenway has received 10 HSPH teaching awards.
L. Rowell Huesmann, Ph.D., M.S., is the Amos N. Tversky Collegiate Pro-
fessor of Psychology and Communication Studies and Director of the Re-
search Center for Group Dynamics at the University of Michigan’s Institute
for Social Research. He is also editor of the journal Aggressive Behavior
and past-president of the International Society for Research on Aggres-
sion. His research over the past 40 years has focused on the psychological
foundations of aggressive and violent behavior and on how predisposing
personal factors interact with precipitating situational factors to engender
violent behavior. This research has included several life span longitudinal
studies showing how the roots of aggressive behavior are often established
in childhood. One particular interest has been investigating how children
learn through imitation and how children’s exposure to violence in the
family, schools, community, and mass media stimulates the development
of their own aggressive and violent behavior over time. He has conducted
longitudinal studies on the effects of exposure to violence at multiple sites in
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the United States as well as in Finland, Poland, Israel, and Palestine. These
studies have shown that simply seeing a lot of violence (political violence,
family violence, community violence, media violence) in childhood changes
children’s thinking and perceptions, and increases the risk of interpersonal
aggressive behavior later in life. He has also conducted research showing
that interventions that change children’s beliefs about the appropriateness
of conflict and aggression can be effective in preventing aggression. In 2005,
Dr. Huesmann was the recipient of the American Psychological Associa-
tion’s award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Media Psychology.
In 1990, Ivan Juzang, M.B.A., founded MEE Productions Inc., a unique
and groundbreaking research and communications company with offices
in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles. For the past two decades, Mr.
Juzang and his senior management team have tackled some of the toughest
social and public health issues across America. Mr. Juzang has become a
leading expert in the field of strategic communications and social market-
ing, and he has an exceptional knowledge of the public health, social, and
educational issues impacting underserved communities. He also special-
izes in conducting qualitative research that elicits informative, accurate,
and authentic responses, using proprietary focus group research and data
analysis methodologies he designed in order to determine the motiva-
tion and persuasion techniques that best reach and influence any target
population. In collecting and analyzing thousands of hours of qualita-
tive, grassroots research, Ivan Juzang has talked to thousands of adults
and youth living in underserved communities impacted by violence, grind-
ing poverty, and other social issues. His long track record of grassroots
community-based research began with MEE’s first groundbreaking report
on urban youth culture, The MEE Report: Reaching the Hip-Hop Genera-
tion (1992), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Mr. Juzang
also served as principal investigator (PI) for a 10-city sexuality research
study that explains how the hip-hop generation navigates its way through
sexual situations and responds to today’s sexually explicit media messages,
This Is My Reality—The Price of Sex: An Inside Look at Black Urban
Youth Sexuality and the Role of Media. He was also a PI on the research
that led to the In Search of Love dating violence report and L-Evated:
The Blunt Truth, an exploration of marijuana use and abuse in the inner
city. Moving Beyond Survival Mode, released in May 2010, is his sixth
major research report on urban culture, behavior, and communications.
This 2-year research project examined the mental and emotional needs
that lead to disastrous choices and behavioral consequences among youth.
Patrick W. Kelley, M.D., Dr.P.H., joined the Institute of Medicine in July
2003 serving as the director of the Board on Global Health and the Board
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on African Academy Science Development. Previously he served in the U.S.
Army for more than 23 years as a physician, residency director, epidemi-
ologist, and program manager. In his last Department of Defense (DoD)
position, Dr. Kelley founded and directed the presidentially mandated DoD
Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DoD-GEIS).
This responsibility entailed managing approximately $42 million dollars of
emerging infections surveillance, response, training, and capacity-building
activities undertaken in partnership with numerous elements of the fed-
eral government and with health ministries in more than 45 developing
countries. He also designed and established the DoD Accessions Medical
Standards Analysis and Research Activity, the first systematic DoD effort to
apply epidemiology to the evidence-based development and evaluation of
physical and psychological accession standards. Dr. Kelley is an experienced
communicator having lectured in more than 20 countries and authored
more than 50 scholarly papers and book chapters. He also designed and
served as the specialty editor for the two-volume textbook entitled Military
Preventive Medicine: Mobilization and Deployment. Dr. Kelley obtained
his M.D. from the University of Virginia and his Dr.P.H. from the Johns
Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Aslihan Kes, M.S., is a specialist at the International Center for Research
on Women (ICRW) where she is currently working on a research study in
Kenya exploring the economic and social costs of poor maternal health
for women and their households, as well as on a series of projects that
focus on gender and agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. Ms.
Kes has also been involved in a number of studies that examine various
dimensions of women’s asset rights in sub-Saharan Africa and their effect
on women and their households’ well-being. At ICRW she coauthored
(with Caren Grown and Geeta Rao Gupta) Taking Action: Achieving Gen-
der Equality and Empowering Women (Earthscan Press, 2005) and (with
Hema Swaminathan) “Gender and Time Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa”
(in Gender, Time Use and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Mark
Blackden and Quentin Wodon).
Stephen Lewis is board chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, distinguished
visiting professor at Ryerson University, and co-founder and co-director of
AIDS-Free World. He is a member of the board of directors of the Clinton
Health Access Initiative and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. He
also serves as a commissioner on the newly formed Global Commission
on HIV and the Law, created by United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) with the support of Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS
(UNAIDS). Mr. Lewis’s work with the United Nations (UN) spanned more
than two decades. He has served as the UN secretary-general’s special envoy
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for HIV/AIDS in Africa and deputy executive director of the United Na-
tions Children’s Fund (UNICEF) at the organization’s global headquarters
in New York. Mr. Lewis is the author of the best-selling book Race Against
Time (House of Anansi Press, 2005). He holds 32 honorary degrees from
Canadian universities, and in June 2010 he received an honorary degree
from Dartmouth College. In 2003, Mr. Lewis was appointed a companion
of the Order of Canada, Canada’s highest honor for lifetime achievement.
He was awarded the Pearson Peace Medal in 2004 by the UN Association
in Canada; the award celebrates outstanding achievement in the field of
international service and understanding. In 2007, King Letsie III, monarch
of the Kingdom of Lesotho (a small mountainous country in Southern
Africa), invested Mr. Lewis as a knight commander of the Most Dignified
Order of Moshoeshoe.
Gary Milante, Ph.D., came to the World Bank in 2003 as a researcher,
focusing on the causes and impacts of conflict and fragility as well as on
effective post-conflict recovery. His interests are in applied game theory and
modeling the political economy of peaceful compromise. Before joining the
World Development Report 2011 team, Dr. Milante held a joint position
in the Development Economics Research Group and the bank’s Fragile and
Conflict Affected Countries Group. He led the bank’s “Peace and Devel-
opment” research project focusing on successful post-conflict economic
recovery through effective power-sharing arrangements, political systems,
and macroeconomic policy. He has conducted research in Sudan and has
recently written on the upcoming referendum. Additionally, he manages
research projects on landmines and geography-of-conflict data, has written
on the Arab “democracy deficit,” and was a guest editor for a special edi-
tion on post-conflict transitions for the Journal of Peace Research.
Peggy Murray, Ph.D., M.S.W., is senior adviser for the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (IAAA) and is
responsible for IAAA’s research translation initiatives in health professions
education. She also serves as an adjunct professor at the Catholic University
School of Social Work. She is coauthor of A Medical Education Model for
the Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol-Use Disorders, a 20-module cur-
riculum and faculty development course for medical school faculty in the
primary care specialties. The model has been translated into five languages
and implemented in eight countries to date. The relationship of alcohol
misuse to aggressive behavior and violence is a complex one, and research
has shown that this relationship is more than associative. In addition to
alcohol misuse promoting aggressive behavior, victimization as a result of
violence can lead to excessive alcohol consumption. Strategies to prevent
violence must take this into account and, to be effective, must deal with the
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alcohol use of both the perpetrators and the victims of violence. Alcohol
affects the person and behavior at many levels from the cell, to the brain, to
the individual as a whole, to particular neighborhoods and micro cultures,
to the global society. For more than 20 years, Dr. Murray has worked at
the IAAA in positions that have led to collaboration with scientists across
all of its divisions and offices. She hopes to bring a broad perspective on
alcohol misuse to the identification of effective approaches to global vio-
lence prevention.
Michael Phillips, M.D., M.P.H., is currently director of the Suicide Re-
search and Prevention Center of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School
of Medicine, executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention at
Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital, professor of psychiatry and global health
at Emory University, professor of clinical psychiatry and clinical epide-
miology at Columbia University, vice chairperson of the Chinese Society
for Injury Prevention and Control, and treasurer of the International As-
sociation for Suicide Prevention. He is currently the principal investigator
on a number of multicenter collaborative projects on suicide, depression,
and schizophrenia. His recent publications include “Repetition of Suicide
Attempts: Data from Emergency Care Settings in Five Culturally Different
Low- and Middle-Income Countries Participating in the WHO SUPRE-
MISS Study” (Crisis, 2010) and “Nonfatal Suicidal Behavior Among Chi-
nese Women Who Have Been Physically Abused by Their Male Intimate
Partners” (Suicide Life-Threatening Behavior, 2009). Dr. Phillips is a Cana-
dian citizen who has been a permanent resident of China for more than 25
years. He runs a number of research training courses each year; supervises
Chinese and foreign graduate students; helps coordinate WHO mental
health activities in China; promotes increased awareness of the importance
of addressing China’s huge suicide problem; and advocates improving the
quality, comprehensiveness, and access to mental health services around
the country.
Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D., specializes in senior-level searches for ac-
ademic medical centers, public health schools, healthcare systems, and
hospitals as a member of Spencer Stuart’s Life Sciences Practice. Prior to
joining Spencer Stuart, Dr. Prothrow-Stith was associate dean and profes-
sor of public health practice at the Harvard School of Public Health. She
is recognized as one of the creators of a nationwide social movement to
prevent violence and is the coauthor of Deadly Consequences (Harper
Perennial, 1993, with Michaele Weissman), the first book to present the
public health perspective on the topic to a mass audience; Sugar and
Spice and No Longer Nice (Jossey-Bass, 2005); Murder Is No Accident
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(Jossey-Bass, 2004); and Health Skills for Wellness (Prentice Hall, 2001),
a state-of-the-art high school health text. As a board-certified internist, Dr.
Prothrow-Stith has extensive clinical experience including service as attend-
ing physician at Boston City Hospital and chief of the Adolescent Clinic at
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center. In addition to 10 honorary
doctorates, Dr. Prothrow-Stith has received the 1993 World Health Day
Award, the 1989 Secretary of Health and Human Services Award, and a
presidential appointment to the National Commission on Crime Control
and Prevention. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Mark L. Rosenberg, M.D., M.P.P., is executive director of the Task Force
for Global Health. Previously, for 20 years, Dr. Rosenberg was at the CDC,
where he led its work in violence prevention and later became the first per-
manent director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
He also held the position of the special assistant for behavioral science
in the Office of the Deputy Director (HIV/AIDS). Dr. Rosenberg is board
certified in both psychiatry and internal medicine with training in public
policy. He is on the faculty at Morehouse Medical School, Emory Medical
School, and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Dr.
Rosenberg’s research and programmatic interests are concentrated on injury
control and violence prevention, HIV/AIDS, and child well-being, with
special attention to behavioral sciences, evaluation, and health communica-
tions. He has authored more than 120 publications and recently coauthored
the book Real Collaboration: What It Takes for Global Health to Succeed
(University of California Press, 2010). Dr. Rosenberg has received numer-
ous awards including the Surgeon General’s Exemplary Service Medal. He
is a member of the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Rosenberg’s organization, the
Task Force for Global Health, participated in the IOM-sponsored work-
shop Violence Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Finding
a Place on the Global Agenda, and the Task Force remains interested in
helping to continue the momentum of the workshop through the Forum
on Global Violence Prevention. The Task Force is heavily involved the de-
livery of a number of global health programs and sees many ways in which
interpersonal violence and conflict exacerbate serious health problems and
inequities.
Working on drug policy issues for more than 16 years, Kevin A. Sabet,
Ph.D., currently serves in the Obama Administration as the special adviser
for policy and strategic planning at the White House Office of National
Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). In this position, Dr. Sabet advises the
ONDCP director on all matters affecting priorities, policies, and programs
of the National Drug Control Strategy. He worked on policy and speech-
writing at ONDCP in 2000, and from 2003 to 2004, he worked for the
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Clinton and Bush Administrations. Dr. Sabet has published widely in peer-
reviewed journals and books on the topics of marijuana policy, cocaine
sentencing, legalization, medical marijuana, addiction treatment, and other
issues. He is a regular contributor to editorial pages and the television news
media, including the Washington Post, New York Times, San Francisco
Chronicle, CNN, CNBC, and more than a dozen other media outlets. Dr.
Sabet first offered testimony on drug policy to the U.S. Senate Judiciary
Committee in 1996. Before joining ONDCP in 2009, Dr. Sabet consulted
in a private capacity on drug policy initiatives for the United Nations, local
governments, and various nonprofit organizations. Dr. Sabet is the founder
of two antidrug coalitions and has keynoted major antidrug conferences
and professional meetings in Brunei, Canada, Ecuador, Italy, Lithuania,
Macau, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and other countries.
Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., is the Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of
Child Health and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health
and the Harvard Graduate School of Education; professor of pediatrics at
Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston; and director of
the university-wide Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.
He also chairs the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, a
multi-university collaboration comprising leading scholars in neuroscience,
psychology, pediatrics, and economics, whose mission is to bring credible
science to bear on policy affecting young children. Under the auspices of
the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Shonkoff chaired a blue-ribbon
committee that produced a landmark report titled From Neurons to Neigh-
borhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development. He has authored
more than 150 publications and has received multiple professional honors,
including elected membership to the IOM of the National Academy of
Sciences, the C. Anderson Aldrich Award in Child Development from the
American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Distinguished Contributions to
Social Policy Award from the Society for Research in Child Development.
Pamela B. Teaster, Ph.D., is director of the Graduate Center for Gerontol-
ogy, chairperson of the Department of Gerontology, associate dean for
research, and professor at the College of Public Health at the University
of Kentucky (KY). She serves on the editorial board of the Gerontologist,
the Journal of Applied Gerontology, and the Journal of Elder Abuse and
Neglect. She is president of the KY Guardianship Association, director of
the KY Justice Center for Elders and Vulnerable Adults, a member of the
Task Force on Older Adult Ministries for the National Episcopal Church,
and immediate past president of the National Committee for the Preven-
tion of Elder Abuse. She has served on the National Academy of Sciences’
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Committee on Social Security and Representative Payees, the American
Bar Association’s Commission on Law and Aging, and the Center for
Guardianship Certification. She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society
of America, a recipient of the Rosalie Wolf Award for Research on Elder
Abuse (National Association of Adult Protective Services), the Outstand-
ing Affiliate Member Award (Kentucky Guardianship Association), and the
Distinguished Educator Award (Kentucky Association for Gerontology).
She is the author of Public Guardianship After 25 Years: In the Best Inter-
ests of Incapacitated People? (Praeger, 2010).
Elizabeth Ward, M.B.B.S., M.Sc., is a medical epidemiologist with years
of public health experience in the Jamaican government health system. Dr.
Ward is a consultant at the Institute of Public Safety and Justice at the Uni-
versity of the West Indies and chair of the board of directors of the Violence
Prevention Alliance Jamaica. She was formerly the director of disease pre-
vention and control of the Health Promotion and Protection Division in the
Ministry of Health. She has coordinated program development, research,
and data analysis and has been responsible for disease prevention and con-
trol. She spearheaded the development of the Jamaica Injury Surveillance
System, which tracks hospital-based injuries island-wide. Additionally, Dr.
Ward has contributed to the development of Jamaician government policies
as a task force member for the National Security Strategy for Safe Schools
and as a member of the working groups for the Security Component of the
National Development Plan, the National Strategic Plan for Children and
Violence, and the Strategic Plan for Healthy Lifestyles.
Hugh Waters, M.D., Ph.D., is a senior health specialist with Rand Health.
He has 22 years’ experience working with public health programs and
has expertise in the areas of (1) health insurance and health financing re-
forms; (2) evaluation of the effects of health financing mechanisms on ac-
cess, equity, and quality; and (3) economic evaluation of health programs.
He speaks French and Spanish fluently and has worked in more than 30
countries. Dr. Waters is a coeditor of the book Good Practices in Health
Financing, published in 2008 by the World Bank, and the author of several
chapters in this book, which contains a series of case studies of health in-
surance in low- and middle-income countries and draws lessons from these
experiences. Dr. Waters has lived and worked in Kenya, Cameroon, and
Peru and has worked on a short-term basis on health projects in numerous
countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He teaches a course entitled
“Comparative Health Insurance” at the Johns Hopkins School of Public
Health.
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Michael Wells, Ph.D., is a federal project officer with the Safe Schools
Healthy Students Initiative of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools at
the Department of Education, where he also has served as a research analyst
and grants manager. Before joining the Department of Education in 2005,
Dr. Wells was director of the Safe Schools-Healthy Students Initiative for
Stokes County Schools in North Carolina. A psychologist by training, Dr.
Wells has specialized in administering programs for and counseling at-risk
middle and high school students. He is a licensed counselor.
