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Appendix G: Committee Member Biographical Sketches
Pages 305-312

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... Kumanyika's research concern the role of nutritional factors in the primary and secondary prevention of chronic diseases, with a particular focus on obesity, sodium reduction, and related health problems such as hypertension and diabetes. She has a particular interest in the epidemiology and management of obesity among African Americans.
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From page 306...
... He is Co-Director of the CDC-funded Prevention Research Center (PRC) -- a 5-year, multimillion dol lar project aimed at developing innovative approaches to chronic disease prevention.
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From page 307...
... Dennison, M.D., is Director of Policy and Research Translation in the Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention at the New York State Department of Health, where she has overall responsibility for identifying and working with programs to ensure the implementation of evidence-based, best-practice, and promising approaches to preventing and reducing risk factors and conditions related to chronic diseases and injury.
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From page 308...
... The SUS project targeted behavior change in children through community based, environmental change in a low-income, racially/ethnically diverse population. Results published in Obesity in 2007 demonstrate that this multipronged intervention reduced overweight in the treatment children compared with children in two similar comparison communities.
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From page 309...
... The majority of his work focuses on developing and strengthening practice-based evidence as a complement to evidence-based practices derived from systematic reviews of highly controlled trials. In the Carter Administration, he served as the first Director of the Office of Health Information, Health Promotion, Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine.
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From page 310...
... He has served as Chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the IOM Committee to Study HIV Transmission through Blood Products, and the IOM Committee on Health Effects of Exposures in the Persian Gulf War, and was founding Chair of the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee.
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From page 311...
... As Senator, she has focused on issues regarding children, veterans, improved access to health care, quality education, and economic development. She has consistently authored and sponsored bills to assist families in securing opportunities, and has also been a key author of legislation reforming the welfare system, revamping the Juvenile Code, and insuring children.
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... Bridging the Evidence Gap in Obesity Prevention 
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