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Appendix C: Participant Biographies
Appendix C: Participant Biographies
Pages 145-166
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Mercedes C Becerra, Sc.D., is assistant professor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Gail H Cassell, Ph.D., is a visiting professor in the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Vice President of TB Drug Discovery for the not-for-profit Infectious Disease Research Institute in Seattle.
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Dr. Cassell is the former vice president of infectious diseases drug discovery and clinical development at Lilly, where she led the program for a hepatitis C protease inhibitor from the discovery phase to clinical candidate.
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She was a founding member and the first vice chair of the Health Research Alliance (an alliance of not-for-profit, nongovernmental research funders)
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Kiran Katoch, M.D., M.B.B.S., is director of the National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, ICMR, in Agra, India. She also plans and coordinates the work of the Model Rural Health Research Unit in Ghatampur, Kanpur, which includes the epidemiology of various
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Her coordination of the Research Unit's programs goes beyond the main research focus on leprosy, TB, and filariasis to pursue the broader objective of bringing modern technology to the needy, especially deprived sections of society in rural settings. Vishwa Mohan Katoch, M.D., is secretary to the Government of India, Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and Director General, ICMR.
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; the Erwin Stindl Memorial Oration Award of German Leprosy Relief Organization (1991)
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Dr. Kumar has worked as Junior Medical Officer, WHO Global Smallpox Eradication (1975)
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; director, Central Bureau of Health Intelligence, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (2004–February 2011) ; and Head, WHO Collaborating Center for the Family of International Classifications, India (2008–2011)
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K Mitra Birth Centenary Gold Medal of the Indian Science Congress Association and the Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Visiting Fellowship, and delivered the D
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There he worked closely with the country program manager, focusing on establishing systems to improve access to care for TB patients coinfected with HIV. During his association with the Central TB Division, he actively contributed to the development of the national training modules for TB/HIV, organizing and facilitating training of trainers on TB/HIV across the country, conducting HIV surveillance in TB patients, and developing the national framework for joint TB/HIV collaborative activities as well as a number of new pilot initiatives in TB/HIV.
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Owen Robinson, M.P.P., is partnerships manager for the Mirebalais National Teaching Hospital, a 320-bed public referral center being built by Partners In Health in central Haiti. Prior to joining PIH, he spent 3 years as manager of New Initiatives at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
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Dr. Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva is chief medical officer, Central TB Division, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
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He currently is vice chairman of the TB Association of India. Pradeep Saxena, M.B.B.S., M.D., is director, Central Bureau of Health Intelligence, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, and head, WHO Collaborating Center for the Family of International Classifications, India.
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Dr. Saxena has revised training material on procurement and drug logistics management for different categories of RNTCP personnel, formulated annual training plans on procurement and drug logistics management, and organized and conducted various training programs in these areas for RNTCP personnel across the country.
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; the Hari Om Ashram Alembic Award; the Ranbaxy Research Award; the Lupin Chest Oration Award; the Rabindranath Tagore Oration; the Searle Oration; the Dr. Devi Chand Memorial Gold Medal Oration; and the VR Joshi JAPI Award for Outstanding Referee.
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Dr. Shinnicks's editorial activities include associate editor of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases and the editorial board of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Tuberculosis, and Current Microbiology.
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She has worked at the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (formerly the Tuberculosis Research Centre) , Chennai, since 1992, where she served as principal investigator for several clinical trials investigating the treatment and prevention of TB among HIV-infected patients.
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. He has been chairman of the Central Drug Research Institute, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, and the National Brain Research Centre.
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She has experience conducting controlled clinical trials in TB and leprosy, as well as operational research on key aspects of the RNTCP. She is involved in organizing and conducting training on various aspects of TB control at the national, regional, and international levels and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students from various medical colleges who are posted at the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis.
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Previously, Dr. Yadav was professor of supply chain management at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, where he started a high-impact group focused on global health supply chains, and was a research affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics.
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