Sentences with phrase «environmental epidemiology»

J.P. van der Sluijs, Towards a common understanding of the Precautionary Principle, oral presentation (3 Sept. 2006) at the International Conference on Environmental Epidemiology & Exposure, jointly organised by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) and the International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEA), Paris, France, 2 - 6 September 2006.

He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in environmental epidemiology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

I subsequently worked for many years in the environmental epidemiology of pesticides.

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 18, 571 - 580.

This program has resulted in the discovery of unique variants in environmentally responsive genes, the development of a number of resources, and capacity building in the environmental epidemiology communities in order to incorporate gene - environment hypotheses and tools into human population - based studies on a number of environmentally relevant diseases.

To do this, the Harvard Chan researchers leveraged the results of an exposure prediction model developed by doctoral student Qian Di and Joel Schwartz, professor of environmental epidemiology and the study's senior author.

A research consortium bringing together teams from Inserm, the Nancy and Poitiers University Hospitals, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Atlanta, USA), and coordinated by the Inserm and University of Grenoble Environmental Epidemiology team (Unit 823), has just published an epidemiological study indicating that exposure to certain phenols during pregnancy, especially parabens and triclosan, may disrupt growth of boys during fetal growth and the first years of life.

«Most of the country is either meeting the EPA standards now, or is expected to meet them in a few years as new power plant controls kick in,» said senior author Joel Schwartz, professor of environmental epidemiology.

The study, published last month by The Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, has intensified the years - long debate about whether or how the federal government should regulate perchlorate in the nation's drinking water.

We thank Debbie Lawlor (Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, UK), Maarike Harro (Dept Public Health, University of Talin, Estonia), Karsten Froberg (Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark), Caroline Fall and Clive Osmond (MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK), and Anita Ravelli (Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for kindly providing unpublished data for inclusion in the review.

The study, published last month by The Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, has intensified the years - long debate about whether or how the federal government should regulate perchlorate in the nation's drinking water.

Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 10 (6 Pt 2): 755 - 60.

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Krysia Lynch, Chair Krysia Lynch started her working life as a researcher in environmental health and epidemiology; researching spatial variations in disease incidence and health provision.

Research interests of the more than 200 doctoral - level faculty include AIDS, GIS, maternal and child health, hospital epidemiology, infectious diseases, environmental and occupational health, eldercare, minority health and health disparities.

Public health is a field that spans many areas, from disease prevention, outbreak control, and health promotion to epidemiology, environmental health, health care, health policy, and even bioterrorism.

«Our findings suggest that teens and young adults who seek indoor tanning may be especially vulnerable to developing BCC, the most common form of skin cancer, at a young age,» said lead author Professor Margaret Karagas, co-director of the Cancer Epidemiology and Chemopreventon Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Director of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth.

We would expect our findings can help in the prediction and prevention of heart failure among African Americans,» said Yu, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences at UTHealth School of Public Health.

Karen Levy's work explores how environmental factors affect the transmission and incidence of infectious diseases, focusing on the ecology and epidemiology of food - and water - borne diseases.

Twenty - first century science is driven, in large part, by challenges at interfaces, including those between the environmental and life sciences — public health, ecology, genomics, cell biology, epidemiology, immunology, neurobiology, physiology, evolutionary biology... and the mathematical sciences.

One of the byproducts of the natural gas boom has been that environmental agencies set up to handle issues of permitting and waste disposal are grappling with questions of health and epidemiology, subjects in which they have little training or experience.

The incoming AAAS Public Engagement Fellows work in such varied disciplines as virology, vaccine and pharmaceutical development, public health, demography, disease ecology, environmental health, parasitology, and human and veterinary epidemiology.

He is a University of Washington professor of environmental and occupational health sciences, and also a UW professor of epidemiology, and of medicine.

«That gave us the motivation to search for environmental causes that are avoidable,» said the University of Aarhus» Dr. Jørn Olsen, another senior author and former chair of the UCLA Fielding School's epidemiology department.

The researchers, led by Sara Adar, John Searle Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Joel Kaufman, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Medicine, University of Washington, found that higher concentrations of fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) were linked to a faster thickening of the inner two layers of the common carotid artery, an important blood vessel that provides blood to the head, neck, and brain.

protected animals»); studies on in vitro systems (whole perfused organs, tissue slices, cell and tissue cultures, and subcellular fractions); and human studies (including estimations of occupational and environmental exposure, postmarketing surveillance, epidemiology, and the ethical and strictly controlled use of human volunteers).

Senior author Francine Laden, ScD, Professor in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at Harvard Chan School, added, «We are currently working to determine if individuals who make healthier lifestyle choices are less susceptible to the adverse impacts of air pollution, and to determine if similar patterns of susceptibility are seen in men.»

In a new study published in the journal PLOS One, Jennifer Horney, PhD, associate professor and head of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Texas A&M School of Public Health, along with researchers from Texas A&M and the Pacific Northwest National Lab, examined concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) before and after Hurricane Harvey in the Houston environmental justice neighborhood of Manchester.

The life sciences — notably including epidemiology, environmental health, molecular biology, medicine, and pharmacology — have long drawn on statistics.

Co-authors of the paper are Laurel Kincl, an assistant professor of environmental and occupational health; Ellen Smit, an associate professor of epidemiology; environmental and occupational health doctoral student Liu Yang; and Daniel Cain, with the state of Oregon.

You only have to read the newspapers or turn on the television to be bombarded with stories about BSE, the epidemiology of foot - and - mouth disease, measles mumps and rubella vaccine, the Internet, cloning, environmental sustainability, and mobile phones.

The research, published in Environmental Research, was led by Prof. Liat Lerner - Geva of TAU's Sackler Faculty of Medicine and School of Public Health and the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Dr. Adel Farhi of the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, in collaboration with Prof. Itzhak Benenson of TAU's Department of Geography and Human Environment and Prof. Yinon Rudich of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

«ALDH inhibition appears to be an important mechanism by which these environmental toxins contribute to Parkinson's pathogenesis, especially in genetically vulnerable individuals,» said study author Beate Ritz, a professor of epidemiology at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA.

There are some methods out there to determine population size, but this new model can provide a more detailed picture,» said Xiaoming Liu, Ph.D., lead author and assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences at UTHealth School of Public Health.

«There are no contemporary data that might explain our finding that the risk was sustained among past users of [HRT] or that the risk seemed to increase with duration of use,» writes Dr. Viktor Oskarsson, Unit of Nutritional Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, with coauthors.

Jagai and her colleagues used the U.S. EPA's Environmental Quality Index, a county - level measure incorporating more than 200 of these environmental variables and obtained cancer incidence rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program State CanEnvironmental Quality Index, a county - level measure incorporating more than 200 of these environmental variables and obtained cancer incidence rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program State Canenvironmental variables and obtained cancer incidence rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program State Cancer Profiles.

«Our studies are beginning to corroborate the idea that environmental estrogen may be associated with endometriosis,» said Germaine Buck - Louis, director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's epidemiology division in Maryland.

Despite the mandatory addition of folic acid to enriched grain products in the United States, many women still do not consume adequate amounts of this important vitamin, according to an editorial written by Laura E. Mitchell, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health.

Ute Kraus and colleagues of the Environmental Risks research group led by Dr. Alexandra Schneider at the Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI II) at Helmholtz Zentrum München have now studied the effects of exposure to our everyday background noise.

In countries with a low incidence of gastric cancer, it has been proposed to first triage a subject based upon epidemiology, genetics, and environmental risk factors.

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy recommends a case - by - case patient assessment based upon epidemiology, genetics, and environmental risk factors.

Johnnye L. Lewis, Ph.D., DABT, Mallery Downs, R.N., Community Environmental Health Program, Center for Population Health, UNM; Teresa Coons, Ph.D., UNM Epidemiology and Cancer Control Program; and Chris Shuey, UNM MPH Candidate, SRIC.

The Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI II) focuses on the assessment of environmental and lifestyle risk factors which jointly affect major chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and mental health.

Shin's research interests include environmental fate and transport modeling; exposure assessment; exposure reconstruction; pharmacokinetic modeling; and epidemiology.

Genetic epidemiology is a discipline takes care of studying the role of genetic factors and their interaction with environmental factors in the aetiology of human disease.

The award will enable an even closer, long - term cooperation between Karen Nelson and Helmholtz Zentrum München, in particular the Research Unit Environmental Genomics (headed by Professor Michael Schloter) and the Institute of Epidemiology (headed by Professor Annette Peters) in important areas of microbiome research.

The program fosters development of new funding opportunities for example the COBRE Quantitative Biology Institute, COBRE Center for Molecular Epidemiology, the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center, and collaborative R01 / U01 applications.

The participants in the study were 1,906 Han Chinese adults in the GenSalt project (Genetic Epidemiology Network of Salt Sensitivity), a large project to identify environmental and genetic factors leading to salt sensitivity.

it is estimated that the incidence of hip fracture will rise from 1.66 million in 1990 to 6.26 million by 2050.2 [Realize food ingested is an environmental factor]-- Epidemiology of hip fracture: Worldwide geographic variation

About Blog JRHS is a peer - reviewed, scientific multidisciplinary journal in the field of public health, publishing contributions from Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Public Health, Occupational Health, Environmental Health, Health Education, Preventive and Social Medicine.

Published in Environmental Health Perspectives, this groundbreaking alliance is called Project TENDR (Targeting Environmental Neuro - Developmental Risks) and includes 48 of the country's top scientists, health professionals and health advocates, across many disciplines and sectors, including epidemiology, toxicology, exposure science, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, nursing, public health, and federal and state chemical policy.