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Appendix D: Committee Biographies
Pages 314-319

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... From 1976 to 1986 he directed the Tropical Diseases Research Programme of the World Health Organization, and from 1986 to 1990 he served as the chair of the Carnegie Corporation's Strengthening Human Resources in Developing Countries grant program.
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From page 315...
... Alisjahbana has served as a technical consultant for the Asian Development Bank, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) , and the government of Indonesia on a number of programs to improve perinatal outcomes and early child development.
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From page 316...
... He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and chairman of the Membership Committee for Pediatrics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology. He has served on numerous advisory committees, including the Council for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; the National Institutes of Health Expert Panels on the Content of Prenatal Care and on Pregnancy, Birth, and the Infant Research Plan; and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment Child Health Advisory Panel.
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From page 317...
... His research focuses on perinatal epidemiology and currently includes a multicenter randomized trial of the WHO/UNICEF Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative to promote breastieeding; development of new fetal growth standards based on early ultrasound-validated gestational age; international comparisons of fetal and infant mortality; and mechanisms and causal pathways underlying socioeconomic disparities in risk for preterm birth. AFFETTE McCAW-BINNS, Ph.D., received her doctorate in perinatal epidemiology from the University of Bristol in England and an MPH in epidemiology from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
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... HARSHADKUMAR CHANDULAL SANGHVI, M.B., Ch.B., has more than 15 years of experience in Africa as a clinical service provider and university faculty member and researcher in obstetrics and gynecology. In his current position as the medical director of the Maternal and Neonatal Program at the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics in Baltimore, Maryland, he is responsible for the development of reproductive health training materials, especially those for maternal and neonatal health care.
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... He is a member of the March of Dimes Scientific Advisory Board and was a member from 1995 to 1997 of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Advisory Council. In 1995 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine.
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  • maternal mortality
  • human development
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  • tropical medicine

  • neonatal health
  • improving birth
  • birth weight
  • collaborating center
  • american health

  • birth outcomes
  • family planning
  • international development
  • perinatal epidemiology
  • neonatal infections

  • low birth
  • infectious diseases
  • pan american
  • preterm birth
  • academic honors

  • emory university
  • community health
  • growth standards
  • congressional office
  • nutritional sciences

  • underlying socioeconomic
  • tropical diseases
  • village birth
  • monitoring child
  • international nutrition


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