Sentences with phrase «health at the university»

Steven Blair, a professor of public health at the University of South Carolina, came to a similar conclusion in another research study in May 2010.

Dr. Morgan is a full professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia.

John Dickie, the director of Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, and Sir Harry Burns, the former chief medical officer for Scotland who is now Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Strathclyde, will also be at the campaign launch.

Dr Alexandra Johnstone, a Senior Research Fellow from the Rowett Institute of Nutrition & Health at the University of Aberdeen - part of the EU funded «SATIN» project, chaired a session at Food Matters Live 2015 on «Identifying key consumer attitudes to weight management».

Janet Cade, Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Leeds, shares insight into the new online tool that can track, monitor and analyse nutritional intake.

Co-author of the study Mary Renfrew, Professor of Mother and Infant Health at the University of Dundee, said: «This is the first large - scale study to show an increase in breastfeeding in communities where rates have been low for generations, and where it can be particularly difficult for women to breastfeed without strong family and community support, because of strong societal barriers.

Susan Jebb, Professor of Diet & Population Health at the University of Oxford, Standards Panel member

The motion, proposed by Charlotte Wright, professor of community child health at the University of Glasgow, stated that, while the college had progressively distanced itself from formula manufacturers over the years, it still derived income from trade stands at conferences.

«Women introduce formula or stop breastfeeding in an attempt to improve the situation, and this can lead to feelings of failure and guilt,» says Pat Hoddinott, Ph.D., lead author of the study and chairwoman of primary care at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health at the University of Stirling in Scotland.

Charlotte Wright, professor of community child health at the University of Glasgow and one of the members campaigning for the change in the policy, told The BMJ that she had no objection to the college surveying its members given that the numbers who voted at the annual general meeting were so small — 66 delegates supported the motion and 53 were against it.

The First Annual Symposium was co-hosted with the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI in August 2016.

«Since it's the parent, whom they rely on for everything, who is taking it away, it's perceived as a withdrawal of love, essentially,» says Alicia Lieberman, a professor of Infant Mental Health at the University of California - San Francisco and author of The Emotional Life of the Toddler.

«It actually doesn't happen that much if you give your patients good instruction about when to come in,» said Lu, who is an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and public health at the University of California Los Angeles.

Most pregnancy research is baby - centered, admits Dr. Alison Stuebe, an OBGYN and assistant professor of maternal and child health at the University of North Carolina, who co-authored the study.

She trained in adult psychiatry and mental health at the University of Rhode Island and is board certified in adult psychiatric - mental health advanced practice nursing.

Speaking ahead of the launch, Kypros Kypri, Professor of Public Health at University of Newcastle, Australia said: «There is strong evidence to show that earlier closing times can make a significant difference to the strain alcohol places on emergency services.

Dan Albert is the Emmett A. Humble Distinguished Director of the Eye Research Institute, Professor and Chair Emeritus, the F. A. Davis Professor, and the Lorenz E. Zimmerman Professor in the Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Department of the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

«Climate change does not affect everyone equally in the United States,» said Rachel Morello - Frosch, associate professor at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley and lead author of The Climate Gap.

«Our corrected calculations show that women just past 65, when current guidelines state that screenings can stop for many women, have the highest rate of cervical cancer,» says the study's lead author, Anne F. Rositch, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.

Survivors of melanoma were more likely to limit exposure to the sun than people who had never had the disease, but some still reported seeking out suntans and getting sunburns, reports a new article in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research by Rachel Isaksson Vogel, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health at the University of Minnesota.

As I look back on a 30 - plus year career split equally between Harvard Medical School and the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I am struck by the even greater contrasts in culture, values, leadership style, and work ethic between the «Eggheads» of the Ivy League and the «Cheeseheads» in Wisconsin.

Parents» major concerns often included misunderstandings about medical care, potential suffering and cost related to child organ donation, according to this month's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan.

«This is a refreshingly novel approach, and the studies are of top quality and are highly convincing,» says Richard Sharpe, who specialises in male reproductive health at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athletes.

We also examined more health outcomes than previous studies and were able to thoroughly check women's medical records,» says the lead author Dr. Abbey B. Berenson of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health at University of Texas Medical Branch.

Only half of parents were confident that they would know what to do if their child were choking and 1 in 10 parents would immediately take their child to the ER for a minor burn, according to C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan.

Ian Hamilton, lecturer in mental health at the University of York, said: «The link between cannabis and psychosis has been an ongoing research topic since the drug became popular in the 1960s.

As Susan Jebb, professor of diet and population health at the University of Oxford, told New Scientist: «If we have learned anything from the low - fat era, it is surely that it is not as simple as one single nutrient.

But companies are in business to sell products, not to promote child health, and the connection with multinationals such as Coca - Cola presents an «ethical minefield,» argues Nick Spencer, Professor of Child Health at the University of Warwick, UK.

«Our study examined the effect of folic acid food fortification on each specific subtype of congenital heart disease based on the Canadian experience before and after food fortification was made mandatory in 1998,» said K.S. Joseph, M.D., Ph.D., the study's senior author and professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Dr. Cohen is Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the university's Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases.

Forced to abandon the project, Kaatz found her way to the then - new school of public health at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, and to Molly Carnes, who, in addition to working as a geriatrician, holds faculty appointments in three UW Madison departments and heads UW's Center for Women's Health Research.

Despite prices, promises and even ratings systems, all helmets approved for high school football players appear to offer similar protection against concussion, according to a new study from the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

«There is wide variation between colleges in binge drinking rates,» explained Toben F. Nelson, associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, as well as corresponding author for the study.

The lead researcher for the study, Professor Gita Mishra, Professor of Life Course Epidemiology and Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said: «If the findings from our study were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopause.

In 1987 the school headmistress referred the case to the Institute of Child Health at University College London.

Where other studies have linked weather phenomena to HABs, this study goes a step further to look at how environmental drivers impact each other, and «ranks» them by their relative importance in promoting HABs, said Song Liang, formerly of Ohio State and now an associate professor of environmental and global health at the University of Florida.

James Smith, director of male reproductive health at the University of California, San Francisco, who also was not part of the research, agrees these at - home tests can not offer a full picture of male fertility.

Our built environment is a recipe for health problems, from obesity to asthma to depression, says Richard Jackson, an adjunct professor of environmental health at the University of California, Berkeley.

The new evidence is solid and «very alarming,» says Chris Plowe, who runs the Institute for Global Health at the University of Maryland's School of Medicine in Baltimore.

«With one - quarter of older Mexican - American immigrants and 30 percent of Mexican - Americans born in the United States reporting substantial physical limitations, there is a clear need for providing all Mexican - American older adults with appropriate health care, particularly in light of the rapid growth of this population» says co-author Amani Nuru - Jeter, Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.

«Veterans with PTSD had a very high sleep disorder prevalence of 16 percent, the highest among the various health conditions or other population characteristics that we examined,» said Principal Investigator and senior author James Burch, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.

Regina Benjamin is the founder and CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Alabama, and has served as associate dean for rural health at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine.

Environmental health expert Sacoby Wilson, who is an assistant professor with the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health at the University of Maryland — College Park, picked up the thread of the discussion.

«Having one of these things on your wrist, you can pick up how someone's sleep is,» says Patricia Ganz of the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles.

► In this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life column, Kevin Boehnke, a doctoral candidate in public health at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, writes that his training in ancient history has given him a perspective and tools that have made him a better scientist.

«What we have found is that America has wonderful health care services for those who enjoy them,» says Lopez, today an IHME affiliate professor and the Rowden - White Chair of Global Health and Burden of Disease Measurement at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Just 38 percent of parents are very confident in schools» ability to assist a student suspected of having a mental health problem, according to a new report from the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan.

«Otherwise the worry is that we will have tried these drugs, including putting people through the potential risk of experimental treatments, and still be none the wiser about which are effective,» said Tom Solomon, director of the Institute of Infection and Global Health at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom, in a statement distributed today by the Science Media Centre.

«Our findings offer new evidence for a potentially important social determinant of health that so far has not been recognized: sudden loss of wealth in late middle or older age,» said senior author Carlos Mendes de Leon, professor of epidemiology and global public health at University of Michigan's School of Public Health.