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Lecturer of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
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| Dr. Corinne Kirchner, a sociologist, directs the Department of Policy Research and Program Evaluation at the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB). She is co-editor-in-chief of Disability Studies Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS), and is former president of the organization. Dr. Kirchner is also Consulting Editor for Research of the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness. Her research has concentrated on concepts, measures and policy uses of socio-demographic statistics on disability, with funding from the U.S. National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, the National Science Foundation, and other public and private funders. She served on the advisory committee on the Decennial Census for the U.S. Department of Commerce, and in a similar capacity for other federal and university research programs. Dr. Kirchner has twice served as president of the New York Chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, held various offices in the "Disability Forum", a special interest group of the American Public Health Association, and has chaired a task force on disability in the American Sociological Association, where she has also been active in the medical sociology section.
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