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Expertise: Health policy, obesity and diabetes prevention in underserved populations, public health
Bio: Debra Haire-Joshu is an internationally renowned scholar of health behavior who develops population wide interventions to reduce obesity and prevent diabetes, particularly among underserved youth.
Haire-Joshu holds a secondary appointment with the Washington University School of Medicine. She directs the Obesity Prevention and Policy Research Center and also serves as associate director of the Diabetes Research and Training Center. Her current research is supported by a number of National Institutes of Health agencies including the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Disease, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Missouri Foundation for Health. She has published and presented her research extensively, and reviews for numerous professional journals and NIH research review groups.
Haire-Joshu recently served as a Health Policy Fellow in the Office of Senator Barack Obama and as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow for the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee of Senator Edward Kennedy.
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Education:
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B.Sc. in Nursing at Southern Illinois University
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M.S. in Health education at Souther Illinois University
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M.S. in Medical-surgical nursing at Saint Louis University
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Ph.D. in Educational psychology at Saint Louis University
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Health care reform will not be highest priority
Public health experts discuss upcoming health care legislation
Dec. 3,
2008 -- Barack Obama will need to act swiftly in his first 100 days as president to resolve the domestic crises facing the nation, but concerns about the economy mean that health care reform will not be the highest priority during that time, says leading public health experts at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL). Debra Haire-Joshu, Ph.D., professor of social work and medicine at WUSTL, and Timothy McBride, Ph.D., associate dean for public health at WUSTL's George Warren Brown School of Social Work, are available to discuss health care legislation under Obama. Haire-Joshu served in Obama's congressional office and McBride is part of the nationally representative Rural Policy Research Institute's Health Panel.
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