Sentences with phrase «global disease»

They want to feed the growing world population, boost our reliance on renewable energy or reduce the burden of global disease.

There is a parallel here to efforts to limit and manage global disease outbreaks through better information analysis and cooperation.

We need government infrastructure and resources to solve global disease and end needless deaths of mothers and children.

The impairment could be related to global disease severity in addition to local brain injury.

Weizhen Liu, a 2017 WIT recipient and postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University, is applying genome - wide association mapping and DNA marker technology to enhance genetic resistance in tetraploid and bread wheat to stripe rust, a major global disease of wheat that is quickly spreading and becoming more virulent.

Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute in Oxford, UK, which develops vaccines against global diseases, says it is a great step that the trial has been done in a large number of children.

Atwell, a PhD candidate in Global Disease Epidemiology and Control at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, says it is difficult to quantify the contributions of different factors to the resurgence of pertussis and that it is a multifaceted issue.

Bill Gates has moved into an emeritus role as the steward of a vast fortune that he intends to use to eradicate global diseases.

Syphilis was one of the first global diseases, and understanding where it came from and how it spread may help us combat diseases today

Tallying Global Disease Christopher Murray and Alan Lopez were reaching that point that college students know all too well.

The World Health Organization will convene an emergency teleconference of global disease experts tomorrow to decide whether MERS, the Middle Eastern coronavirus that has killed 44 people — including one person in the UK last week — should be declared a public health emergency.

In addition to HIV / AIDS — De Cock's specialty — the center has divisions that focus on parasitic disease and malaria, global disease detection and emergency response, health - systems strengthening, and global immunization.

Global disease activity also improved significantly (p < 0.0001).

Brockmann and Helbing's new approach for understanding global disease dynamics is based on the intuitive notion that in our strongly connected world, conventional geographic distances are no longer the key variable but must be replaced with «effective distances.»

We believe that unleashing the full potential of scientists worldwide is our best hope for fighting global diseases, feeding our growing population, and protecting our planet.

Mathias Nielsen, an assistant professor of political science at Denmark's Aarhus University, led the research team, who analyzed records of medical studies on a variety of global diseases gathered from several online databases.

Before coming to UC Berkeley, he modeled global disease and injury trends at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in his hometown of Seattle, WA.

This research guide provides information about the general trends in global diseases and legal efforts against them, effects on trade and human rights law, and legal research in the new field of international health law.

In Pandemic, journalist Sonia Shah explores the biological, sociological and political factors that can ignite a global disease outbreak.

What progress have we made in battling this global disease since then?

HealthMap, a global disease alert system run by academics, flags a news story from Mexico about a strange respiratory outbreak in the state of Veracruz that has claimed two lives.

At the turn of the 21st century, it became a global disease.»

Only 10 % of global health research focuses on the illnesses that constitute 90 % of the global disease burden.

Using real - time data from Wikipedia and social media, Sara del Valle and her team from Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a global disease - forecasting system that will improve the way we respond to epidemics.

Diarrhea is a global disease with the high morbidity and mortality rate in children.

Although the last Ebola outbreak was far from pandemic proportions (a global disease outbreak), the panic - level reactions in the western media to this currently West - African based epidemic gave many the impression that we were facing a crisis on the level of Spanish flu.

Days Gone is a new third - person zombie - flavoured IP in the vein of The Last of Us, with the setup involving a global disease that transformed humans into «Freakers».

It's important to understand that the flu is a global disease, so wherever you go this flu season protecting yourself and others is critical to staying healthy.