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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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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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Sonia Chessen is senior director for government performance and chief of staff to the Executive Vice President. In this role, she ensures effective functioning of the government performance department and strategic integration of all key activities.

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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 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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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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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 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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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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Julia Moore is director for research. The research department provides support to all health-related campaigns and initiatives at The Pew Charitable Trusts.

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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 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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Anita Pepper is the director for both Pew's latin american fellows and biomedical scholars programs in the biomedical sciences.

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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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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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