Sentences with phrase «human health areas»

To date, it appears the Interagency Working Group has worked to identify federal research and science needs in broad human health areas likely to be affected by climate change.

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The Health and Human Services Department deployed assets to Texas and Louisiana ahead of Harvey's landfall, moving six teams of emergency medical responders to the Dallas area as well as teams to support medical personnel in both states.
A key area where enhanced visual analysis will have an impact is health care, a field in which, Banavar notes, human workers have to analyze high volumes of visual information.
Pruitt is hardly the most egregious offender in the Cabinet in some of these areas — former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin both racked up travel bills topping $ 1 million.
And as technology enables more salaried employees to work from home, and even on their vacations, some employers are becoming more tolerant of lateness, said George Faulkner, a principal with the health and benefits area of Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
What it is: The National Health Service Corps, a division of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, helps bring health care to those in impoverished, remote, or otherwise underserved Health Service Corps, a division of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, helps bring health care to those in impoverished, remote, or otherwise underserved Health & Human Services, helps bring health care to those in impoverished, remote, or otherwise underserved health care to those in impoverished, remote, or otherwise underserved areas.
However, a larger contribution by ministers and churches is in the area of prevention of mental ill health by fostering positive human fulfillment.
In all four areas of mental health opportunity, a local church needs to develop its own master plan and strategy, to make its own unique contribution to the meeting of human needs.
A third area of focus for continuing education that is relevant for the achievement of mental health is concerned with the meaning of religion in relation to the meanings of the other disciplines of human thought.
Maternal Infant Health Program Coordinator at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Jackie Moline, BSN, RN, CLC explains that the department's focus has been to increase the number of Certified Lactation Counselors (CLCs) in their state, especially in rural areas, through a scholarship program.
As humans rapidly develop the Massachusetts landscape, Mass Audubon is working with state officials and other organizations to protect important areas for wildlife and environmental health.
showed that the top reason mothers donated milk was that it was recommended by a health care professional so this is certainly an area where IBCLCs can have an impact regarding improving access to the gold standard of infant nutrition — human milk.
Her feature stories on area businesses, human interest, and health and fitness appear in her local newspaper.
Thus far, he has won reductions in spending on health, human services and other areas, leaving the most contentious items to the end.
Bongiorno has 13 years of lobbying experience, representing clients before the Legislature, executive chamber, state agencies and local government, primarily in the areas of health care, insurance, human services, professional licensure, higher education and public safety.
It is our responsibility to continue to adequately fund three areas: health, human services and public safety.
Child & Family Services of Erie County This agency provides over 40 programs for children and families in the areas mental health and human services.
As a AAAS S&T Policy Fellow in the Health, Education & Human Services program (HEHS) placed in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Biosafety and Biosecurity, Jean leads the development of a biorisk management policy newsletter that aims to connect policy makers and promote awareness among those working in the areas of biosafety and biosecurity policy.
Members interested in this area of work aim to expand the impact of the Coalition's work by growing the Coalition membership and building bridges with scientific, engineering, and health professionals as well as the human rights community.
Members interested in this area of work aim to identify, compile and develop resources and create opportunities for exchange in order to establish a stronger foundation for productive, collaborative human rights efforts, and contribute to the professional development of science, engineering and health teachers and human rights educators.
However, much more can be achieved when the science, engineering and health communities embrace human rights as an area suitable for and deserving of robust inquiry, and become an influential voice in the defense of human rights.
Members interested in this area of work aim to raise the visibility of human rights principles as part of the practice of science and its applications, linking ethics codes that guide the scientific, engineering and health communities to human rights principles.
Members interested in this area of work aim to strengthen communication between the scientific, engineering and health communities and human rights organizations to identify human rights efforts that could benefit from scientific approaches, tools and technologies, and then assist in making these accessible to human rights practitioners.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made major investments in network approaches in many areas, including cancer biology, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, neurophysiology, and human genetics and genomics.
Humans living in densely populated urban areas have a profound impact not only on their physical environment, but also on the health and fitness of native wildlife.
Because the center is made up of four diverse divisions (Public Health Sciences, Basic Sciences, Clinical Research, and Human Biology), the talks cover something outside a member's direct area of expertise most of the time, which makes for an eager and enthusiastic audience.
«This study, and specifically the concern that biomass grown and burned in polluted areas is potentially more toxic to human health, is additional evidence that human activities have consequences not yet explored and therefore not understood,» she said.
Academic research is curiosity driven, not market driven, and responds to the search for knowledge and understanding in areas as diverse as health, culture, social constructs, astronomy, education, economics, particle physics... a list of topics as diverse as the human imagination.
Results from humans show several areas of the prefrontal cortex are strongly involved in dominance and hierarchy, says Andreas Meyer - Lindenberg of the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany.
What I especially like about working for UKHTB is that it offers a new challenge and is pioneering in an area that has the potential to benefit human health through the enhanced development of new drugs and diagnostic tools.
In a global culture increasingly driven by scientific and technological innovation, research in areas ranging from microbial genomes to the human brain will become ever more inextricably linked to public health, medicine, and industry.
They can also reach populated areas, affecting air quality and human health.
Rivet recommends that the «availability of human refuse in natural areas inhabited by bears should be eliminated for bear, as well as human, health and safety,» adding that, «diets of captive [bears] should be carefully selected to avoid high saturated [fat] content.»
Dr Liz Rylott, who co-lead the research at CNAP added: «Areas of land contaminated with explosives are a threat to human health and the environment.
«If our interpretation is correct, then reducing the amount of black carbon or soot may help diminish the intensity of floods in the south and droughts in the northern areas of China, in addition to having human health benefits,» notes co-author James Hansen of the Goddard Institute.
As in most areas of science directly related to human health, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are the major players, with the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) playing a dominanthealth, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are the major players, with the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) playing a dominantHealth (NIH) are the major players, with the National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) playing a dominant role.
Jessica Wyndham, Interim Director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program (SRHRL) opened the meeting, noting that both the scientific and human rights communities are on alert, evaluating the statements and watching closely the actions of the new US administration in areas including climate change, the environment, health, reproductive rights, and freedom of information and freedom of expresHuman Rights and Law Program (SRHRL) opened the meeting, noting that both the scientific and human rights communities are on alert, evaluating the statements and watching closely the actions of the new US administration in areas including climate change, the environment, health, reproductive rights, and freedom of information and freedom of expreshuman rights communities are on alert, evaluating the statements and watching closely the actions of the new US administration in areas including climate change, the environment, health, reproductive rights, and freedom of information and freedom of expression.
If you are not working in an area of research that's critical to human health, it probably doesn't matter, but in the case of the flu and avian flu, most recently, this is an area that is of critical importance with health.
Some of the groups participating in this includes U.S. CDC and World Health Organization, the WHO, and these are groups that they do a wonderful job at protecting human health around the world in many different areas, but their mission really is to protect human health and they need to recognize that keeping a private database of flu samples is not the best way to serve that miHealth Organization, the WHO, and these are groups that they do a wonderful job at protecting human health around the world in many different areas, but their mission really is to protect human health and they need to recognize that keeping a private database of flu samples is not the best way to serve that mihealth around the world in many different areas, but their mission really is to protect human health and they need to recognize that keeping a private database of flu samples is not the best way to serve that mihealth and they need to recognize that keeping a private database of flu samples is not the best way to serve that mission.
And few areas could be more critical than different peoples» understanding of the human mind when it comes to mental health and illness.
She ultimately chose to study leukemia patients» immune responses to bone marrow transplants, an area conducive to translational research in part because the work involves treating patients with human cells, which can be prepared at academic health centers.
«After all, our constitutional rights protect us against discrimination and should be applied to the area of health care throughout the industry — not just genetic information, not just skin color, not just body chemistry or the content and structure of one's bones — but to everything in the human condition and every pre-existing condition.
«Targeted reduction of Aedes aegypti populations in areas where they are non-native could have little environmental impact, and drastically improve human health,» said Brantley Hall, a Ph.D. student in Tu's lab and co-first author on the paper, together with Sanjay Basu, a postdoctoral associate in Adelman's lab.
By combining genetic data, ancestry information, and electronic health records, scientists are able to identify neighborhood - level patterns of migration in the New York City area, according to research presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2015 Annual Meeting in Baltimore.
«Agricultural and health organizations should encourage people to use human urine as a fertilizer,» Heinonen - Tanski concluded in the paper, especially in areas where wastewater treatment is unavailable or ineffective.
«PROBIT, the largest randomized trial ever carried out in the area of human lactation, continues to yield scientifically and clinically important information more than two decades after its inception,» says Dr. Michael Kramer, from McGill's Faculty of Medicine and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC), the Principal Investigator on the PROBIT study.
«The noise levels we found can be harmful to visitor experiences in these areas, and can be harmful to human health, and to wildlife,» she said.
The School of Engineering's mission is to educate engineers committed to the innovative and ethical application of science and technology in addressing the most pressing societal needs, to develop and nurture twenty - first century leadership qualities in its students, faculty, and alumni, and to create and disseminate transformational new knowledge and technologies that further the well - being and sustainability of society in such cross-cutting areas as human health, environmental sustainability, alternative energy, and the human - technology interface.
BETHESDA, MD — By combining genetic data, ancestry information, and electronic health records, scientists are able to identify neighborhood - level patterns of migration in the New York City area, according to research presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2015 Annual Meeting in Baltimore.
Our research also encompasses other areas of human health, highlighting our strategy to give scientists the freedom to follow their research wherever it leads.
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