Sentences with phrase «at mailman»

She is also Adjunct Professor at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy; Assistant Clinical Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; chair of the Global Climate Change and Health Topic Committee of the American Public Health Association's Environment Section; and Co-Convening Lead Author for the Human Health chapter of the 2013 National Climate Assessment.

And find out why your dog barks at the mailman!

They stop barking at the mailman because you squirt them with water.

You will probably only need to use the e-collar for certain dog behaviors, like training your dog not to go into the street, leash aggression, not to bark at the mailman, or other unwanted behaviors, for example.

Give him a break from barking at the mailman and sleeping on the counch.

They say that Fluffy acts out of love or concern, that Rascal soiled the rug out of spite, that Ranger barks at the mailman because he hates the mailman, or that Mickey cringes because he is afraid of being smacked.

If I publish a tome advising that dogs barking causes cancer, because my dog barks a lot at the mailman and he got cancer, then the test would be to check for other examples of that causal effect.

In a new article in Science, historians at the Mailman School of Public Health challenge claims that the sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease.

Sarah is currently an International Fellow at SIPA and an Incarceration and Public Health Network Fellow at Mailman.

She holds Professorships in Clinical Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA and in Public Health at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu - Natal in South Africa.

The study was co-led by Victor D. Puac - Polanco, MD, MSCE, of the Epidemiology Department at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, formerly of Penn, and senior author Charles C. Branas, PhD of the department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

«Developing a better understanding of the relationship between marijuana use and cigarette use transitions is critical and timely as cigarette smoking remains the leading preventable cause of premature death and disease, and use of cannabis is on the rise in the U.S.,» said Renee Goodwin, PhD, in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and senior author.

The study was co-led by Victor D. Puac - Polanco, MD, MSCE, of the Epidemiology Department at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, formerly of Penn's MSCE program in the department of Epidemiology, and senior author Charles C. Branas, PhD, of the department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Senior author Patrick Kinney, an environmental scientist at the Mailman School and Earth Institute faculty member, pointed out several uncertainties in the study.

«The new study adds to the evidence that closing this coal - burning power plant was beneficial to the health and future well - being of newborns there,» says Perera, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health and professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health.

Researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University Medical Center studied the impact of text message reminders for the second dose of influenza vaccine required for many young children to protect them against the virus.

The lead author of the study is Tiantian Li, an epidemiologist now at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing, who did the work while serving as a postdoctoral researcher at the Columbia Climate and Health Program at Mailman, which Kinney directs.

«Management of food allergy can be expensive both in terms of food shopping, meal preparation, and the cost of epinephrine auto - injectors, which expire annually,» said Renee Goodwin, PhD, in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health and lead author.

«Text message programs like these allow for healthcare providers to care for their patients even when they are not in front of them in the office, somewhat like a modern day house call,» said Melissa Stockwell, MD, MPH, assistant professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and assistant professor of Pediatrics at the Medical Center, and principal investigator.

«An individual's telomere length at birth is known to influence their risk for disease decades later during adulthood,» says Tang, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School.

The research, led by Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, associate professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, sheds light on the racial and ethnic differences in trends of nonmedical opioid and heroin use over time.

«We now know a great deal about the harm from the emissions from fossil fuels,» said Frederica Perera, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health.

«Prenatal visits may present a good opportunity for screening and brief intervention regarding tobacco and particularly alcohol use,» noted co-author Deborah Hasin, PhD, professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health and in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.

Researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University studied the degree to which two such behaviors, adolescent sexual behaviors and gambling, affected African American youth in nine primary schools in Baltimore, MD..

«Given both the extreme and chronic stressors Yemenis are continuing to face, there is serious cause for concern of a nationwide mental health crisis,» said Dr. Lindsay Stark, associate professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health and director of the CPC (Child Protection in Crisis) Learning Network.

Maternal psychological distress combined with exposure to air pollution during pregnancy have an adverse impact on the child's behavioral development, according to researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health.

A latest study by researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University Medical Center reports that pre-eclampsia, characterized by an elevation in the blood pressure and excess protein in the urine of pregnant women, has a 1.5-fold to 2-fold higher incidence in first pregnancies.

«Despite possible similarities in the relationship between early menarche and sexual and reproductive health in low -, middle - and high - income countries, the factors associated with early menarche and early marriage may differ across ethnic groups within the same country,» noted Mobolaji Ibitoye, MPH, DrPH candidate in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School and lead author.

«The video lectures allowed for flexibility, as students could repeat sections they didn't understand for clarification and prepare questions to send to section leaders ahead of time, although the video lectures did make it difficult for students to engage directly with the lecturers,» said Stephanie Shiau, PhD, a post-doctoral student in Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and co-first author.

«We tried to be sensitive to the patients» experience and burden,» says John L. P. (Seamus) Thompson, PhD, the study's senior author, professor of Biostatistics at the Mailman School, who worked with a former student, Johnston Grier, MPH» 16, and the other authors to design the 25 - item study questionnaire.

W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, led the scientific team that identified the first U.S. outbreak of West Nile virus in 1999.

«The reason why [the current influenza outbreak] getting so much attention is that it started really early, which really speaks to the susceptibility in the population,» said Jeffrey Shaman, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University who studies influenza and climate.

«Workers of all ages are good for business and these finalists are proof positive that creating a work environment that values older workers pays off big time,» says Ruth Finkelstein, director of the Age Smart Employer Awards program and Associate Director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center at the Mailman School of Public Health.

Not exact matches

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.

«Our findings suggest that frequent e-cigarette use may play an important role in cessation or relapse prevention for some smokers,» Daniel Giovenco, an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the lead study author, said in a statement.

Dr. John Rowe, a professor of health policy and aging at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, doesn't rule it out.

In our day to day lives, going to work, eating out, shopping at the mall, talking to the mailman, I am guessing to the outside observer, they probably would not be able to tell much difference between zefi and bob.

The mailman at 31st and 2nd stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to scratch off a lottery ticket.

Even when he and the coach have words, as they did at least twice in Game 2 (over a technical foul and a bad pass by the Mailman), Malone puts it behind him immediately.

Earlier in the game, Griffin had done the Karl «Mailman Malone dunk, so maybe the Suns took exception and wanted to get back at him.

Afterwards I tried many jobs, such as Muni Bus driver, Mailman, Merchant Marine Mess Department, Back Door Man at the Old Fillmore / Fillmore West Carousel Ballroom (during my hippie daze), great perks with that job, groupies had to go through me before getting back stage.

«Parents often come to me wanting to push academics too much, too fast, too soon,» says Roni Leiderman, dean of the Mailman Segal Center for Human Development at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Her work on behalf of CARE and (RED) inspired her to pursue a Masters in Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School where she is currently enrolled.

«Just like adults» muscles strengthen when used over and over, the same is true with babies,» explains Roni Cohen Leiderman, Ph.D., dean of the Mailman Segal Center for Human Development at Nova Southeastern University, and co-author of Let's Play and Learn Together.

This question is guaranteed to be asked by just about everyone, from the future grandparents to the mailman and even the clerk at the supermarket!

Not because of that thick or thin envelope that the mailman will hand her but because it will be posted on the university's website at exactly 3 pm.

At noon, Rep. Adriano Espaillat and Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health announce $ 25 million in federal grant funding to the school to support the implementation of quality malaria diagnosis and treatment services in Ethiopia, Hess Auditorium, 722 West 168th St., Manhattan.

«Over these past six year I've gained extensive knowledge in a lot of issues,» Mailman said at the candidate forum.

Jeffrey Mailman has not raised nearly as much money as other candidates in the race for District 4, which covers a large swath of Manhattan's east side, but he has raised the most from real estate workers at companies including Douglas Elliman, and Warburg Realty.

Last week, Glenn Grays, a mailman working in his truck on President Street in Crown Heights, yelled out his window at an unmarked police car that had almost nicked his truck.