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The Board on Health Sciences Policy has as its charge assuring that there is adequate attention to policy issues relating to the science base underlying health and health care -- including the biomedical, behavioral, physical, and social sciences. Of particular concern are the public and private policies and institutional arrangements that shape the way in which these sciences are structured, funded, and coordinated. This encompasses decisions on the availability and distribution of essential resources such as funding, facilities, instrumentation, personnel, and information. The Board's goal is to consider the near-term and long-range impacts of current policies and to suggest revisions, where needed; to call attention to undersupported areas of research, those ripe for development, and those of special importance because of national health problems; and, to foster productive interactions between health scientists and policymakers. To achieve these goals, the Board identifies key problems, develops concepts for specific studies or other activities, and oversees the ongoing program in health sciences policy of the IOM.
In addition to the major role the Board plays in program development, the division staff also consult members when seeking suggestions for rosters for new committees and when seeking review of a study report.
Chair
Fred Gage, Ph.D.
Vi and John Adler Professor
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Donald S. Burke, M.D.
UPMC-Jonas Salk Chair in Global Health and Dean
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
C. Thomas Caskey, M.D.
Director
Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases
University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center
Gail H. Cassell, Ph.D.
Vice President, Scientific Affairs and
Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Diseases
Eli Lilly and Company
James F. Childress, Ph.D.
The John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics
Professor of Medical Education
Director, Institute for Practical Ethics
University of Virginia
Dennis W. Choi, M.D., Ph.D
Executive Director
Comprehensive Neuroscience Initiative
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Linda C. Giudice, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman
Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Services
University of California, San Francisco
Lynn R. Goldman, M.D.
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Lawrence O. Gostin, J.D.
Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs and Professor of Law
Director, Center on Law and the Public's Health
Georgetown University Law Center
Martha N. Hill, Ph.D.
Dean and Professor of Nursing
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
Paul E. Jarris, M.D., M.B.A.
Executive Officer
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Arlington, Virginia
David Korn, M.D.
Senior Vice President for Biomedical and Health Sciences Research
Association of American Medical Colleges
Richard C. Larson, Ph.D.
Mitsui Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Engineering Systems Division
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Alan Leshner, Ph.D.
CEO & Publisher of Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Linda B. Miller, M.S.
President
Volunteer Trustees Foundation, Washington, D.C.
E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland
Dean, School of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore
Linda Rosenstock, M.D., M.P.H.
Dean
School of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles
Keith A. Wailoo, Ph.D.
Martin Luther King Jr. Professor, Department of History
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research
Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Michael J. Welch, Ph.D.
Professor of Radiology
Co-Director, Division of Radiological Sciences
Department of Radiology
Washington University School of Medicine
Owen N. Witte, M.D.
Investigator, HHMI
President's Chair in Developmental Immunology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
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