U.S. Teens in Our World: Understanding the Health of U.S. Youth in Comparison to Youth in Other Countries

Wednesday, January 14, 2004, 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET

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Michael Kogan, PhD
Director, Office of Data and Information Management
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Health Resources and Services Administration
5600 Fishers Lane
Room 18-41
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-3145
Fax: (301) 443-3145
mkogan@hrsa.gov

Michael Kogan holds a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Yale University. He is currently the Director, Office of Data and information Management for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. In this position he is responsible for directing activities of the office with an emphasis on 1) maternal and child health research; 2) building the data capacity of federal, state and local areas in maternal and child health; and 3) building the maternal and child health epidemiology capacity in the United States.

Prior to this position, he worked as a Senior Epidemiologist at the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He serves on the editorial boards of Maternal and Child Health Journal and the American Journal of Public Health. His research interests include: the effect of prenatal and pediatric care services on maternal and child health, the effect of lack of health care coverage on access and continuity of care, multiple births and determinants of preterm birth.

Trina Anglin, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Office of Adolescent Health
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
5600 Fishers Lane, 18A-39
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-4291
Fax: (301) 443-1296
TAnglin@hrsa.gov

Trina Menden Anglin, M.D., Ph.D. is Chief of the Congressionally mandated Office of Adolescent Health at the Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, where she has worked since 1996. The mission of the Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) is to provide national leadership in promoting the health, development, safety, and social and emotional well-being of all school-aged children, adolescents and young adults in the United States.

Prior to her position with the Federal government, Dr. Anglin was a member of the faculty of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland (1975-92), where she directed the adolescent medicine program at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital/MetroHealth Medical Center and co-founded the School of Medicines Center for Adolescent Health; and was a member of the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, where she was responsible for teaching and training activities in adolescent medicine (1992-96). Dr. Anglin has had direct experience in developing and providing adolescent health services in a variety of hospital and community-based settings. She has multiple publications in areas relevant to adolescent and school health.

Mary D. Overpeck, Dr.P.H.
Office of Data and Information Management
Maternal and Child Health Bureau
5600 Fishers Lane, 18A-41
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-0694
Fax: (301) 443-9354
overpecm@hrsa.gov

Mary Davidson Overpeck, DrPH, is an epidemiologist in the Maternal and Child Bureau of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. She has a BS in Statistics and a DrPH with joint degrees in Maternal and Child Health and Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina. Her research work has been devoted to studies of U.S. children at the national level and she has developed a number of national surveys. She is a principal investigator for the U.S. component of the international study of Health Behaviors in School-Aged Children.

Claire Brindis, Dr.P.H.
Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy
Executive Director, National Adolescent Health Information Center
University of California at San Francisco
3333 California Street, Suite 265
San Francisco, CA 94143-0936
Phone: (415) 476-5255
Fax: (415) 476-0705
brindis@itsa.ucsf.edu

Claire D. Brindis, Dr. P.H. is Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy within the University of California, San Francisco’s Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine. She is also Executive Director of the National Adolescent Health Information Center and Associate Director of the Policy Information and Analysis Center for Middle Childhood and Adolescence. Her research focuses on adolescent and child health policy, adolescent pregnancy and pregnancy prevention, adolescent health and risk-taking behaviors, reproductive health services for men and women, school-based and integrated health and social services, and women’s health.

Dr. Brindis led a multidisciplinary evaluation team evaluating California’s Office of Family Planning’s Family PACT (Planning, Access, Care and Treatment) program, and recently co-authored a statewide comprehensive strategic plan for California, “Investing in Adolescent Health: A Social Imperative for California’s Future.” She has authored a five-volume monograph series, “Communities Responding to the Challenge of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention,” as well as a “Guidebook for Evaluating School-Based Health Centers.” Dr. Brindis is currently co-authoring a monograph on implementing the Healthy People 2010 Adolescent Health Objectives.