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Climate Change, the Indoor Environment, and Health 271 APPENDIX C INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE STAFF David A. Butler, PhD, is Senior Program Officer in the Institute of Medicine (IOM). He received his BS and MS in engineering from the University of Rochester and his PhD in public-policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining the IOM, Dr. Butler served as an analyst for the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, was Research Associate in the Department of Environmental Health of the Harvard School of Public Health, and performed research at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He has directed several IOM studies on environmental-health and risk-assessment topics, including ones that produced Damp Indoor Spaces and Health, Clearing the Air—Asthma and Indoor Air Exposures, Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 1998 and Update 2000, and the series Characterizing the Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam. Dr. Butler was also a coeditor of Systems Engineering to Improve Traumatic Brain Injury Care in the Military Health System. Lauren N. Savaglio, MS, is a Research Associate in the Institute of Medicine. She received her BS in political science and international relations from Arizona State University and her MS in global health from George Mason University (GMU), where her research interests included pesticide use in agriculture and the nutritional status of those infected with HIV/ AIDS. She is also an Adjunct Professor in GMU's Department of Global and Community Health, where she teaches health and environment courses. Before going to the IOM, she practiced as an emergency medical technician at INOVA Fair Oaks Hospital in Virginia, performed HIV/AIDS research for Whitman-Walker Health, and served in the Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa. Tia S. Carter, MHA, is a Senior Program Assistant in the Institute of Medicine. In December 2008, she graduated with her master's in health-care administration from the University of Maryland, University College. She received her undergraduate degree in community health from the University of Maryland, College Park. Before going to the IOM, she worked as the Health Promotions Coordinator at the Greater Washington Urban League in the Division of Aging and Health Services, where she was responsible for health-promotion and disease-prevention education services and activities among the elderly. She has been involved with the IOM committees responsible for the reports Asbestos: Selected Cancers and Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2004 and Update 2006. Rachel S. Briks, BS, is a Program Assistant in the Institute of Medicine Board on the Health of Select Populations. She received her BS in commu- Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.