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Allan Coukell
Senior Director, Drugs and Medical Devices
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The Pew Charitable Trusts
Allan Coukell oversees medical programs, including the Pew Prescription Project, the Drug Safety Project, the Antibiotics and Innovation Project, the Medical Device Safety project and the FDA Modernization Initiative, as well as other activities related to medical products and services.
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Food Safety (7)
The Pew Charitable Trusts addresses a variety of threats from the nation’s food supply and to the healthfulness of what kids eat at school. Our projects advance science-based policies based on solid research that seek to limit the impact of foodborne illnesses, improve the nutritional quality and safety of food sold and served in U.S. schools, curb the overuse of antibiotics on industrial farms, and assess the risks associated with chemicals added to food and its packaging.
Jessica Donze Black
Director, Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods ,The Pew Charitable Trusts
Jessica Donze Black is the director of the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project, leading research and policy efforts aimed at improving school nutrition.
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Sandra Eskin
Director, Food Safety ,The Pew Charitable Trusts
Sandra Eskin is the director of Pew's food safety project. The campaign seeks to reduce health risks from foodborne pathogens by strengthening federal government authority and the enforcement of food safety laws.
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Gail Hansen
Senior Officer, Human Health and Industrial Farming ,The Pew Charitable Trusts
Dr. Gail Hansen serves as a senior officer for Pew's campaign on human health and industrial farming, a project aimed at phasing out overuse of antibiotics in food production.
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Maricel Maffini
Senior Officer, Food Additives ,The Pew Charitable Trusts
Maricel V. Maffini is a senior officer for the Food Additives Project, which studies the possible risks posed by chemicals included in food production.
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Tom Neltner
Director, Food Additives ,The Pew Charitable Trusts
Tom Neltner is the director of Pew's food additives project, which examines current U.S. federal regulations regarding chemicals added to our food.
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Erik Olson
Senior Director, Food Portfolio ,The Pew Charitable Trusts
Erik Olson is senior director of Pew's food portfolio, overseeing work aimed at food safety, the quality of school food, and the food additives policy.
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Laura Rogers
Director, Human Health and Industrial Farming ,The Pew Charitable Trusts
Laura Rogers serves as the director for Pew's campaign on human health and industrial farming, an initiative that seeks to preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics by phasing out the overuse and misuse of the drugs in food animal production. She has nearly 20 years experience in advocacy, public relations, crisis communications, marketing, brand management, and fundraising.
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Medical Safety (6)
America’s doctors and healthcare facilities offer health products, therapies and treatments that were unimaginable 50 years ago. Continued progress depends on robust innovation and an efficient regulatory system that protects consumers by ensuring that drugs and medical devices are safe and effective.
Daniel Carlat
Director, Prescription Project ,The Pew Charitable Trusts
Dr. Daniel Carlat is the director of Pew's prescription project, which seeks to ensure transparency in physician-industry relationships and promotes policies to reduce or manage conflicts of interest that could affect patient care.
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Gabrielle Cosel
Manager, Drug Safety ,The Pew Charitable Trusts
As project manager of Pew's drug safety project, Gabrielle Cosel works on federal initiatives to ensure the safety and oversight of the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain.
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Allan Coukell
Senior Director, Drugs and Medical Devices ,The Pew Charitable Trusts
Allan Coukell oversees medical programs, including the Pew Prescription Project, the Drug Safety Project, the Antibiotics and Innovation Project, the Medical Device Safety project and the FDA Modernization Initiative, as well as other activities related to medical products and services.
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Nicole Mahoney
Senior Officer, Antibiotics and Innovation ,The Pew Charitable Trusts
Nicole Mahoney is the senior officer for Pew's antibiotics and innovation project, which addresses the growing public health challenge of multidrug-resistant infections by supporting policies that stimulate and encourage the development of antibiotics to treat life-threatening illnesses.
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Josh Rising
Director, Medical Devices ,The Pew Charitable Trusts
Dr. Josh Rising oversees the Medical Device Initiative, which seeks to facilitate innovation of certain new medical devices and to strengthen medical devices by improving the tracking of their safety once they are on the market.
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Kathleen Stratton
Director, Innovate FDA, ,The Pew Charitable Trusts
Kathleen Stratton directs an initiative that promotes the development of safe and effective medical treatments by fostering and supporting improvements in the FDA’s scientific staff, tools, and regulatory processes.
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Biomedical Research (1)
Pew has a decades-long commitment to support groundbreaking research by promising early-career biomedical researchers in the United States and Latin America.
Anita Pepper
Director, Biomedical Programs ,The Pew Charitable Trusts
Anita Pepper is the director for both Pew's latin american fellows and biomedical scholars programs in the biomedical sciences.
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