Sentences with phrase «global public health challenge»

Scientists and clinicians are in desperate need to discover an economic, effective, safe alternative strategy to meet the global public health challenge of antimicrobial resistance.

The World Health Organization (WHO) regards childhood obesity as one of the most serious global public health challenges for the 21st century.

In fact, it has become such a concerning issue that the World Health Organization (WHO) regards childhood obesity as one of the most serious global public health challenges for the 21st century.

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However, there is a need for progress to meet tomorrow's agricultural, environmental and societal challenges, to be vital for public health and wellbeing and to have a major impact on global food systems.

Problems resulting from these deficiencies — such as blindness, anemia and death, particularly among children and women — are a major public health challenge,» said Dr. Saurabh Mehta, associate professor of global health, epidemiology and nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and a senior author on this new research.

To meet that challenge, Standley, along with a group of global health researchers based at Georgetown University Medical Center, have created a web - based tool easily accessible to public health decision - makers on the ground.

deCODE is a global leader in gene discovery — our population approach and resources have enabled us to isolate key genes contributing to major public health challenges from cardiovascular disease to cancer, genes that are providing us with drug targets rooted in the basic biology of disease.

In 2007, Burnam also proposed a «global warming task force» that would have created a report studying the «global warming challenges and opportunities facing Texas» including «protecting public health from the effects of global warming.»

«The report found that the Russian - sponsored news agency RT (formerly Russia Today) «r [an] anti-fracking programing, highlighting environmental issues and the impacts on public health,» which «is likely reflective of the Russian Government's concern about the impact of fracking and the U.S. natural gas production on the global energy market and the potential challenges to [Russian energy companies»] profitability.

This is a response to global challenges such as climate change, water scarcity and public health issues.

«Mental Health of Young People: A Global Public - Health Challenge.»