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Carol Graham, D.Phil Carol Graham is Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings, College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, and a Gallup Senior Scientist. She served on a National Academy of Sciences panel on well-being metrics in 2012-13, received Pioneer Awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2017 and 2021, and a Lifetime Distinguished Scholar award from the International Society of Quality-of-Life Studies (2018). She has twice served as a Vice President at Brookings, as Special Advisor to the Inter-American Development Bank, Visiting Fellow at the World Bank, and consultant to the IMF. Her most recent books (published in several languages) are: The Power of Hope: How Wellbeing Science Can Save us from Despair (Princeton, 2023); Happiness for All? Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream (Princeton, 2017); The Pursuit of Happiness (Brookings, 2011); and Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires (Oxford, 2010). She has published articles in journals including Science, Social Science and Medicine, the Journal of Population Economics, Perspectives on Psychological Science, World Bank Research Observer; Health Affairs, Health Economics; the Journal of Development Studies; the Journal of Human Development; and the Journal of Economic Literature; and her work has been reviewed in Science, the New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books, among others, and is senior editor at Behavioral Science and Policy. She has an A.B. from Princeton, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins, a D.Phil from Oxford, and three beautiful children. William T. Mallon, Ed.D. William T. Mallon is Senior Director of Strategy and Innovation Development at the Association of American Medical Colleges. He currently leads an AAMC team bolstering efforts in sustainability and climate action. He co-directs the AAMC's Climate Action Leadership initiative with Eugene Washington, MD, chancellor emeritus, Duke University, and former CEO, Duke University Health System. They are the authors of a JAMA commentary calling on academic health systems to accelerate climate action. He and coauthor Natalya Cox published the first-ever overview of Climate Action in Academic Medicine, examining how medical schools and teaching hospitals and health systems are responding to the greatest health threat of the 21st century. He also is the lead author on reasons for optimism about climate action in academic health care. Additionally, Dr. Mallon has a long-standing research interest in faculty and institutional issues in higher education and academic medicine. He speaks and writes frequently about faculty appointment, promotion, and tenure; faculty satisfaction; and the management and organization of academic health systems and medical schools. He created Faculty Forward (now StandPoint Surveys), the largest collection of data on U.S. medical school faculty engagement and satisfaction. Mallon is also the author of The Handbook of Academic Medicine: How Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals Work and co-author of Leading: Top Skills, Attributes, and Behaviors Critical for Success, which is the AAMC's all-time best-selling management and leadership publication. Dr. Mallon received Bachelors and Masters degrees in English literature from the University of Richmond and Masters and Doctorate in higher education policy and administration from Harvard University. He's currently working towards an M.S. in Sustainability at the University of Oklahoma's School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering (expected completion, May 2025). Dr. Mallon's peer-reviewed research and commentaries have appeared in journals such as JAMA, Science, Academic Medicine, Innovative Higher Education, and New Directions in Higher Education. His doctoral dissertation at Harvard won the Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Citation of Excellence from the Association for the Study of Higher Education. His previous academic appointments include visiting professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. Prior to the AAMC, Dr. Mallon was a researcher at Harvard University. Friday, September 27, 2024

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