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APPENDIX A
Committee Member Biographies
Lee-Ann Jaykus (Chair), PhD, is a professor in the Department of Food, Bioprocessing, and Nutrition
Sciences and the Department of Microbiology of North Carolina State University. Her current research
efforts are diverse and include the development of molecular methods to detect foodborne pathogens
(Noroviruses, hepatitis A virus, and such bacterial agents as Campylobacter and Salmonella) in foods,
such as preanalytical sample processing; investigation of persistence and transfer of pathogens in the
food-preparation environment; and the application of quantitative microbial risk-assessment methods to
food safety. Dr. Jaykus has collaborated on large, multi-institutional projects to investigate the prevalence
of pathogens in domestic and imported fresh produce and to study the ecology of pathogenic Vibrio
species in molluscan shellfish that originate in the Gulf of Mexico. Her professional memberships include
the International Association for Food Protection (which she serves as president), the American Society
for Microbiology, the Institute of Food Technologists, the Society for Risk Analysis, and the Council for
Agricultural Science and Technology. Dr. Jaykus served as a member of the National Advisory
Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods; the joint National Research Council–Institute of
Medicine Standing Committee for the Review of Food Safety and Defense Risk Assessments, Analyses,
and Data; the National Research Council Committee for Review of the Food Safety and Inspection
Service (FSIS) Risk-Based Approach to Public Health Attribution; and the joint National Research
Council–Institute of Medicine Committee on the Review of the Food and Drug Administration’s Role in
Ensuring Safe Food. Dr. Jaykus earned her PhD in environmental science and engineering in the School
of Public Health of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Julie A. Caswell, PhD, is a professor in and the chair of the Department of Resource Economics at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research interests include the operation of domestic and
international food systems, analysis of food-system efficiency, and evaluation of government policy as it
affects systems operation and performance, with emphasis on the economics of food quality, safety, and
nutrition. Dr. Caswell has provided her expertise on food-safety and labeling issues to the Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development and to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. She has
held numerous senior positions with the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and the
Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association and was a Fulbright Distinguished
Lecturer in Italy in 2009. Dr. Caswell has served on several joint National Research Council–Institute of
Medicine committees: the Committee on Implications of Dioxin in the Food Supply (2001–2003), the
Committee on the Review of the Food and Drug Administration's Role in Ensuring Safe Food (2008–
2011), the Food Forum (2005–2010), the Planning Committee on Future Trends in Food Safety:
Changing Market Forces, Emerging Safety Issues, and Economic Impact (2008), and the Committee on
Nutrient Relationships in Seafood: Selections to Balance Benefits and Risks (2004–2006). Dr. Caswell
holds a joint PhD in agricultural economics and economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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James S. Dickson, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Animal Science of Iowa State University
(ISU). He has 18 years of tenure at ISU and served as the chair of the Department of Microbiology from
1998 to 2003. Before his career at ISU, Dr. Dickson held a post with the US Department of Agriculture
(USDA) Agricultural Research Service as a research food technologist and lead scientist. His research
focuses on microbiological safety of food of animal origin, sanitization of these foods, and postprocessing
survival of bacteria in foods. Dr. Dickson developed predictive Salmonella growth-control models that
are cost-effective and of interest to USDA regulatory programs. He is a certified Hazard Analysis Critical
Control Points instructor and has participated in a variety of local and international training courses,
including those for food-industry audiences in Japan, China, and Singapore. Dr. Dickson served on the
joint National Research Council–Institute of Medicine Committee on the Review of the Use of Scientific
Criteria and Performance Standards for Safe Food and was chair of the joint National Research Council–
Institute of Medicine Subcommittee on Meat and Poultry, both from 2001 to 2003. Dr. Dickson was
elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 1994 and is a member of the American
Society for Microbiology and the Institute of Food Technologists. Dr. Dickson holds a PhD in food
science and technology from the University of Nebraska.
John R. Dunn, PhD, DVM, is the deputy state epidemiologist in the Communicable and Environmental
Diseases Services of the Tennessee Department of Health. He has held the position of state public-health
veterinarian since 2007 and is the director of foodborne, vector-borne, and zoonotic diseases. Dr. Dunn
also serves as an adjunct professor in the Department of Comparative Medicine of the University of
Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine and as an assistant clinical professor of preventive medicine in
the Department of Preventive Medicine of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is a member of
the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, the American Veterinary Medical
Association, and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. Among the honors he has received
is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Distinguished Service Award in 2006. He serves as the
committee cochair of the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians Compendium of
Measures to Prevent Disease Associated with Animals in Public Settings and chairman of the Tennessee
Food Safety Taskforce. Dr. Dunn received his PhD in epidemiology and DVM from Louisiana State
University.
Stephen Fienberg (NAS), PhD, is Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science at
Carnegie Mellon University. His principal research interests lie in the development of statistical methods,
especially for problems involving categorical variables. Initially, he worked on the general statistical
theory of log-linear models for categorical data, including approaches appropriate for disclosure,
estimating the size of populations, and Bayesian approaches to the analysis of contingency tables. His
research on disclosure limitation for categorical data, and on confidentiality privacy and security more
broadly, has led to the creation of a new on-line journal, the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, of
which he is editor-in-chief. Dr. Fienberg serves on the editorial board of the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America and was elected a member of NAS in 1999. He is
also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Royal Society of Canada. He has
served on 29 National Research Council, NAS, and Institute of Medicine committees and panels. He
chaired the Committee on National Statistics in 1981–1987 and has served as cochair of the Report
Review Committee since 2012. Dr. Fienberg received a PhD in statistics from Harvard University.
William K. Hallman, PhD, is chair of the Department of Human Ecology and director of the Food Policy
Institute of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He is a member of the Graduate Faculties of
Psychology, Nutritional Sciences, and Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. Recent research projects
have looked at consumer perceptions and behaviors related to agricultural biotechnology, animal cloning,
avian influenza, accidental and intentional food-contamination incidents, and food recalls. Dr. Hallman
recently served on the National Research Council Committee on an Evaluation of the Food Safety
Requirements of the Federal Purchase Ground Beef Program. His current research projects include studies
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of public perceptions of and responses to food-safety risks, the use of nanotechnology in food, public
understanding of health claims made for food products, and food safety and security among homebound
elderly Americans. Dr. Hallman serves on the Executive Committee of Rutgers Against Hunger (RAH)
and helped to found the New Brunswick Community Farmers Market. His recent honors include the 2009
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. He earned his PhD in
experimental and social psychology from the University of South Carolina.
Ginger Zhe Jin, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Economics of the University of
Maryland (UMD). Before her appointment at UMD in 2000, Dr. Jin received her PhD in economics from
the University of California, Los Angeles. Her primary fields of research are industrial organization,
evaluating the role of information in population health, and family economics. Most of her research
focuses on information asymmetry among economic agents and how to provide information to overcome
the information problem. In 2003, she examined the effect of hygiene report cards on restaurant hygiene
and foodborne illness in Los Angeles. Dr. Jin’s other seminal studies include rating of health-care
organizations, advertising and learning about prescription drugs, on-line trading, and the interfamilial
interaction between parents and children. She is now working on peer-to-peer lending, research
misconduct, inspector behavior in regulatory enforcement, and several projects related to China's
economic development, health insurance, and air quality. Among her honors is serving, since 2008, as
coeditor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy and International Journal of Industrial
Organization. She has been a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research since
2005.
Gale Prince, BS, has more than 40 years of experience in food safety, quality control, sanitation,
workplace safety, and regulatory compliance. He spent nearly 30 years at the Kroger Company as director
of corporate regulatory affairs, where his major responsibilities included regulatory matters related to
food and product safety and crisis management related to product safety for manufacturing plants and
retail stores. Mr. Prince serves on numerous boards and committees, including the Food Protection
Committee of the Food Marketing Institute and the Food Technical and Regulatory Affairs Committee of
the American Bakers Association. Mr. Prince has served on the Board of Directors of the United Fresh
Fruit and Vegetable Association and the Suspicious Orders Task Force of the US Department of Justice
Drug Enforcement Agency. He is an honorary lifetime member and past president of the International
Association for Food Protection (IAFP) and a member of the Association of Food and Drug Officials, the
International Association for Food Protection, and the Institute of Food Technologists. He has received
several awards for his expertise, including the IAFP Harry Haverland Citation Award in 2006 and other
awards from the US Food and Drug Administration and the Association of Food and Drug Officials. Mr.
Prince received a BS degree from Iowa State University.
Donald Schaffner, PhD, is an extension specialist in food science and a professor in the Department of
Food Science of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. His research interests include quantitative
microbial risk assessment and predictive food microbiology. He is the author of more than 100 peer-
reviewed publications, book chapters, and abstracts and has received almost $5 million in grants and
contracts. Dr. Schaffner has educated thousands of food-industry professionals through numerous short
courses and workshops in the United States and more than a dozen other countries. He has served on
committees with the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO). He is a past member of joint National Research Council–Institute of Medicine committees,
including the Standing Committee on the Use of Public Health Data in U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Food Safety and Inspection Service Food Safety Programs, and has chaired two expert workshops on
microbial risk for WHO–FAO. Dr. Schaffner is an editor of the journal Applied and Environmental
Microbiology. He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists in 2010 and was elected the
secretary of the International Association for Food Protection in 2010, a 5-year commitment ending with
his service as the president of the organization. Dr. Schaffner holds a PhD in food science and technology
from the University of Georgia.
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Kathleen Segerson, PhD, is the Philip E. Austin Professor of Economics at the University of
Connecticut. She has been a full professor at the university since 1996. She was the head of the
Department of Economics from 2001 to 2005. Dr. Segerson specializes in natural-resource economics, in
particular, the economics of environmental regulation. She is a member of the Chartered Executive Board
of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board and previously served as the vice
chair of the Advisory Board’s Committee on Valuing the Protection of Ecological Services and Systems.
She was a member of the US General Accounting Office’s Expert Panel on Climate Change Economics
from 2007 to 2008 and often serves on external review committees for the US Department of Agriculture.
She has also served on three National Research Council study committees: the Committee on Assessing
and Valuing the Services of Aquatic and Related Terrestrial Ecosystems (2002–2004), the Committee on
the Causes and Management of Coastal Eutrophication (1998–2000), and the Committee on Improving
Principles and Guidelines for Waste Resources Planning by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (2008–
2010). She serves on the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the National Academies. In
2008, she was named a fellow by both the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association and the
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Dr. Segerson earned a PhD from Cornell
University in 1984.
Christopher A. Waldrop, MPH, is the director of the Food Policy Institute of the Consumer Federation
of America, a nonprofit association. He directs research, analysis, advocacy, and media outreach for all
food-policy activities at the institute. He regularly monitors food-safety activities of the US Department
of Agriculture, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Congress, where he advocates for
strong food-safety protections for consumers. He also coordinates the Safe Food Coalition, a group of
consumer, trade-union, and foodborne-illness victim organizations dedicated to reducing foodborne
illness by improving government food-inspection programs. Mr. Waldrop served on two joint National
Research Council–Institute of Medicine committees: the Committee on Review of the Methodology
Proposed by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) for Follow-Up Surveillance of In-Commerce
Businesses and the Committee on Review of the Methodology Proposed by the Food Safety and
Inspection Service for Risk-Based Regulation of In-Commerce Activities. He is a member of the
Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue and serves on the Board of Directors of the Partnership for Food Safety
Education, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing consumers with information about safe food-
handling practices. Mr. Waldrop also serves on the FDA Food Advisory Committee, which advises the
commissioner on emerging food-safety, food-science, nutrition, and other policy-related health issues.
Mr. Waldrop has an advertising degree from Texas Tech University and an MPH from Johns Hopkins
University. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana as a community health educator.
David Weil, PhD, is a professor of economics and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the
Boston University School of Management. He also serves as codirector of the Transparency Policy
Project at the Ash Institute of Harvard Kennedy School. His research spans regulatory and labor-market
policy, industrial and labor relations, occupational safety and health, and transparency policy. He has
written three books, including Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Cambridge
University Press, 2007) and the award-winning Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of
Manufacturing (Oxford University Press, 1999). In addition, he is the author of over 75 articles and
publications in a variety of refereed economics, public-policy, management, and industrial-relations
journals and books and numerous publications in nonacademic outlets. Dr. Weil has worked as an adviser
to the US Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division, the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, and a number of other government agencies. He also served as mediator and adviser in a
variety of labor-union and labor–management settings around the world, including the National Planning
Association Working Group on Workplace Regulation (1995). His research has been supported by the
National Science Foundation, DOL, the National Institutes of Health, the Russell Sage Foundation, the
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Smith
Richardson Foundation. Dr. Weil received his PhD in public policy from Harvard University.
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