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Advisory Board Dr. Roxane Silver is Professor in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior and the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. A national expert in the field of stress and coping, Dr. Silver is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. In December 2003, Professor Silver was appointed by U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to the nine member Academe and Policy Research Senior Advisory Committee of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Dr. Silver has studied the acute and long-term psychosocial reactions to physical disability, death of a spouse or child, childhood sexual victimization, divorce, family violence, war, natural disaster, and human-caused disasters, such as the Columbine High School shootings and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. She has also examined physical and psychological responses to traumatic events among refugees and immigrant populations. Dr. Hector Myers is Professor of Psychology at UCLA, Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA-King Drew Medical School, and the Director of UCLA Psychology Research Opportunity Programs for Minority Students. His research focuses on the role of psychosocial stress and related factors (e.g., coping, social support, personality characteristics, and biological processes) play in physical and psychological health and well-being in African Americans and other ethnic minority populations, particularly in the context of cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, and depression. Dr. Myers has also served on the American Psychological Association’s Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention, and Training in Psychology and contributed to the commission’s final report published in 1997. Dr. Stanley Sue is Professor of Psychology and Asian American Studies at UC Davis and the former Director of the National Research Center on Asian American Mental Health at UCLA and UC Davis. His research has been devoted to the study of the adjustment of, and delivery of mental health services to, culturally-diverse groups. His work documented the difficulties that ethnic minority groups experience in receiving adequate mental health services and offered directions for providing culturally-appropriate forms of treatment. His best known work includes the landmark studies on the effects of ethnic match between therapist and client. Dr. Sue served as a Planning Board member of the Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health (1999) and later as Science Editor of the Supplement of Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (2001) for his expertise on Asian American mental health. Dr. Thomas Weisner is Professor of Anthropology in the Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry (NPI) at UCLA and a member of the UCLA Center for Culture and Health. His research program explores the relationship between culture and human development and utilizes multi-method designs, integrating qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate minority populations including African American youth and Mexican and Asian immigrant families (funded by NICHD). He also directs studies of working poor families and children (funded by NICHD), and a study of families in Head Start (funded by NSF). Both studies use a combination of qualitative and quantitative data, and both are randomized social experiments aimed at improving the lives of children and families at risk. He is the director of Fieldwork and Qualitative Data Laboratory in the Center for Culture and Health and the Mental Retardation Research Center, funded by NICHD, which provides consultation on integrating qualitative and quantitative data. This MRISP is supported by Grant 5 R24 MH073882-01 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)