Sentences with phrase «important global public»

The most important global public health agreement of the century.

Here I'll examine whether climate change is likely to be the most important global public health problem if not today, at least in the foreseeable future.

It exposes infant feeding as one of the most important global public health issues of our time, and describes how big business and vested interests influence the intimate relationship between mothers and their babies to the detriment of all, rich or poor, in the West or in the developing world.

Not exact matches

Just this week, Will Carty, manager of public policy for Twitter, wrote a blog post praising reclassification as «critical to American economic aspirations and our nation's global competitiveness» with «important implications for freedom of expression.»

A report released by the Global Public Policy Institute and the Mercator Institute for China Studies, both of which are based in Germany, said Europe's economic ties with China are more important than those it has with Russia, and the stakes associated with calling out Beijing are much higher.

Foreign Affairs LIVE convenes the world's foremost policymakers, business leaders and public intellectuals to discuss the most important global, regional and industry developments of our day.

Scaling up organic agriculture with appropriate public policies and private investment is an important step for global food and ecosystem security.

It is really important that we continue to make breastfeeding in public a normal and supported part of having a child,» said Joanne Edwards, Big Latch On Global Coodinator.

The findings of this study contribute accurate and reliable data to the global estimates, and have important implications for public health programmes to improve maternal and newborn survival.

As New York City struggles to recover from the global financial crisis, it is critically important that the city have the resources to maintain public safety.

«Because of our nation's childhood and teenage obesity public health crises, it is important to raise awareness about how companies are using celebrities popular with these audiences to market their unhealthy products,» said Dr. Bragg, who is also a faculty member at the NYU College of Global Public Hpublic health crises, it is important to raise awareness about how companies are using celebrities popular with these audiences to market their unhealthy products,» said Dr. Bragg, who is also a faculty member at the NYU College of Global Public HPublic Health.

«Animal disease reservoirs are extremely important for global public health.

Atmospheric contamination due to heavy metals is currently a severe problem of global proportions, with important repercussions in public health.

«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 Hpublic health at University of Michigan's School of Public HPublic Health.

We believe that genetic variation is an important factor contributing to this risk or resilience,» said senior author Karestan Koenen, professor of psychiatric epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health who leads the Global Neuropsychiatric Genomics Initiative of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute.

In an accompanying editorial, David Goldblatt, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D., of the UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London, and Elizabeth Miller, F.R.C.Path., of Public Health England, London, write that the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts recently decided to revisit the issue of nonspecific effects of vaccines as part of its continued appraisal of important issues that could be relevant to inform global immunization policy.

ISPRA, Italy — The landscape is familiar to science policy experts on both sides of the Atlantic: To address serious global problems and to take advantage of important future discoveries, they will have to work effectively with elected officials and members of the public who have complex and sometimes conflicting values and interests.

One strong candidate to replace Lee would be Mexican health minister Julio Frenk Mora, who introduced universal health care coverage in his country and has emerged as an important voice in global health, says Gerald Keusch, associate dean for global health at Boston University School of Public Health.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

We're rolling out new workshops and webinars on topics like Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis (PSHA) and computational seismology, providing enhanced support for student and early - career members, and creating a strong network of advocates for geosciences — more important now than ever before — through our public policy programs in Washington, D.C. Membership is an introduction to a growing and global community preparing for our first joint meeting with the Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission in April 2018.

Vinetz said the next step will be to begin exploiting the genomic information «for vaccine and diagnostics development, experimental approaches to understanding mechanisms of disease pathogenesis and how Leptospira persist in the environment, all critical for developing new public health interventions aimed at reducing the global impact of this important but neglected zoonotic disease.»

A nanotechnology - inspired grand challenge is an ambitious but achievable goal that harnesses nanoscience, nanotechnology, and innovation to solve important national or global problems and has the potential to capture the public's imagination.

In a 2008 presentation, Dunn stated «I assert that warm is good for human health and that global warming, even the most extreme estimates, will not create heat illness or death increases and certainly no changes that are more important than the basic public health measures of vector control, water, nutrition, sewage and water quality, and housing quality.»

The ceremony is part of Kavli Prize Week - a week of special programs that celebrate extraordinary achievements in science, educate the public on important scientific advances, and bring together distinguished members of the international community to discuss key global issues in science and science policy.

«There has never been a more important time for scientists to speak out with a clear message to the public and to our legislators about the value science brings to us as diverse individuals, as a nation, and as a global community,» said Williams in his speech.

The leaves and seeds of moringa may protect against some of the effects of arsenic toxicity, which is especially important in light of news that common staple foods, such as rice, may be contaminated.13 Contamination of ground water by arsenic has also become a cause of global public health concern, and one study revealed: 14

The commitments made by the EU, US and the Global Alliance for Children (a grouping of public and private bodies) set an important precedent for other donors.

Foreign language instruction is an important part of Virginia's efforts to provide challenging educational programs in its public schools and to prepare students to compete in global society.

Mr. Lazaridis said that he decided to move from Co-Chair to Vice Chair of the Board in order to return the public's focus to what is most important: «the great company we have built, its iconic products, global brand and its talented employees.»

Under the leadership of Creative Time Executive Director Katie Hollander, Thompson and Dyangani Ose will collaborate on a full slate of dynamic, engaging public art and programming, with an eye toward cultivating a broader global audience; all while remaining committed to presenting important art for its times that transcend geographic, racial, and socioeconomic barriers.

The partnership builds on the expansive and important histories of both Pace and Futurecity, bridging Pace's extensive global resources with Futurecity's innovative approach to developing large scale commissions for artists in the public realm.

Unfortunately for policymakers and the public, while the basic science pointing to a rising human influence on climate is clear, many of the most important questions will remain surrounded by deep complexity and uncertainty for a long time to come: the pace at which seas will rise, the extent of warming from a certain buildup of greenhouse gases (climate sensitivity), the impact on hurricanes, the particular effects in particular places (what global warming means for Addis Ababa or Atlanta).

The wedge / identity politics success is probably largely to blame for the inability of the US to move forward consistently (or at all) on important public policy — global leadership on climate change or national gun control policy come to mind, right off the top.

The Advisory Board plays an important part in establishing our long term thematic research agenda into global sustainability issues, such as poverty, climate change, ecosystem services, biodiversity, pandemics, demographics, migration, public policy and responsible lobbying.

In an interview regarding an issue of vast importance such as global warming, a science writer (who himself knows important components of the «big picture» answer to a question of vital importance) asks someone else the question without ultimately providing a full answer to the public, perhaps leaving many people thinking that the question really doesn't have a comprehensive and sensible answer.

This might be an important resource to persuade the general public of the reality about global warming (climate crisis!).

While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address climate change, the House global warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top climate scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the need for swift action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate climate change emissions.

That's particularly important for those concerned about the impacts the global coal industry has on our health and environment because Germany is currently the third largest source of international public financing for coal.

PAGES» main areas of focus include: - Facilitating international research activities on past environmental changes - Promoting the synthesis of scientific knowledge and data - Strengthening the involvement of scientists from developing countries - Integrating the paleoscience and wider global environmental change communities - Disseminating important research findings and organizational information - Supporting scientific training and education - Integrating scientific evidence from observations and modeling - Ensuring public access to paleoscientific data - Enhancing the visibility and use of paleoresearch

And publics around the world believe that such lifestyle changes will be more important than technological change in combatting global warming.

I am trying to make the point that estimating the global economic impact of global warming GHG emissions and mitigation policies is critically important for justifying public expenditure on policies.

Studies of the global carbon cycle often identify biomass energy as being among the most important potential benefits associated with the forest industry value chain...» They then go on to worry that the use of paper fiber (biomass) for fuel would cause ``... - market - distorting public policies that disproportionately favor the use of these materials for their fuel value, - public policies that fail to recognize the direct and indirect economic and social benefits associated with using biomass as a feed stock for forest products manufacturing,...».

If anyone is interested, I have looked at some important data that became public from CRU which seems to be to close the case global warming (man - made or otherwise).

There again, perhaps Trump is right and it is all «a Chinese hoax»: a Chapman University (California) poll found that those surveyed were more afraid of clowns than global warming; a recent Bloomberg poll found that only 10 % of the American public saw global warming as the most important issue facing their country.

Given the significance of climate change research in public policy, the study's results also provide important response to critics of global warming.

That short chapter is important because Oreskes totally misinterprets the «memos» as Big Coal's plan for a vast national campaign with paid climate scientists that created the lasting public doubt about global warming.

«Perhaps the most important function of climate science on an issue of broad interest like global warming is to help educate the public and to provide useful input into the policy process.

With a global deal to limit greenhouse gases on the table at the UN's climate change conference in Paris this year, it's more important than ever that we build strong public support so world leaders know: the time to take climate action is now!

I wholeheartedly agree that rational public discourse on this supremely important global issue requires an authoritative, lie - exposing, truth - telling website authored by an informed & credible & articulate climate scientist.

With a global deal to limit greenhouse gas emissions on the table at the UN's climate conference in Paris this year, it's more important than ever that we build strong public support so world leaders know: we want a clean, healthy, and prosperous future — and getting there starts with stopping climate change.