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	Marcia Castro, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Demography Department of Population and International Health Harvard School of Public Health Marcia Castro is an assistant professor of Demography at the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. After receiving her Ph.D. in Demography from Princeton University, Castro was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Office of Population Research and the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton for two years. In 2005, she took a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina. Her areas of research interests are in population dynamics and demographic methods, mortality and morbidity, identification of social, biological, and environmental risks associated with vector-borne diseases in the tropics, malaria transmission and control, spatial methods applied to social sciences, and Amazon frontier expansion. Castro is currently conducting research in Brazilian Amazon, in Tanzania and in Ghana.

	Barrett Hazeltine, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Engineering Associate Dean Emeritus of the College Brown University Barrett Hazeltine is now Professor Emeritus but continues to teach at Brown. In 1991-1992 he held the Robert Foster Cherry Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Baylor University. From 1972 to 1992 he was also Associate Dean of the College at Brown. His teaching and research interests are in engineering management, technology planning especially in developing countries, teaching of technology for Liberal Arts students, and digital computers. He is a graduate of Princeton University BSE - 1953, MSE - 1956 and the University of Michigan Ph.D. - 1962. He has taught at the University of Zambia in 1970 and 1976, at the University of Malawi in 1980-81, 1983-84, and 1988-89 at the University of Botswana in 1993, and Africa University in Zimbabwe. Other foreign countries in which he has done teaching or consulting are Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nigeria, South Africa, The Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand. In 1965 he was with the Space and Information Systems Division of Raytheon Corporation as a participant in the ASEE Residencies in Engineering Practice Program. He has consulted for several engineering companies and for the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission, the New Jersey Department of Higher Education and the United States Naval Academy and has been involved in several projects dealing with secondary school science teaching. At Brown he presently teaches introductory management, managerial decision-making, and appropriate technology. In the past he has taught several different Electrical Engineering courses. He was responsible for the program in Organizational Behavior and Management. He received awards for teaching from thirteen senior classes at Brown, 1972 to 1984, and 1990. In 1985 the award was named after him. He has also received awards from the ASEE, Providence Engineering Society and the New York Brown Club. In May 1987, he received an honorary Sc.D. from the State University of New York in Stony Brook. He was a Fulbright lecturer in 1988-89 and 1993. He has written papers on digital logic, technology transfer, and engineering education, a textbook on electronic circuit design and a textbook on small-scale technologies.

	Pauline E. Peters, Ph.D. Lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology Harvard University Pauline E. Peters, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, is a social anthropologist whose research concentrates on the processes of agrarian transformation, particularly commercialization, land tenure, property systems, natural resource management, family organization, gender relations, poverty, and social differentiation. She has extensive field research experience in Southern and East-Central Africa. Peters joined the Harvard Institute for International Development in 1982, where she became a Fellow. Peters joined the Kennedy School in 2000. Her publications include Dividing the Commons: Politics, Policy and Culture in Botswana and Development Encounters: Sites of Participation and Knowledge, as well as numerous papers and book chapters. Dr. Petersearned her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Boston University.

	Chetan Seshadri, M.D. Fellow in Infectious Diseases Massachusetts General Hospital Brigham & Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School Chetan Seshadri received his M.D. degree from UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Duke University Medical Center at which time he worked in Tanzania conducting research into the diagnosis of tuberculosis in HIV co-infected patients. Subsequently, he joined Medecins sans Frontieres and helped manage an antiretroviral rollout program in Malawi. He is currently engaged in post-graduate training in infectious diseases. His research interests include developing new diagnostics for tuberculosis, and improving the care of patients in resource poor settings.

	Susan Cotts Watkins, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Visiting Research Scientist, University of California-Los Angeles Susan Cotts Watkins is Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, and Associate, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania. She came to Penn in 1982, after receiving a PhD in Sociology from Princeton University in 1980 and teaching at Yale University from 1979-1982. She received her undergraduate degree with high honors from Swarthmore College in 1960. She has received various honors including fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, president of the Social Science History Association and vice-president of the Population Association of America, the first annual Otis Dudley Duncan Award for distinguished scholarship in social demography, awarded by the Sociology of Population Section of the American Sociological Association, for her 1992 book, From Provinces to Nations. Her primary research interests have been in fertility declines: in western Europe over the period from 1870 to 1960, in the U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century, and in developing countries, with particular attention to the cultural contexts of fertility change and to social networks in the spread of new cultural models of reproduction. Since the mid-1990s her research has focused on sub-Saharan Africa. She has been principal investigator for two longitudinal projects, one in Kenya and one in Malawi, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation (Eliya Zulu, Co-PI), USAID (Naomi Rutenberg, Co-PI) and NIH (Jere Behrman, Hans-Peter Kohler, Alex Weinreb and Eliya Zulu, Co-PIs). These projects have collected household survey data and qualitative data on the role of social networks in fertility change and in local responses to the AIDS epidemic. All of this work has used both quantitative and qualitative data.