Risks and Opportunities: Synthesis of Studies on Adolescence (1999)
Chapter: Front Matter
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FORUM ON ADOLESCENCE
DAVID HAMBURG (Chair),
Carnegie Corporation of New York
(President Emeritus)
HUDA AKIL,
Mental Health Research Institute, University of Michigan
CHERYL ALEXANDER,
Center for Adolescent Health, Johns Hopkins University
CLAIRE BRINDIS,
Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco
GREG DUNCAN,
Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
JACQUELYNNE ECCLES,
School of Education, University of Michigan
ABIGAIL ENGLISH,
Adolescent Health Care Project, National Center for Youth Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
EUGENE GARCIA,
School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
HELENE KAPLAN,
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom, New York City
IRIS F. LITT,
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Stanford University
JOHN MERROW,
The Merrow Report, New York City
ANNE C. PETERSEN,
W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan
KAREN PITTMAN,
International Youth Foundation, Baltimore
ANNE PUSEY,
Jane Goodall Institute's Center, University of Minnesota
MICHAEL RUTTER,
Institute of Psychiatry, University of London
STEPHEN A. SMALL,
Department of Child and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM,
Office of the Dean, Mt. Holyoke College
CAMILLE ZUBRINSKY CHARLES,
Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
BARUCH FISCHHOFF (liaison from Institute of Medicine Council),
Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
ELEANOR E. MACCOBY (liaison from Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education),
Department of Psychology (emeritus), Stanford University
BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES
JACK P. SHONKOFF (Chair),
Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University
DAVID V.B. BRITT,
Children's Television Workshop, New York City
LARRY BUMPASS,
Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin
SHEILA BURKE,
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
DAVID CARD,
Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
KEVIN GRUMBACH,
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Primary Care Research Center, University of California, San Francisco
MAXINE HAYES,
Department of Community and Family Health, Washington State Department of Health
MARGARET HEAGARTY,
Department of Pediatrics, Harlem Hospital Center, Columbia University
ALETHA C. HUSTON,
Department of Human Ecology, University of Texas, Austin
RENEE JENKINS,
Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Howard University
SHEILA KAMERMAN,
School of Social Work, Columbia University
SANDERS KORENMAN,
School of Public Affairs, Baruch College
CINDY LEDERMAN,
Circuit Court, Juvenile Justice Center, Dade County, Florida
SARA McLANAHAN,
Office of Population Research, Princeton University
VONNIE McLOYD,
Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan
PAUL NEWACHECK,
Institute of Health Policy Studies and Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
DEBORAH STIPEK,
Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles
PAUL WISE,
Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center
EVAN CHARNEY (liaison from IOM Council),
Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School
RUTH T. GROSS (liaison from IOM Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention), Professor of Pediatrics Emerita,
Stanford University
ELEANOR E. MACCOBY (liaison from Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education),
Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Michele Kipke, Director
Deborah Phillips, Director (through June 1998)
Mary Graham, Associate Director of Dissemination and Communications
Elena Nightingale, Scholar-in-Residence
Mary Strigari, Administrative Associate
