Sentences with phrase «university epidemiologist»

George Washington University epidemiologist David Michaels, who is President Obama's nominee to head the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), wrote a meticulously researched 2008 book called, «Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health.»

However, Oliver Brady, an Oxford University epidemiologist and co-author of a research paper recently published by The Lancet on the potential export of dengue from Brazil by travellers, is more cautious, warning that the connection between global warming and the spread of Zika is still speculative.

In «Why Most Published Research Findings Are False,» Stanford University epidemiologist John loannidis reported that «for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true.

'» Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist Thomas Burke told the AP.

Harvard University epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch, who co-led a group of researchers that lobbied for the GOF pause, calls the HHS framework «a small step forward.»

In one of a series of essays accompanying the statement, Boston University epidemiologist Kenneth Rothman, DMD, DrPH, wrote, «These are pernicious problems.

«It's stunning that the air pollution effect seems to be as robust as it is,» Arden Pope, the Brigham Young University epidemiologist who led the study, told reporters.

Relman and Harvard University epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch also argued that NSABB should drop one criterion for allowing a risky GOF study — whether the agent can be stopped with vaccines and antivirals — because developing countries likely won't have access to such countermeasures.

You see animals die,» said Svendsen, a Tulane University epidemiologist.

But on Tuesday, the university appeared to withdraw the claim after one of the study's authors, renowned Harvard University epidemiologist Walter Willett, called it «misleading» and «an extreme distortion» of the results.

Harvard University epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch has become a prominent voice in the debate over studies that create potentially dangerous new flu viruses that critics fear could escape from laboratories and cause a pandemic.

«Published evidence from randomized trials is already an amalgam of evidence - based medicine and hearsay,» notes Stanford University epidemiologist John Ioannidis.

Harvard University epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch, who has pushed for a moratorium on GOF studies on potential pandemic pathogens, told ScienceInsider he could not comment on the paused studies without seeing details.

Harvard University epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch, among others, has pushed for assessments that would weigh benefits against the number of people who could die in a potential humanmade flu pandemic.

For Columbia University epidemiologist Charles Branas, one answer is a relatively simple and inexpensive infrastructure improvement of derelict or abandoned city lots.

Harvard University epidemiologist Kate Langwig.

In 2008 Columbia University epidemiologist Guohua Li reported that each year only one person in a million suffers an anesthesia - related death in the United States.

The film presents a fictional virus, a construct devised by Columbia University epidemiologist Ian Lipkin, vectoring its way across the planet, killing millions of the fecklessly unprepared and leaving social havoc and innumerable bodies in its wake.

But ««there is broad support for the idea of oversight and review and a rigorous focus on the highest priority science with our precious research dollars,» says Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist Chris Beyrer, president of the International AIDS Society.

One Brown University epidemiologist estimates that 20,000 of them are opioid addicts — 2 percent of the population.

Not exact matches

Ultimately, a 14 - member advisory committee, all nutritionists, epidemiologists and doctors working at universities around the country, created the new recommendations.

How, asked the authors - three researchers at Vanderbilt and an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - did an athlete with treatable depression come to believe that he had an untreatable condition and commit suicide?

Contributors: Members of the writing committee for this paper were Peter Brocklehurst (professor of perinatal epidemiology, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU), University of Oxford; professor of women's health, Institute for Women's Health, University College London (UCL)-RRB-; Pollyanna Hardy (senior trials statistician, NPEU); Jennifer Hollowell (epidemiologist, NPEU); Louise Linsell (senior medical statistician, NPEU); Alison Macfarlane (professor of perinatal health, City University London); Christine McCourt (professor of maternal and child health, City University London); Neil Marlow (professor of neonatal medicine, UCL); Alison Miller (programme director and midwifery lead, Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH)-RRB-; Mary Newburn (head of research and information, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)-RRB-; Stavros Petrou (health economist, NPEU; professor of health economics, University of Warwick); David Puddicombe (researcher, NPEU); Maggie Redshaw (senior research fellow, social scientist, NPEU); Rachel Rowe (researcher, NPEU); Jane Sandall (professor of social science and women's health, King's College London); Louise Silverton (deputy general secretary, Royal College of Midwives (RCM)-RRB-; and Mary Stewart (research midwife, NPEU; senior lecturer, King's College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery).

... And in terms of that added risk, we see how someone weighs that as a personal choice,» said Jonathan Snowden, an epidemiologist at Oregon Health and Science University who led the study, which examined nearly 80,000 low - risk births in Oregon during 2012 and 2013.

«People who think, «I'm not at risk,» are really not understanding the magnitude of this virus,» says cancer epidemiologist Electra Paskett of Ohio State University in Columbus.

If this is shown to work in bigger, randomised trials, it would be fantastic, says Ana Valdes, a genetic epidemiologist at the University of Nottingham, UK.

► As part of a series of articles about fighting malaria in this week's issue, Leslie Roberts wrote about Myaing Myaing Nyunt, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore who leads «a unique collaboration [with] her husband, molecular epidemiologist and malariologist Chris Plowe.

«The science is really moving,» says Seth Berkley, an epidemiologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and also president and founder of IAVI.

Dana Loomis, editor of OEM and an epidemiologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, says, «I was completely surprised» by the letter, especially since OEM does not have and never had any DEMS paper under consideration.

Nobles, an epidemiologist, completed a bachelor's degree in molecular biology in 1998 and a master's degree in epidemiology in 2000, all at Florida A&M University.

«There are cases of that,» admits Scott McEwen, a University of Guelph veterinary epidemiologist who advises the Canadian government on the public - health implications of livestock antibiotics.

Ohio State University medical oncologist and epidemiologist Maura Gillison has studied men with oropharyngeal cancer in three different decades.

Matthias Egger, an epidemiologist at the University of Bern in Switzerland and an associate editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology, says it's hard to predict.

Shifting predictions could undermine people's faith in the value of personal genetic information, warns Cecile Janssens, an epidemiologist at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, who led the analysis.

«I can't think of another circumstance in health care where there is such a lot of nonsense that has been persisting for so long,» says Collins, a medical epidemiologist at the University of Oxford and one of the leaders of the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists» Collaboration.

Terryl Hartman, a nutritional epidemiologist and assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, notes: «The contacts that I made and the collaborations that I established during the CPFP have continued to serve me very well.

Ken Nussbaum, a veterinary epidemiologist at Auburn University in Alabama, sees a «burgeoning need» for animal experts in public health, and he wants to help fill that need.

They provide fairly substantial support that cadmium is a neurotoxin,» said Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a pediatrician and epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University who was a co-author of the study.

Michael S. Bloom, a reproductive and environmental epidemiologist at the University at Albany - State University of New York, said BPA, which is found in some hard plastic beverage containers, paper receipts and food can linings, is another chemical that may interfere with egg development during IVF.

Ian Lipkin of Columbia University, a well - known virologist who probes links between microbial infections and neuropsychiatric disorders, is being sued, along with the university, by epidemiologist Mady Hornig, his long - term colUniversity, a well - known virologist who probes links between microbial infections and neuropsychiatric disorders, is being sued, along with the university, by epidemiologist Mady Hornig, his long - term coluniversity, by epidemiologist Mady Hornig, his long - term collaborator.

That might cover studies on whether there are genetic changes that would allow Ebola to be transmitted through airborne particles, said epidemiologist Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, something that is crucial for public health officials to know, he said, but which should not be made public.

Beijing had imposed special restrictions on air pollutants, providing a rare opportunity for researchers to do relatively controlled experiments, says David Rich, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Rochester in New York.

«In epidemiology we think about sample composition a lot,» notes Kaja LeWinn, an epidemiologist at the University of California in San Francisco.

During her graduate studies at Harvard, Jennifer Weuve, now an epidemiologist at the Boston University School of Public Health, wondered if airborne pollutants might be bad for the brain.

West's academic adviser at Tulane, epidemiologist Manya Magnus, had recently moved to D.C. to work at George Washington University (GW) with Alan Greenberg, who had headed CDC's HIV epidemiology branch.

But, warning that the study has important limitations, George Patton, a psychiatric epidemiologist at the University of Melbourne in Australia, adds that it in no way proves that marijuana — particularly heavy, or chronic use — is safe for teenagers.

«It's one of the great success stories of public health,» says Joel Kaufman, a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle.

In 2013, Toshihide Tsuda, an environmental epidemiologist at Okayama University in Japan, started presenting analyses at international conferences claiming the number of thyroid cancers in the Fukushima screening was unusually high.

Others on the team include a veterinary epidemiologist and an economist from Kansas State University, and a disease spread model designer.

Frank Gilliland, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, became intrigued when laboratory studies suggested that certain pollutants in the environment might function as «obesogens,» contributing to weight gain by mimicking or disrupting the action of hormones, or having other effects.