Lola Vollen

Lola Vollen, MD, MPH, "is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, Institute for International Studies. At Berkeley, Laurie is Director of the DNA Identification Technology and Human Rights Center and is currently working to develop a public health framework for biodefense strategy assessment. In recent years, she has developed health care systems for Save the Children in Somalia; worked with Physicians for Human Rights in former Yugoslavia; conducted an International Commission of Jurists-sponsored assessment of the Jenin Refugee Camp in the aftermath of the Israeli Defense Force’s April 2002 incursion; and worked with the Life After Exoneration Project, helping the exonerated establish lives outside of prison."

• Director, Council for Responsible Genetics