Notes on Contributors

Barbara C. Cohen is senior research analyst at R.O.W. Sciences in Rockville, Maryland. She is currently a principal investigator on a national survey of food stamp recipients and is part of a research team that is evaluating the use of system integration to serve homeless mentally ill people.

Graham A. Colditz is professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, where he teaches courses in cancer prevention. He has published work on a range of chronic conditions that affect women, including breast and other cancers, and obesity. His research focuses on cancer prevention and the policy implications of chronic diseases.

Lisa C. Dubay is senior research associate at the Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., where she has examined the effect of public policies on access to care. Most recently, she has looked at state and national health care reform initiatives; she is currently evaluating the performance of states that have used the section 1115 waiver process to reform their Medicaid programs.

Harold Edgar is the Julius Silver Professor of Law at Columbia University, New York City. As a member of the International Bioethics Committee organized by UNESCO, he authored its recent report on gene therapy.

Hugh L. Freeman is an honorary visiting fellow at Green College, Oxford, and was editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry. His interests lie in the history of mental health policy, the organization of mental health services for communities, the long-term management of psychiatric disorder, and the relation between mental health and the environment.

Steven L. Gortmaker is senior lecturer, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. In his research on the health of children and adolescents, he identifies their risks for morbidity and mortality and also initiates and evaluates interventions to counter these risks.

Holly Grason is a research associate and director of the Child and Adolescent Health Policy Center in the Department of Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore. She is currently conducting research on the structure, functions, and practice of public programs for maternal and child health and on legislative and policy development in that area.

Michael Greenberg is a professor at the Bloustein School of Planning and Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Recent work in his study of environmental policy includes publications on environmentally devastated neighborhoods in the United States.

Bernard Guyer is professor and chair, Department of Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore. Dr. Guyer directs the maternal and child health training grant program at Johns Hopkins; he is currently engaged in research on child health issues that include immunizations, primary care, injury, service delivery systems, and public health practice and policy.

Genevieve M. Kenney is a senior research associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC, where she has studied Medicaid expansions for pregnant women and children, analyzing the impact of the expansions on birth outcomes, state financing decisions, and the timing of enrollment during pregnancy.

Jean M. Lawrence is evaluation coordinator at the Department of Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore. Among her research interests are the social and behavioral aspects of sexually transmitted disease, and its prevention, prevention of infant mortality, and evaluation of perinatal programs.

Stephen A. Norton is a research associate at the Urban Institute, Washington, DC, where he focuses on meeting the needs of vulnerable populations. He is currently working on an evaluation of the performance of states that have used the section 1115 waiver process to reform their Medicaid programs.

Mary Ann Oberdorf is a doctoral student in the Department of Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore. Among her interests are perinatal epidemiology and public health and health care policy as it relates to perinatal outcomes. She is currently examining racial differences in infant mortality.

Patricia O’Campo is assistant professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore. Her research interests include women’s health, application of innovative epidemiological and statistical methods to maternal and child health research, and evaluation of clinic- and community-based maternal and child health programs.

David M. Paige is a professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore. His interests lie in the areas of fetal growth and development and maternal and infant nutrition. His recent work centers on nutritional supplements to the diets of low-income women, infants, and children.

David J. Rothman is the Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and director of the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City. He is the author of Strangers at the Bedside and coeditor ofMedicine and Western Civilization. With Sheila Rothman, he is investigating medicine and the technologies of enhancement.

Dona Schneider is associate professor at the Bloustein School of Planning and Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and co-chairman of the Advisory Group on Cancer Prevention and Control, New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research. She is interested in the health issues affecting children and neonates.

Kenneth C. Schoendorf is a medical epidemiologist at the Infant and Child Health Studies Branch, National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland. His work centers on the epidemiology of infant mortality, low birthweight, and other issues related to the health of infants in the United States. Donna Strobino is a professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore. She has recently studied the reasons for higher rates of poor pregnancy outcomes among low-income women and has explored interventions that could reduce these rates.

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Volume 73, Issue 4 (pages 677–679)
Published in 1995