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Appendix B
Biographical Sketches of
Panel Members and Staff
Steven H. Woolf (Chair) is director of the Center on Human Needs and pro-
fessor of family medicine, both at Virginia Commonwealth University. He
is board certified in family medicine and in preventive medicine and public
health. His work has focused on promoting effective health care services
and on highlighting the importance of behavioral and social determinants
of health, particularly with regard to the role of poverty, education, and
racial and ethnic disparities in determining the health of Americans. In
addition to his work as a researcher, he has also been involved with health
policy issues. He has served as science adviser, member, and senior adviser
to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. He is a member of the Institute
of Medicine. He has an M.D. from Emory University and an M.P.H. from
Johns Hopkins University.
Laudan (Laudy) Aron (Study Director) is a senior program officer with the
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National
Research Council. Previously, she worked as a senior research associate with
the Urban Institute and as director of policy research at the National Alli-
ance on Mental Illness (NAMI). She has conducted and managed research
and policy analysis on many issues that affect vulnerable populations,
including health, behavioral health, and disability; education, special edu-
cation, and alternative education; child welfare and at-risk youth; housing
and homelessness; and family violence and human trafficking. She has coau-
thored books on homelessness and publicly funded programs for children
with disabilities. She holds a B.Sc. in mathematics from McGill University
and an M.A. in demography from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Paula A. Braveman is professor of family and community medicine and
director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health at the University of
California, San Francisco. Her research has focused on measuring, docu-
menting, and understanding socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in
health, particularly in maternal and infant health. She collaborates exten-
sively with local, state, federal, and international health agencies to support
the translation of research into policies and programs. She serves on the
Advisory Council of the National Institute for Minority Health and Health
Disparities of the National Institutes of Health and in an advisory capac-
ity to several federal agencies regarding research on social inequalities in
health. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine. She holds an M.D.
from the University of California, San Francisco and an M.P.H. in epide-
miology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Kaare Christensen is professor of epidemiology at the University of South-
ern Denmark and senior research scientist in the Department of Public
Policy Studies at Duke University. His research is focused on genetic epi-
demiology, twin studies, aging, age-related diseases, and fetal program-
ming. He is engaged in interdisciplinary aging research combining methods
from epidemiology, genetics, and demography. His recent work has cov-
ered divergent life expectancy trends in Denmark and Sweden, with some
potential explanations, and genetic factors and adult mortality. He holds
a D.M.Sc. from the University of Southern Denmark and an M.D. and a
Ph.D. from Odense University.
Eileen M. Crimmins is the AARP chair in gerontology at the University of
Southern California (USC). She leads the Center on Biodemography and
Population Health, a joint endeavor of USC and the University of Califor-
nia, Los Angeles, and codirects the Network on Biological Risk sponsored
by the National Institute on Aging. Her research focuses on the connec-
tions between social and environmental factors and life expectancy and
other health outcomes. Much of her work has been on trends in mortality,
morbidity, and healthy life expectancy. She is a recipient of the Kleemeier
Award for Research from the Gerontological Society of America. She is a
member of the Institute of Medicine, and a fellow of the American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in
demography, both from the University of Pennsylvania.
Ana V. Diez Roux is a professor of epidemiology and chair of the Depart-
ment 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. Her research areas include social epidemiology, environ-
mental health effects, urban health, psychosocial factors in health, health
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disparities, and cardiovascular disease epidemiology. She has been deeply
involved in the investigation of neighborhood and community health effects
and the application of multilevel analysis in public health. Other areas of
research include the integration of social and biologic factors in health
research, complex systems approaches to population health, the impact of
stress on cardiovascular disease, and air pollution effects on health. She is
a member of the Institute of Medicine. She was recently awarded the Wade
Hampton Frost Award of the American Public Health Association for her
contributions to public health. She holds an M.D. from the University of
Buenos Aires and an M.P.H. and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.
Dean T. Jamison is a professor of global health at the University of Wash-
ington. Previously, he was on the faculty of the University of California, Los
Angeles, and he also spent many years at the World Bank where he was a
senior economist in the research department; division chief for education
policy; and division chief for population, health, and nutrition. He served
as director of the World Development Report Office and as lead author for
the World Bank’s World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health.
His research and publications are in the areas of economic theory, public
health, and education. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine. He
holds an M.S. in engineering sciences from Stanford University and a Ph.D.
in economics from Harvard University.
Johan P. Mackenbach is a professor of public health and chair of the
Department of Public Health at Erasmus University Medical Center at
Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is also an honorary professor at
the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research inter-
ests are in social epidemiology, medical demography, and health services
research. He has served as the editor-in-chief of the European Journal of
Public Health and has coordinated a number of international comparative
studies funded by the European Commission. 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. He holds an M.D.
and a Ph.D. in public health, both from Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
David V. McQueen is a behavioral scientist, currently serving as an adjunct
professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Previ-
ously, he held several positions at the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention, including associate director for Global Health Promotion, director
of the Division of Adult and Community Health at the National Center for
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Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), and chief
of the national Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. He also previ-
ously served as professor and director of the Research Unit in Health and
Behavioral Change at the University of Edinburgh. He is the immediate past
president of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education
(IUHPE), as well as leader of the IUHPE Global Programme on Health Pro-
motion Effectiveness. He holds an M.A. in history and philosophy of science
and a Sc.D. in behavioral sciences, both from Johns Hopkins University.
Alberto Palloni is the Samuel H. Preston professor of sociology and popu-
lation studies at the University of Wisconsin. His research explores the
relation between early health and aggregate inequality in high-income
countries. 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. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. He holds a B.S. from the Catholic University of Chile and a
Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
Samuel H. Preston is a professor of demography and sociology at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania. His major research interest is the health of popu-
lations, with primary attention to mortality trends and patterns in large
aggregates, including 20th century mortality transitions and black/white
differentials in the United States. His recent research has focused on the
mortality effects of cigarette smoking and obesity in developed countries.
He is a recipient of the Taeuber and Sheps Awards from the Population
Association of America, and he was a laureate of the International Union
for the Scientific Study of Population. He is a member of the National
Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Philo-
sophical Society, and a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics,
both from Princeton University.
