Sentences with phrase «global disease experts»

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The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.

The number of people living with diabetes has tripled since 2000, pushing the global cost of the disease to $ 850 billion a year, medical experts said on Tuesday.

At a time global health experts are urging people to eat less meat to combat chronic diseases, live exporters are actively encouraging increased meat consumption by pushing more animals into more countries.

Jeremy Farrar is an emerging infectious disease expert and the director of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable health foundation.

He has contributed opinions as an expert on vector - borne disease emergence for the European Food Safety Authority and the Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR - IDAZ), is a member of the MACSUR European network on the impacts of climate change on food production via disease ecology, and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

A team of infectious disease experts from the University of Edinburgh and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute reviewed the global response to recent outbreaks, including Ebola, swine flu and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

Global vaccine experts and officials from all 26 African «meningitis belt» countries have convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to celebrate one of Africa's biggest public health achievements — the introduction of a vaccine, MenAfriVac ®, designed, developed, and produced for use in Africa, that in five years of use has nearly eliminated serogroup A meningococcal disease from meningitis belt countries and is now being integrated into routine national immunization programs.

But an increasing chorus of global health experts believes the world has been ignoring another health crisis of equal or even greater magnitude: the spiraling epidemic of noncommunicable diseases.

The world's leading health experts have identified Disease X as a global threat.

World health experts have concluded with «very high confidence» that climate change already contributes to the global burden of disease and premature death [26].

In line with global initiatives to reduce the burden of preventable chronic diseases across the world, the AHPC and a national collaboration of Australian experts have set a national target of a 10 per cent increase in physical activity by 2025 to improve the nation's health.

As we wait for answers on the source of the current H1N1 influenza outbreak, TED looks below the surface with a short interview with global health and emerging disease expert Laurie Garrett.

«Flesh - Eating Disease Is On The Rise Due To Global Warming, Experts Warn,» ScienceDaily, Aug. 16, 2007, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070815152912.htm; Hot earth image by Jack1 under GFDL 28.

World health experts have concluded with «very high confidence» that climate change already contributes to the global burden of disease and premature death [26].