Sentences with phrase «epidemiology research»

Paediatric and Lifecourse Epidemiology Research Group, Child Health, School of Clinical Medical Sciences

Mortality, CD4 cell count decline, and depressive symptoms among HIV - seropositive women: longitudinal analysis from the HIV epidemiology research study

1981 — Dr. Martin Hugh - Jones implements internationally - funded surveillance program concerning zoonotic diseases in the Caribbean Epidemiology Research Center areas (CAREC), part of the World Health Organization.

Men with the highest levels of exercise before their diagnosis were 30 percent less likely to die of their prostate cancer than those who exercised the least, according to a team led by Ying Wang, senior epidemiologist at the cancer society's epidemiology research program.

She is an epidemiology research associate at Brown University's School of Public Health in Providence, R.I.

Co-Leader, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program Anne Potter Wilson Professor of Medicine Director, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center Chief, Division of Epidemiology

Dr. Murphy began his HTLV epidemiology research during his fellowship at the NCI, and continued it at UCSF and BSRI with a multicenter (five U.S. cities) cohort study of almost 550 HTLV - 1 and -2 infected blood donors and 800 age -, sex - and race - matched controls.

Each summer, this program offers several 8 - 10 week paid internships to selected undergraduate and graduate students interested in mentored basic science or epidemiology research with one of the BSRI investigators.

His lab began work in collaboration with the lab of Andrzej Krolewski, M.D., Ph.D., head of Joslin's Genetics and Epidemiology Research Section.

CFI Epidemiology Research Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition Harvard School of Public Health

The MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health (CGGH) is supporting MalariaGEN by developing web - based applications for sharing and analysing large genomic datasets, and by helping to build research capacity for genetic epidemiology research in malaria - endemic regions.

After doing a genetic epidemiology research project at McGill, looking at whether family members of head and neck cancer patients had an increased risk of the disease (and finding the topic fascinating), she went to the University of Washington (U.W.) in Seattle to earn a master's degree in epidemiology.

The health - care initiatives deployed by MSF in developing countries are informed by the Paris - based, nonprofit health and epidemiology research center Epicentre.

As part of a wider # 500k epidemiology research collaboration with Guide Dogs, the researchers in the University's School of Veterinary Medicine and Science have created and tested a questionnaire - style decision tool which could help trainers from Guide Dogs to monitor and evaluate their dog's behaviour.

Grais is scientist at Epicentre, a nonprofit health and epidemiology research center in Paris set up by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to guide its health - care interventions in developing countries.

Majumder is a computational epidemiology research fellow at HealthMap, a 12 - year - old disease detection project run by researchers from Boston Children's Hospital.

Epidemiology research studies patterns of disease within specific populations.

«The results supply the foundation for detailed research into lung diseases and clarification of the association between genetics, lung function and susceptibility to respiratory disorders,» reports Prof. Dr. Holger Schulz, head of the Pulmonary Epidemiology research group at the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU).

«Because resource availability varies widely, both among and within countries, we need to adjust strategies to improve access to HPV vaccination everywhere,» said Silvia de Sanjosé, MD, PhD, co-chair of the Expert Panel that developed the guideline and head of the Cancer Epidemiology Research Program at Institut Català d'Oncologia in Barcelona, Spain.

The clinical project coordination department of the Clinical Trials and Epidemiology Research Unit randomised women by means of telephone calls.

We conducted our study in conjunction with the clinical trials and epidemiology research unit, which is an independent organisation funded by the National Medical Research Council.

Not exact matches

The CDC, says Wintemute, has incorrectly «interpreted that as a mandate not to do research» on the public health dangers of guns and the epidemiology of gun violence.

Deborah Brooks, Co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Elli Kaplan, Co-founder and CEO, Neurotrack Dr. David A. Kessler, Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Bill Maris, Venture Capitalist Dr. Olivier Oullier, Neuroscientist & Former Head, Global Strategy in Health and Health Care, World Economic Forum Mary Varghese Presti, Executive Director, Emerging Services, athenahealth Moderator: Dr. David Agus, USC Introduction: Dr. Doug Nemecek, Chief Medical Officer, Behavioral Health, Cigna

«Research suggests that these community social connections are as important for resilience to disaster is as physical material like disaster kits or medical supplies,» explained Ichiro Kawachi, a professor of social epidemiology at Harvard's School of Public Health.

If you start digging around in medical journals such as JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine and the Journal of Epidemiology, you'll find some pretty amazing research linking coffee to a wide number of health benefits.

New research led by the Nutritional Epidemiology Group (NEG) at the University of Leeds found a significant correlation...

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

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 andepidemiology, 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 andEpidemiology 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).

Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal - Fetal Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; the Departments of Medicine, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama.

Based on the research questions at hand, the Center draws from CHOP and University of Pennsylvania - based expertise in emergency medicine; pediatric trauma; surgery; nursing; social work; pediatric and adolescent medicine; epidemiology and biostatistics; bioengineering; computational engineering; psychology; behavioral science; communications; and health education.

«Mothers who don't discuss their results with their kids are relatively less satisfied and feel more conflicted,» says Kenneth Tercyak, director of behavioral prevention research at Georgetown Lombardi and lead author of the study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

«We just don't have enough data to advise women on the risks of breast milk sharing, and that's one of the reasons why this research is so important,» said Keim, who is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in The Ohio State University College of Medicine and of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health.

In addition, structured training in study design, epidemiology, clinical investigation and health policy research is available for fellows interested in systematic pursuit of a career in clinical research or clinical trials.

Krysia Lynch, Chair Krysia Lynch started her working life as a researcher in environmental health and epidemiology; researching spatial variations in disease incidence and health provision.

Obesity and urinary incontinence: Epidemiology and clinical research update.

Although awareness has increased about sports concussions, little research has been done on middle school athletes, especially girls, noted study co-author Dr. Melissa Schiff, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle.

In addition to clinicians, consumers, health professional educators, insurers, lawyers, ethicists, administrators, and policy makers, the participants included researchers with expertise in epidemiology, public health, sociology, medical anthropology, legal, health policy and clinical research.

Supported by a grant from The Danish National Research Foundation, which established the Danish Epidemiology Science Centre that initiated and created the Danish National Birth Cohort; by the Pharmacy Foundation, the Egmont Foundation, the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, the Augustinus Foundation, and the Health Foundation; and by a grant under Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award F32DK070491 from the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health (to JLB).

Research interests of the more than 200 doctoral - level faculty include AIDS, GIS, maternal and child health, hospital epidemiology, infectious diseases, environmental and occupational health, eldercare, minority health and health disparities.

Professor Keith Godfrey, from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, and a member of the study team, said: «The new findings provide the first direct evidence linking faltering of a baby's growth in the womb with epigenetic modifications that themselves may increase the risk of childhood obesity.

«It started to become quite evident to me that a research career in infectious disease epidemiology and mathematical modeling would be a fairly perfect combination of my longstanding interests in math and biology and medicine, as well as my emerging interest in infectious disease transmission and public health more generally,» she says.

In these roles, Dr. Twery oversees the support of research and research training related to sleep disordered breathing, the fundamental functions of sleep and circadian rhythms, and sleep disorder epidemiology and clinical trials.

«The evidence suggested that schizophrenia risk predicts the likelihood of trying cannabis,» said Dr Suzi Gage, Research Associate with the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit.

The research is by Joshua Bell and colleagues, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL (University College London), UK.

They may have done a thesis with a translational focus, but few will have received training in the requirements for doing modern patient - oriented research, which includes large doses of epidemiology, statistics, and human - subject trial design.

«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.

Dependence was strongly associated with beliefs about physical appearance and depressive symptoms., outlines in a new report published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

In her latest book, she details why theory matters in epidemiological research, the history of epidemiology, and how social justice can improve public health.

Just how LIN28B might affect menarche isn't clear, says Ken Ong, a paediatrician at the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge, UK, who led another team.

One research group needed 20,000 samples for a study of the epidemiology of common diseases.