Sentences with phrase «give public health officials»

The next step for the drug vaccines will be human trials, which, if successful, could give public health officials a game - changing new solution to the opioid epidemic.

This lead time can give public health officials more time to develop an effective response to the outbreak.

Not exact matches

Public health officials look for ways to intervene, given their particular legislated mandates and authority.

3.15 pm: Una O'Brien, permanent secretary at the Department of Health, and other officials give evidence o the Commons public accounts committee about NHS trusts» finances.

EPIDEMICS • Transportation officials and public health experts are pilot testing a Web site that calculates the risk that passengers coming off any given flight are carrying an emerging infectious disease.

Combined, these models give public health and governmental officials vital climate information needed to create early warning systems — systems that can alert the public to the risk for disease and allow public health officials to mobilize resources and enact mosquito control programs and surveillance ahead of peak season.

Experts have questioned how officials will be able to measure the effectiveness of an emergency for the opioid crisis and how they will know when to declare it over, given that the opioid epidemic is expected to remain a public health crisis for years to come.

In 1997, the City Council revised the animal control ordinance to: require licensing of cats and dogs; require a kennel permit for more than four cats or four dogs; regulate the number of animals that may be adopted from the city shelter; define animal cruelty and animal nuisance; and give city officials authority to control potential public health threats.

(ref1, ref2) Out of fear and official public health concern, the vaccines are only certified for 3 years and, with science overlooked, many states insist they be given yearly.

In Mr. Burnett's case, he offered assertions alone and declined to mention the names of anyone in Mr. Cheney's team who was involved, or provide other evidence that the office influenced the cuts (in testimony given by a top health official before the Senate Environment and Public Works committee headed by Ms. Boxer).

But in and around the tropics, public health officials and communities are already fixated on the rapid spread of the virus, particularly given signs (but not yet direct evidence) that Zika is causing the devastating brain malformation microcephaly in babies born to some infected women in affected zones in Brazil and elsewhere.

To facilitate this, the government has proposed a crime bill which includes a clause giving local officials more powers to break up «illegal installations that threaten public health, security or tranquillity».