Sentences with phrase «child health professor»

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We are fast - food workers, home health aides, child care teachers, airport workers, adjunct professors, retail employees — and underpaid workers everywhere.

John Dickie, the director of Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, and Sir Harry Burns, the former chief medical officer for Scotland who is now Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Strathclyde, will also be at the campaign launch.

«Since a large proportion of vitamin A — deficient children and their mothers reside in rice - consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year,» said Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Stephen Scott is a professor of child health and psychology and he's the one who runs a program that's aimed at identifying and treating mini-psychopaths.

A professor of health psychology in the UK believes if you give your child some veggies in front of the TV they will eat them.

Christakis is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington and director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Research Institute.

Harvard Professor John Ratey, MD Psychiatrist, shares advice on what types of exercise are the best for a child's health and for improving a child's brain function and development

One sobering quote I just couldn't get out of my head was from Dr. Mariana Chilton, Ph.D., an associate professor of public health at Drexel University and director of Witnesses to Hunger, who said: This recession will be permanently inscribed in the bodies and the brains of children growing up today.

Speakers include: Laura Abbott, University of Hertfordshire — Having a baby in prison: women's need to love, care and breastfeed their baby Dr Amy Brown, Associate Professor Child Public Health, Swansea University - Examining psychological, social and cultural barriers to responsive breastfeeding Helen Crawley, First Steps Nutrition Trust - The constituents of formula milk: busting the myths.

Susan Spieker, PhD — President Susan is professor of family and child nursing at the University of Washington and the Kathryn Barnard Endowed Professor for Infant Mentaprofessor of family and child nursing at the University of Washington and the Kathryn Barnard Endowed Professor for Infant MentaProfessor for Infant Mental Health.

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 Midwihealth, 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 MidwiHealth, 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 Midwihealth, 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 Midwifchild 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 Midwihealth, 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 MidwifChild 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 MidwiHealth (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 Midwihealth 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 Midwihealth 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 Midwihealth, 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).

Anne H. Zachry, PhD, OTR / L is a pediatric occupational therapist, child development specialist, and assistant professor of occupational therapy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Laurie A Nommsen - Rivers, PhD, RD, IBCLC Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences Ruth E. Rosevear Endowed Chair of Maternal and Child Nutrition College of Allied Health Sciences University of Cincinnati

Nicholas Stettler, assistant professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia told ABC News that it's already known that flavor is passed on to breast milk, but no one's quite sure if it can help your child's health by eating certain things to give them a taste for it, or if it's simply a plus to being breastfed.

The motion, proposed by Charlotte Wright, professor of community child health at the University of Glasgow, stated that, while the college had progressively distanced itself from formula manufacturers over the years, it still derived income from trade stands at conferences.

Professor Neena Modi President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Alison Thewlis MP Chair, all - party parliamentary group on infant feeding and health inequalities Sue Ashmore Programme director, Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative Justine Roberts Founder, Mumsnet Caroline Lee - Davey Chief executive, Bliss Cathy Warwick Chief executive, Royal College of Midwives Professor Helen Stokes - Lampard Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners Janet Davies Chief executive and general secretary, Royal College of Nursing Professor Lesley Regan President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Dr Cheryll Adams Executive director, Institute of Health Visiting Jess Figueras Chair of trustee board, NCT Dr Asha Kasliwal President, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Clare Meynell and Helen Gray Joint coordinators, World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) UK Working Group Emma Pickett Chair, Association of Breastfeeding Mothers Shereen Fisher Chief executive, The Breastfeeding Network Zoe Faulkner Chair, Lactation Consultants of Great Britain Eden Anderson Chair, La Leche LeaHealth Alison Thewlis MP Chair, all - party parliamentary group on infant feeding and health inequalities Sue Ashmore Programme director, Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative Justine Roberts Founder, Mumsnet Caroline Lee - Davey Chief executive, Bliss Cathy Warwick Chief executive, Royal College of Midwives Professor Helen Stokes - Lampard Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners Janet Davies Chief executive and general secretary, Royal College of Nursing Professor Lesley Regan President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Dr Cheryll Adams Executive director, Institute of Health Visiting Jess Figueras Chair of trustee board, NCT Dr Asha Kasliwal President, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Clare Meynell and Helen Gray Joint coordinators, World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) UK Working Group Emma Pickett Chair, Association of Breastfeeding Mothers Shereen Fisher Chief executive, The Breastfeeding Network Zoe Faulkner Chair, Lactation Consultants of Great Britain Eden Anderson Chair, La Leche Leahealth inequalities Sue Ashmore Programme director, Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative Justine Roberts Founder, Mumsnet Caroline Lee - Davey Chief executive, Bliss Cathy Warwick Chief executive, Royal College of Midwives Professor Helen Stokes - Lampard Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners Janet Davies Chief executive and general secretary, Royal College of Nursing Professor Lesley Regan President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Dr Cheryll Adams Executive director, Institute of Health Visiting Jess Figueras Chair of trustee board, NCT Dr Asha Kasliwal President, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Clare Meynell and Helen Gray Joint coordinators, World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) UK Working Group Emma Pickett Chair, Association of Breastfeeding Mothers Shereen Fisher Chief executive, The Breastfeeding Network Zoe Faulkner Chair, Lactation Consultants of Great Britain Eden Anderson Chair, La Leche LeaHealth Visiting Jess Figueras Chair of trustee board, NCT Dr Asha Kasliwal President, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Clare Meynell and Helen Gray Joint coordinators, World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) UK Working Group Emma Pickett Chair, Association of Breastfeeding Mothers Shereen Fisher Chief executive, The Breastfeeding Network Zoe Faulkner Chair, Lactation Consultants of Great Britain Eden Anderson Chair, La Leche League GB

Dr. Kendall - Tackett is a Research Associate at the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Texas Tech University School of Medicine in Amarillo, Texas, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in both the Divisions of Health and Trauma Psychology, Associate Editor of the journal Psychological Trauma, and Editor - in - Chief of Clinical Lactation.

In an editorial published Tuesday in the British Medical Journal, Dr. Edwin Mitchell, professor of child health research at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, wrote, «So what needs to be done?

Charles Shubin, MD, medical director of the Children's Health Center at Mercy Family Care, Baltimore; associate professor of pediatrics, University of Maryland, Baltimore; assistant professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

SOURCES: Carrie K. Shapiro - Mendoza, Ph.D., epidemiologist, division of reproductive health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Thomas G. DeWitt, M.D., director, division of general and community pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; Cheryl Cipriani, M.D., associate professor, pediatrics, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, and director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Scott & White, Temple, Texas; February 2009 Pedihealth, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Thomas G. DeWitt, M.D., director, division of general and community pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; Cheryl Cipriani, M.D., associate professor, pediatrics, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, and director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Scott & White, Temple, Texas; February 2009 PediHealth Science Center College of Medicine, and director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Scott & White, Temple, Texas; February 2009 Pediatrics

Charlotte Wright, professor of community child health at the University of Glasgow and one of the members campaigning for the change in the policy, told The BMJ that she had no objection to the college surveying its members given that the numbers who voted at the annual general meeting were so small — 66 delegates supported the motion and 53 were against it.

She is an associate clinical professor of Family Health Care Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco and has also authored several parenting books including, Keys to Parenting Your One - Year Old, Keys to Parenting Your Two - Year Old, Keys to Preparing and Caring for Your Second Child and Keys to Toilet Training.

«Babies born with low levels of protective intestinal bacteria are at an increased risk of devastating and sometimes deadly infections,» said Michael Sherman, M.D., professor emeritus in the Department of Child Health at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

Miriam Labbok, MD, MPH, IBCLC, and Fellow of ACPM, ABM, and ILCA, is Professor and Director, Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute, Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Speaking about the study Professor Hannah Dahlen, from Western Sydney University's School of Nursing and Midwifery said, «Across the board, the results indicate that the odds of a child developing a short or longer term health problem significantly increase if there was a medical intervention at the time of their birth.»

Featuring 12 world - leading professors, Microbirth highlights an urgent public health issue: medicalised birth and formula feeding could be impacting the future health of our children.

She is currently the medical director for Child and Youth Mental Health for Vancouver and a clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia.

Professor Russell Viner of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has claimed that «We are entering a state of emergency» when it comes to childhood obesity, citing statistics which show that 22 % of four and five - year olds are now overweight or obese, which rises to 34 % for ten and eleven - year olds!

Jami M. Furr, Ph.D., is Clinical Director of the Mental Health Interventions and Technology (MINT) Program, and Director of the Selective Mutism Program at the Center for Children and Families (CCF) at Florida International University, where she is also Clinical Assistant Professor.

Most pregnancy research is baby - centered, admits Dr. Alison Stuebe, an OBGYN and assistant professor of maternal and child health at the University of North Carolina, who co-authored the study.

«I've personally done more than 5,000 car - seat checks and seen only 14 seats that were installed correctly,» says Benjamin Hoffman, M.D., a certified Child Passenger Safety Technician and associate professor of pediatrics at the Oregon Health & Science University, in Portland.

«We advise families with private wells to have their tap water tested for arsenic,» Dr. Margaret Karagas, senior author and professor at Dartmouth's Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center, said in a press release.

Dr Amy Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Heath at Swansea University where she leads the MSc in Child Public Health.

«Our results suggest that breastfeeding duration is independently associated with better educational outcomes in middle childhood, especially for boys,» reported Wendy H. Oddy, associate professor at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and University of Western Australia, and colleagues.

«Mitochondrial donation will give women who carry severe mitochondrial disease the opportunity to have children without passing on devastating genetic disorders,» the Department of Health's chief medical officer Professor Dame Sally Davies says.

Professor David Salisbury, director of immunisation at the DoH, said: «It's natural for parents to worry about the health and well - being of their children and I hope that this study will reassure them that there is no evidence linking the MMR vaccine to autism.»

Elaine Becker, retired Director of Public Health Nursing, Erie County Jim Sampson, CEO, Gateway - Longview Kevin Kumor, CSEA Joan Guarino, former First Deputy Commissioner of Social Services Jeff Pirrone, Supervisor, Oishei Foundation's Mobile Safety - Net Team Dr. Thomas Rosenthal, MD, Chairman, UB Department of Family Medicine Denise Krause, Clinical Professor and Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Alumni Relations, UB School of Social Work Gaen Hooley, NYSNA Belle Walls Montree, Vice President, Behavioral Health Services, Child and Family Services

Gupta, a professor and physician at the UCLA medical school, will replace Dr. Cynthia Morrow, who resigned last spring over concerns about changes in how child health services are managed.

Dr Vuong's work was conducted in collaboration with Professor Ben Mol, from the University of Adelaide's Robinson Research Institute, a member of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute's Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme; and Professor Robert Norman, also from the Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide and a leading fertility unit, Fertility SA.

«It's important to distinguish between vegans and other vegetarians when evaluating vegetarian diets and B12 consumption,» says Vibeke Videm, a professor in NTNU's Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's and Women's Health.

Kim Mulholland, a professor of child health and vaccinology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says that although the low numbers are surprising and «quite disappointing», researchers should not necessarily rule out RTS, S.

«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.

Currently a professor of pediatrics and director of the Mount Sinai Center for Children's Health and the Environment, Landrigan is hardly ready to hang up his hat.

«The discovery of the microbiome and its significance represents a huge paradigm shift in our understanding of human health — there are more microbes living on us and in us than our own cells,» said Ingber, who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Bry «has developed a highly innovative and nationally recognized system to use the biological samples obtained routinely in the course of clinical care as the basis of population - based discovery research,» Isaac «Zak» Kohane, director of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and professor of pediatrics and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School, writes in an e-mail.

«It's superficially an easy question to ask, but answering it is fraught with difficulties,» says Al Aynsley - Green, an emeritus professor of child health at UCL, who led the study.

Both the KUDOS (Kansas DHA Outcome Study), directed by Carlson and Colombo, and the DOMinO (DHA to Optimize Mother Infant Outcome) study directed by Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition and Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk for early preterm birth.

Children from low - income families are likely to hear 30 million fewer words than their peers from higher - income families, a deficit that can have far - reaching implications on educational achievement, health and economic status, said Alan Mendelsohn, associate professor of pediatrics and population health at the New York University School of Medicine.

Problems resulting from these deficiencies — such as blindness, anemia and death, particularly among children and women — are a major public health challenge,» said Dr. Saurabh Mehta, associate professor of global health, epidemiology and nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and a senior author on this new research.

Published in the peer - reviewed journal Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine, the study, «Sperm RNA elements as markers of health,» from the lab of Stephen A. Krawetz, Ph.D., the Charlotte B. Failing Professor of Fetal Therapy and Diagnosis in the Wayne State Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, indicates that RNA found in male sperm not only shows promise as a determinant in successful live birth, it may also tell us more about the health of a child as it matures.