Sentences with phrase «epidemiologist david»

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.»

«It's a horrendous disease,» notes epidemiologist David C. Christiani.

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Until relatively recently in human history, malaria was found on every continent except Antarctica, according to Dr. David Brandling - Bennett, an epidemiologist and the former director of the malaria strategy program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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).

The State Epidemiologist, Dr David Karatu, made the disclosure on Thursday in Gombe at the State Emergency Rapid Response Committee review meeting on the committee success and anticipation.

But regular CD4 count monitoring is no trivial matter in many areas of Africa where clinics and trained staff are in low supply and transportation is difficult, says David Ross, a clinical epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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.

«This guidance details the role of the healthcare epidemiologist as an expert and leader supporting hospitals in preparing for, stopping, and recovering from infectious diseases crises,» said David Banach, MD, co-chair of the writing panel and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut and Hospital Epidemiologist atepidemiologist as an expert and leader supporting hospitals in preparing for, stopping, and recovering from infectious diseases crises,» said David Banach, MD, co-chair of the writing panel and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut and Hospital Epidemiologist atEpidemiologist at UConn Health.

David Thurman, a neurologist and epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, adds that even if BMAA is doing what Cox believes it is, it appears unlikely to be a major factor behind neurological disorders like ALS and Alzheimer's.

David Ozonoff, an epidemiologist at the Boston University School of Public Health, says that the reports «smear» the scientists involved in pandemic planning by «insinuating» that they would have offered different advice had they not had a relationship with drug companies.

«There has been concern in the healthcare community about the impact of routine, daily chlorhexidine (CHG) bathing on fostering the spread of bacteria resistant to this agent,» said David Warren, MD, MPH, lead author of the study and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine and Hospital Epidemiologist at Barnes - Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

David Williamson, an epidemiologist at Emory University in Atlanta, says that the researchers don't furnish the usual indicators of statistical significance for their projections, such as error bars.

A team led by David Melzer, an epidemiologist and physician at the Peninsula Medical School, in Exeter, U.K. examined data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a representative sample of the general population.

Almost three decades ago a British epidemiologist named David P. Strachan proposed a simple, if counterintuitive, idea to explain why hay fever, eczema and asthma had become increasingly common over the preceding century.

I've taken my best epidemiologist, David Savitz, who has agreed to chair a high - powered working group that meets every couple of weeks.

Mitigating Disasters Robin Arnette, 12 August 2005 David Bradt, a disaster epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ensures that the health needs of people in disaster - stricken areas are assessed and met.

What's troubling about these trends is that most federal agencies are poorly equipped to protect themselves from undue corporate influence, says David Michaels, an epidemiologist at George Washington University and former assistant secretary for environment, safety, and health at the Department of Energy.

'' You could literally walk into entire villages that would be permeated with the smell of death just because of the extent of the destruction,» says David Bradt (pictured left), a disaster epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, recalling his visit to Gujarat, India, where in 2001 an earthquake killed thousands.

First proposed by British epidemiologist Dr David Strachan in 1989, the hygiene hypothesis asserts that a lack of exposure to bacteria during early childhood increases the chances of developing allergies.

They were hardly put at ease by findings like those from David A. Savitz, an epidemiologist who was at the University of North Carolina back then and is now at Brown University.

• Philip Adams, broadcaster • Kirstie Albion, CEO, Australian Youth Climate Coalition • Paul Barratt, former head, Defence Dept • Professor Judy Brett, historian • Dr Stephen Bygrave, CEO, Beyond Zero Emissions • Geoff Cousins AM, President, Australian Conservation Foundation • Mary Crooks, CEO, The Victorian Women's Trust • Professor Peter Doherty, Nobel Laureate for Medicine • Ian Dunlop, former chair, Australian Coal Association • Professor Tim Flannery, palaeontologist • John Hewson, businessman and former Opposition leader • Professor Ove Hoegh - Guldberg, marine scientist • Professor David Karoly, atmospheric scientist • Professor Carmen Lawrence, former Western Australia premier • Dr Colin Long, Victorian Sec., National Tertiary Education Union • Professor Robert Manne, political scientist • Bill McKibben, author and co-founder, 350.org • Christine Milne, Global Greens Ambassador • Paul Oosting, CEO, GetUp • David Ritter, CEO, Greenpeace Australia • Professor Peter Singer, moral philosopher • Professor Fiona Stanley, epidemiologist • Dr John (Charlie) Veron, pioneer coral researcher • Mark Wakeham, CEO, Environment Victoria

David Risser, an epidemiologist with the Texas cancer registry, said he found no evidence of such an increase either, nor did Dallas» Susan G. Komen cancer advocacy group.

• Dr David Chae, a social epidemiologist from the University of Maryland's school of public health, whose research suggests that multiple levels of racism, including interpersonal experiences of racial discrimination and the internalisation of negative racial bias, may work together to accelerate ageing among African - American men, and

The new study is «extremely solid,» and suggests that it is possible to prevent conditions such as obesity and heart disease in the poor, a population that has long been thought «impossible to reach,» says David Rehkopf, a social epidemiologist at Stanford University in California.