Sentences with phrase «environmental epidemiologist»

«There's mounting evidence now from epidemiological studies that prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides, and chlorpyrifos in particular, may be associated with detriments with IQ in children,» said Kim Harley, an environmental epidemiologist with the University of California, Berkeley who has studied effects of pesticide exposure on children in California farm towns.

«People do physically adapt,» says study author Joel Schwartz, an environmental epidemiologist at Harvard University.

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.

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.

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.

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.

UCLA environmental epidemiologist Beate Ritz puts that 5 percent drop in context.

In assessing Voyles» case and others like it, environmental epidemiologists warn that proximity and correlation don't add up to proof.

Not exact matches

«There's already a lot of reasons for women to breastfeed their babies,» said Walter Rogan, an epidemiologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C. «This is one more.»

Epidemiologists use twins for a variety of studies to compare inheritance and environmental factors to a multitude of health and behavioural studies.

«Heat has the ability to affect so many people,» says Rupa Basu, an epidemiologist with the California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment in Oakland.

«We didn't expect diabetes to be the strongest factor in determining susceptibility,» said study lead author Jaime E. Hart, Sc.D., an epidemiologist in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at BWH and the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard Chan School.

NC State epidemiologist Jane Hoppin and colleagues from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Cancer Institute, Westat and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) used interview data from the 2005 — 2010 Agricultural Health Study (AHS) to evaluate the association between allergic and non-allergic wheeze and 78 pesticides.

«Normal maternal thyroid hormone levels are essential for normal fetal growth and brain development, so our findings could have significant public health implications,» said Jonathan Chevrier, a University of California, Berkeley epidemiologist and lead author of the study, which was published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Geologists, epidemiologists and environmental scientists traveled to Turkey to sample the air and compare the erionite with samples from North Dakota.

The North Dakota study eventually grew into a global collaboration including cancer biologists, geologists, epidemiologists, environmental scientists and physicians.

Recreational exposures clearly play a role in causing these illnesses,» says epidemiologist Rebecca Calderon of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Those estimates are wrong, says epidemiologist Allen Wilcox of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Durham, North Carolina.

Endocrinologists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, and environmental scientists must work together with federal agencies and legislators to develop comprehensive screening programs for all chemicals and regulations governing EDCs in manufactured products, the food supply, or the environment.

«To our knowledge, this is the first study concluding a severe and general decrease in sperm concentration and morphology at the scale of a whole country over a substantial period,» wrote environmental health epidemiologist Dr Joelle Le Moal, and author of the report.

He maintains close professional associations with risk assessors, environmental engineers, analytical chemists, epidemiologists, certified industrial hygienists, and other consultants.

We also work with leading toxicologists, epidemiologists, medical specialists and other experts to analyze the complex environmental and causation issues involved in toxic exposure and other mass tort actions.

An advanced degree (master's or Ph.D.) is required to work in the field and epidemiologists may choose to specialize in any number of areas (e.g. occupational disease, reproductive health, environmental hazards).

This is an actual resume example of a Environmental Services who works in the Medical Scientists and Epidemiologists Industry.