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Featured Speakers Jeff Meer Public Health Institute Maria Isabel Ortega PhD Directora, Coordinadora de Nutricion, CIAD Francisco Garcia, MD, MPH Associate Prof. Health Promotion Sciences Division, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health James Hopkins, LL.M./ITP Associate Clinical Professor UA James E. Rogers College of Law Neil MacKinnon, PhD Director, Arizona Center for Rural Health Jeff Meer Jeff Meer directs the Public Health Institute’s Washington-based advocacy on global health and provides strategic direction for the organization’s participation in global health procurements by the United States Government and private donors. Prior to coming to PHI, Mr. Meer had directed Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s international advocacy program. He had previously been Director for External Relations for CHF International, a major USAID implementing agency. For five years he was Executive Director of the US Association for UNHCR, and served as founding Program Officer for Peace and Security at the UN Foundation. He had been a Foreign Service Officer with the US Department of State, serving in the People’s Republic of China and Germany. Mr. Meer began his career as a magazine journalist, and is the author of Sports and Drugs (Chelsea House, 1986). Maria Isabel Ortega Velez, PhD Maria Isabel Ortega Velez is Director of Coordinadora de Nutricion at the Centre de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo (CIAD) in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Dr. Ortega’s research intends to study community nutrition from a holistic view. Her recent experiences involve the socio-cultural, economic and demographic variables associated with dietary risk factors in migrant women (Mexico-U.S.A). In collaboration with researchers from CIAD’s Regional Development Division, she has explored the effect of changes in productive sectors of rural environments as well as the rural-urban migration on the nutritional condition of the population. Dr. Ortega also participates in various studies of nutritional diagnosis in the community at national and regional levels. Her recent work involves food security and the development of models of nutrition intervention, mainly oriented to dietary modification among agricultural migrant workers and their families in northern Mexico. The mission of CIAD is to carry out scientific and technological research in food and development, to the formation of postgraduate human resources and to the diffusion of knowledge in our areas of expertise, therefore contributing to the economic and social welfare of the country. Francisco Garcia, MD, MPH Francisco Garcia is the Director of the University of Arizona National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. His research expertise is in the area of pre-malignant cervical disease and human papillomavirus infection, and the evaluation of new technologies and therapeutics for cervical cancer precursors. Dr. Garcia also has a long established interest in the health of women on the US-Mexico Border. Dr. Garcia is active in the training and mentoring of residents, medical students, graduate students and international medical personnel interested in women’s health. Dr. Garcia has served as a consultant and collaborator to a variety of domestic initiatives, including Arizona’s Well Woman Health Check Program, the American Cancer Society, Western and South-Eastern Arizona Area Health Education Centers and the tribal NBCEDDP programs on Hopi and Navajo Nations. In the international arena he has worked with the Secretariat of Health of the State of Sonora, Population Council, the Pan-American Health Organization, the Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplasicas (Peruvian National Cancer Institute), IMSS-Solidaridad, Programa de Salud Reproductiva (the Mexican Social Security Institute-Reproductive Health Program), JHPIEGO, International Planned Parenthood Federation and PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology for Health). James Hopkins, LL.M./ITP James Hopkins is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Professor Hopkins is Algonquin/Metis from Quebec. He is a former law clerk to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and is a member of the Ontario Bar. Prior to joining the College of Law, he was an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Law, at the University of Alberta. He graduated from Harvard Law School’s joint Masters of Laws and International Tax Program (LLM/ITP) in June 2000. Professor Hopkins’ area of interest is the intersection between trade, tax and aboriginal law. He is a recipient of the Harvard University International Tax Program’s Award for Excellence in Research and Writing for his graduate thesis titled, “ Democratization by Taxation: Democratic Experimentalism in Aboriginal Canada.” Neil MacKinnon, PhD Neil MacKinnon is the Walter H. Pearce Endowed Chair and Director of the Arizona Center for Rural Health and Professor in the Division for Community, Environment and Policy Division, MEZCOPH. Prior to joining the UA he was professor and associate director of research at Dalhousie University College of Pharmacy in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada where he also served as an active member of his local community health board and for the last decade served on the drug formulary committee of a large private payer in Canada. He has worked closely with several healthcare groups, including Canada’s healthcare watchdog, the Health Council of Canada. In 2010-11 he served as President of the 3000-member Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists. A prolific researcher with over 200 publications, MacKinnon’s research on improving the quality and safety of the medication-use system has been internationally recognized. Neil edited two textbooks and he is the co-author of the Canadian bestselling book Take as Directed: Your Prescription for Safe Health Care in Canada (Sept. 2010).
Susan Kunz, MPH Director, Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Mariposa Community Health Center Neeraj Kak, PhD Senior Vice President, URC-CHS Martha Moore-Monroy, MA Director, Pima County REACH Roberta L. Howard, MA, LCS CEO NAZCARE, Inc. Jennie F. Becenti, MPH, BA Executive Director Tohono O’odham DHHS Susan Kunz, MPH Susan Kunz is the Director of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Platicamos Salud at the Mariposa Community Health Center in Nogales. She has provided public health leadership in Arizona’s U.S.-México border region for 30 years working in partnership with community-based organizations to create, advance and replicate evidence-based practice to address social determinants of health. She has worked for the Tohono O’odham Nation as a health planner and directed the Border Health Foundation coordinating projects in the four U.S. and six Mexican border states. She is Chair Elect of the National Community Committee (NCC) that advises the CDC Prevention Research Center Program nationwide. Ms. Kunz received her MPH from the University of California at Berkeley and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Columbia, South America. Neeraj Kak, PhD Neeraj Kak is Senior Vice President at the University Research Co., LLC. Dr. Kak has more than 25 years experience assisting policy-makers and program managers in applying management and research tools to improve health systems and program effectiveness and efficiency in Asia, the New East, Eurasia and Africa by reducing costs and increasing efficiency, demand, and the involvement of private sector providers. He has extensive experience in operations research methods, survey instrument design, sampling methodology, data management, and statistical analysis. As Senior Vice President for URC, Dr. Kak oversees the Tuberculosis program as well as leads the firm’s program development unit, and supervises Chiefs of Party and technical experts around the world. Martha Moore-Monroy, MA Martha Moore-Monroy is the Program Director for the REACH Pima County Cervical Cancer Prevention Partnership based at the University of Arizona, National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. She serves as a Regional Director for the National REACH Coalition Board of Directors, an organization dedicated to the elimination of health disparities. The primary focus of her professional career has been working with promotoras/community health outreach workers and community based coalitions dedicated to the elimination of health disparities facing underserved and minority populations. Roberta L. Howard, MA, LCS Roberta L. Howard is the CEO of NAZCARE, Inc. a consumer-operated, recovery agency. Her research in the area of recovery support services and curricula in recovery, learning styles and modalities have helped NAZCARE to become a leader in recovery support services. She is the Chair of the Partners of Native American Public Health, Chair of Recovery and Wellness Committee for the AZ Council of Human Service Providers, Secretary of Arizona Community Action Association and sits on many other boards and committees. Roberta has designed best practice supportive housing curriculum for people with serious mental illness. Her evidenced based programs in peer employment training and recovery support services are implemented in ten states. Jennie F. Becenti, MPH, BA Jennie Becenti is the new Executive Director of the Tohono O’odham Nation Department of Health and Human Services. She has a Master of Public Health from the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education and Bilingual Studies also from the University of Arizona. She has over thirteen years of experience as an educator in the elementary school setting on the Tohono O’odham Nation; has worked as a Social Worker with the Indian Health Service in the Sells Service Unit where she coordinated case management and medical and behavioral health support services; and has worked as a Community Health Specialist in the urban Native American community in Tucson. Ms. Becenti also has extensive experience in elder health care administration and was the Assistant Administrator at the Archie Hendrick’s Skilled Nursing Facility. From 2007-2011 Ms. Becenti was the Manager for Healthy O’odham Promotion Program Division at the Department of Health and Human Service’s which provides chronic disease prevention and management services and promotes healthy lifestyles and wellness to Tohono O’odham children, adolescents, adults, elders and families. 15
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