Sentences with phrase «global school health»

Until recently, there were four sources of large - scale self - report survey data on victim rates, cross-nationally: EU Kids Online, Global School Health Survey, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, and Health Behaviour of School - aged Children.

These are EU Kids Online, Global School Health Survey, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, and Health Behaviour of School - aged Children.

ASCD, with the International School Health Network and Education International, recently hosted regional summits focused on ASCD's Global School Health Statement.

ASCD and the International School Health Network are now inviting individuals and organizations to sign on to the Global School Health Statement to support the integration of education and health at the systems level.

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With 80 % of the world's farmable land already in use, Dickson Despommier, an ecologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, says that in 50 years we would need «another Brazil - sized landmass» to feed the three billion people expected to be added to the global population.

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«I was wondering aloud if I should have become a physician and my colleague, who happens to be a global health physician and researcher, was telling me that most of his problems were actually management problems,» recalls McGahan, a professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management.

After both earthquake and hurricane destruction in Haiti, Sandals Foundation supported various partners including: Population Services with 205,000 Aqua Tabs; Global Orphan with clothing; the Salesian Missions with recovery kits for 400 families; and All Hands Volunteers with the recovery of six schools and health clinics.

Other North Bay professionals news from Altus Equity Group, Newmark Knight Frank, Terra Firma Global Partners, In - Shape Health Clubs, Santa Rosa City Schools and Buckelew Programs.

She serves the Jewish and broader religious communities in a number of capacities including as a member of the Global Initiative for Faith, Health and Development of the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, as a member of the Summit on Religious Leadership in Response to HIV and as a board member of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

MB ChB, MRCP, PhD, FRCP, FAHA Professor of Medicine, Sydney Medical School Senior Director, The George Institute for Global Health Scientific Director, George Clinical Honorary Consultant Epidemiologist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital NHMRC Senior Research Fellow

ACEs Connection is a social network that accelerates the global movement toward recognizing the impact of adverse childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior and health, and reforming all communities and institutions — from schools to prisons to hospitals and churches — to help heal and develop resilience rather than to continue to traumatize already traumatized people.

Professor Goodwin is the founder and director of The Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at UC Irvine School of Law.

Formerly a Coordinator for the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Sarah is able to use her language skills and interest for international health and social issues for community outreach, and to engage with French - speaking clHealth and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Sarah is able to use her language skills and interest for international health and social issues for community outreach, and to engage with French - speaking clhealth and social issues for community outreach, and to engage with French - speaking clients.

Students at Davis Drive Middle School in Cary are helping the sick and wounded as part of a global health initiative.

Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

The keynote speaker at the Conference, titled «Healthy Land — Healthy Communities,» was Dr. Eric Chivian, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and founder of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Miriam Labbok, who directs the University of North Carolina's Global Breastfeeding Institute at the Gillings School of Global and Public Health, said that this new legislation is, «very exciting.»

From Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Departments of Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Corresponding author: Stephanie Watkins, MSPH, MSPT, UNC School of Global Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, 2101 McGavran - Greenberg Hall CB # 7435, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 - 7435; e-mail: [email protected].

(Airs 1/28/16) WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Carlos Sluzki MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University School of Medicine, Professor Emeritus of Global and Community Health and Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, and the Author of The Presence of the Absent: Therapy with Families and their Ghosts.

A new study by Robert Stahelin, an adjunct associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame and an associate professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine - South Bend, as well as a member of Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health, investigates how the most abundant protein that composes the Ebola virus, VP 40, mediates replication of a new viral particle.

Dr Alan Dangour, Reader in Food and Nutrition for Global Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «This is the first trial of the effect of vitamin B12 supplementation on neurological and cognitive function in older people with moderate vitamin B12 deficiency.

At Harvard Medical School, she wanted to give fellow students the same opportunity to protect people's right to health care on a global level, launching a partnership between the university and Physicians for Human Rights.

«We show that high dietary saturated fat content is associated with increased prostate cancer aggressiveness,» said Emma H. Allott, PhD, a research assistant professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

The bill's demise, says Vaughan Rees, director of the Center for Global Tobacco Control at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, also highlights the rise of intensive political lobbying in this arena.

In 2004, Paul Epstein of Harvard Medical School's Centre for Health and the Global Environment, and James McCarthy of Harvard University, claimed: «We are already observing signs of instability within the climate system -LSB-...] there is no assurance that the rate of greenhouse gas build up will not force the system to oscillate erratically and yield significant and punishing surprises.»

COPD is expected to be the third largest cause of death globally by 2030, and it is important that we identify its key causes so that this burden can be reduced,» says study author Professor Shyamali Dharmage, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Atwell, a PhD candidate in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says it is difficult to quantify the contributions of different factors to the resurgence of pertussis and that it is a multifaceted issue.

Scientific American spoke with one of the study authors, Eric Finkelstein, an associate professor at Duke University's Global Health Institute and in the school's Health Services Research Program in Singapore, about why the extra helping of information did not influence ordering behavior.

«Global iron and zinc deficiencies are an enormous public health problem,» said Samuel Myers, lead author of the paper and a physician and research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Hhealth problem,» said Samuel Myers, lead author of the paper and a physician and research scientist at the Harvard School of Public HealthHealth.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, James McCarthy of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment noted that the IPCC usually errs on the conservative side.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

According to the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, climate change over the coming decades is likely to increase rates of allergies, asthma, heart disease and cancer, among other illnesses.

The new evidence is solid and «very alarming,» says Chris Plowe, who runs the Institute for Global Health at the University of Maryland's School of Medicine in Baltimore.

According to the authors, who are based at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, the World Health Organization, Switzerland, and the University of Edinburgh, UK, «Despite remarkable progress at the level of global averages, at national level, MDG 4 will not be achieved in most countries in 2015.

With the rate of diabetes increasing dramatically worldwide, many individuals will be at risk for vision loss from diabetic eye complications and DME is a major global health concern,» says Jennifer K. Sun, M.D., M.P.H., a member of the study research team and writing committee, and an Investigator in the Section on Vascular Biology, an ophthalmologist in Beetham Eye Institute at Joslin and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

The new findings, from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard Global Health Institute, and the London School of Economics, suggest that common explanations as to why healthcare costs are so high — such as the notions that the U.S. has too many doctor visits, hospitalizations, procedures, and specialists, and spends too little on social services that could mitigate healthcare needs — may be wrong.

Health Systems & Reform presents the article «Zika Virus and Health Systems in Brazil: From Unknown to a Menace,» a commentary by Professor Marcia C. Castro, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on the Zika Virus epidemic in Brazil and the Americas.

Hawaii school - children rated by their teachers in the 1960's as less conscientious had worse global health status as adults and had significantly greater obesity, high cholesterol, and increased risk for cardiovascular disease.

«It is of vital importance that we learn more about the most effective ways of resolving the health problems, and this project emphasizes the necessity of engaging the school as well as family and schoolteachers,» says lead researcher Professor Poul Erik Petersen, from the School of Dentistry, Department for Global Oral Health and Community Dentistry at the University of Copenhealth problems, and this project emphasizes the necessity of engaging the school as well as family and schoolteachers,» says lead researcher Professor Poul Erik Petersen, from the School of Dentistry, Department for Global Oral Health and Community Dentistry at the University of Copenschool as well as family and schoolteachers,» says lead researcher Professor Poul Erik Petersen, from the School of Dentistry, Department for Global Oral Health and Community Dentistry at the University of CopenSchool of Dentistry, Department for Global Oral Health and Community Dentistry at the University of CopenHealth and Community Dentistry at the University of Copenhagen.

This gap and the challenges it poses for American consumers, policymakers, and business leaders was a major impetus for healthcare reform in the U.S., including delivery reforms implemented as part of the Affordable Care Act,» said senior author Ashish Jha, K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard Chan School and Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI).

«It's not so easy to get physicians in the United States to follow recommendations, so it shouldn't come as a big surprise that community health workers and private shopkeepers in some of the world's poorest countries have a hard time diagnosing and prescribing drugs correctly,» says Chris Plowe, who heads the Institute for Global Health (IGH) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Balthealth workers and private shopkeepers in some of the world's poorest countries have a hard time diagnosing and prescribing drugs correctly,» says Chris Plowe, who heads the Institute for Global Health (IGH) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in BaltHealth (IGH) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.

Louise Ivers, MD, senior health and policy adviser for Partners In Health and associate professor of global health and social medicine Harvard Medical School, who has worked in Haiti for over a decade, said there are several reasons the vaccine campaigns succhealth and policy adviser for Partners In Health and associate professor of global health and social medicine Harvard Medical School, who has worked in Haiti for over a decade, said there are several reasons the vaccine campaigns succHealth and associate professor of global health and social medicine Harvard Medical School, who has worked in Haiti for over a decade, said there are several reasons the vaccine campaigns succhealth and social medicine Harvard Medical School, who has worked in Haiti for over a decade, said there are several reasons the vaccine campaigns succeeded.

«Prior to this study, we had no understanding of the origins of HAV, an ancient and common threat to health in many regions of the world,» says Stanley M. Lemon, M.D., one of the study's authors and a professor of medicine at UNC's School of Medicine and UNC's Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases (Ihealth in many regions of the world,» says Stanley M. Lemon, M.D., one of the study's authors and a professor of medicine at UNC's School of Medicine and UNC's Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases (IHealth & Infectious Diseases (IGHID).

«The virus evokes a response in the infected cell that activates a pre-programmed cell death pathway,» said Stanley Lemon, M.D., one of the study's authors and a professor of medicine at UNC's School of Medicine and UNC's Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases.

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«What we have found is that America has wonderful health care services for those who enjoy them,» says Lopez, today an IHME affiliate professor and the Rowden - White Chair of Global Health and Burden of Disease Measurement at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne in Austhealth care services for those who enjoy them,» says Lopez, today an IHME affiliate professor and the Rowden - White Chair of Global Health and Burden of Disease Measurement at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne in AustHealth and Burden of Disease Measurement at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne in AustHealth at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Holgate and others gathered on 25 September for a conference addressing the role of non-governmental organizations in the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), which was held at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and co-sponsored by AAAS, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance, the UPMC Center for Health Security, the Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation and the CSIS Global Health Policy Center.

«Our findings offer new evidence for a potentially important social determinant of health that so far has not been recognized: sudden loss of wealth in late middle or older age,» said senior author Carlos Mendes de Leon, professor of epidemiology and global public health at University of Michigan's School of Public Hhealth that so far has not been recognized: sudden loss of wealth in late middle or older age,» said senior author Carlos Mendes de Leon, professor of epidemiology and global public health at University of Michigan's School of Public Hhealth at University of Michigan's School of Public HealthHealth.