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for translational research on communicating health risks and improving medical decisions and policies. Recently, she has written about evidence-based recommendations for communicating the impacts of climate change on health, including for an invited perspective at the New
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Program. She also was a voting member and then chair of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Risk Communication Advisory Committee (2007–2009, 2011–2013). She was a member of the Committee on the Science of Science Communication: A Research Agenda, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine from 2015 to 2017 and wrote a commissioned paper for the then-Institute of Medicine on the implications of numeracy for the Affordable Care Act.
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National Cancer Institute as a member of the group on Cognitive, Affective, and Social Processes in health Research (CASPhR) in the Behavioral
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