Hepatitis C Virus Birth Cohort Testing Work Group

DVH Steering Committee

Geoff A. Beckett, MPH, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Rebecca L. Morgan, MPH, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Bryce D. Smith, PhD, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; John W. Ward, MD, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA.

CDC Representatives

Geoff Beckett, MPH, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Scott Holmberg, MD, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Deborah Holtzman, PhD, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Rebecca L. Morgan, MPH, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Dan Riedford, JD, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Bryce D. Smith, PhD, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Phil Spradling, MD, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Chong-Gee Teo, MD, PhD, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; John W. Ward, MD, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA.

External Representatives

Miriam Alter, PhD, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; Sanjeev Arora, MD, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Bruce Bacon, MD, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Doug Campos-Outcalt, MD, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ; Alfred DeMaria, Jr., MD, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain, MA; Janet Durfee, MSN, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, D.C.; Colleen Flanigan, MS, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY; Marc Ghany, MD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; Robert Gish, MD, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California; Fasiha Kanwal, MD, St. Louis VA Medical Center, St. Louis, MO; Emmett Keeffe, MD, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA; Kathleen Koechlin, PhD, Ohio Department of Health, Columbus, OH; Cameron Lewis, Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, AZ; Jake Liang, MD, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD; Robert Lubran, MPA, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Rockville, MD; Iris Mabry-Hernandez, MD, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD; Katherine McGlynn, PhD, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD; Barbara McGovern, MD, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Jamaica Plain, MA; Rachel McLean, MPH, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA; Michael Ninburg, Hepatitis Education Project, Seattle, WA; Monica Parker, PhD, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY; Phillip Reichert, MPH, Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL; Vinod Rustgi, MD, American Gastroenterological Association, Fairfax, VA; Lorren Sandt, Caring Ambassadors Program, Oregon City, OR; Gloria Searson, ICSW, COPE, Inc., New York, NY; Averell Sherker, MD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; Anne Spaulding, MD, Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA; Donna Sweet, MD, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, Wichita, KS; Andrew Talal, MD, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; Litjen Tan, PhD, American Medical Association, Chicago, IL; Chris Taylor, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, Washington, D.C.; Lisa Townshend-Bulson, MSN, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, AK; Tam Van, Association of Public Health Laboratories, Silver Spring, MD; Kathleen Whitaker, PhD, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD; Richard Wild, MD, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Atlanta, GA; John Wong, MD, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA.

Additional Consultation Attendees

Faruque Ahmed, PhD, Immunization Services Division, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Brittney Baack, MPH, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; John Douglas, MD, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Alycia Downs, MPH, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Jeff Efird, MPA, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Amy Jewett, MPH, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Cynthia Jorgensen, DrPH, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Amanda Lewis, MPH, CHES, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA; Nita Patel, DrPH, Viral Hepatitis Action Coalition, Atlanta, GA; Meredith Reilly, MPH, Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Washington, D.C.; Rachel Wilson, Division of Viral Hepatitis, CDC, Atlanta, GA.

Senior Methodologist

Yngve Falck-Ytter, MD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Heights, OH.

Peer Reviewers

Holly Hagan, PhD, New York University College of Nursing, New York, NY; Linda Kinsinger, MD, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, D.C.; Anna Lok, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.