Sentences with phrase «including epidemiology»

Our work with expert witnesses has given us an in - depth understanding of numerous medical and scientific fields, including epidemiology; oncology; pulmonology; cardiology; radiology; pathology; toxicology; and issues dealing with calculating exposures, risk assessments, and dose response.

In Volume 2, Forensic Science, we have compiled a science / medical reference with hard - to - find data on injury and injury mechanism topics, to prove causation and damages for a variety of crash types and crash injuries, including epidemiology, injury risk by crash type, injury pattern analysis, biomechanics, and more.

Published in Environmental Health Perspectives, this groundbreaking alliance is called Project TENDR (Targeting Environmental Neuro - Developmental Risks) and includes 48 of the country's top scientists, health professionals and health advocates, across many disciplines and sectors, including epidemiology, toxicology, exposure science, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, nursing, public health, and federal and state chemical policy.

Representing a significant investment in federal tobacco regulatory science, the new centers will be comprised of scientists with expertise in fields including epidemiology, behavior, biology, medicine, economics, chemistry, toxicology, addictions, public health, communications and marketing.

The life sciences — notably including epidemiology, environmental health, molecular biology, medicine, and pharmacology — have long drawn on statistics.

Nick's particular research interests include the epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment of communicable diseases afflicting rural populations throughout Asia and beyond.

My major research interests include the epidemiology, natural history, pathogenesis, and laboratory evaluation of transfusion - associated infections, blood safety implications of new and emerging viruses, and immunological consequences of transfusion.

Common topics of study at the bachelor's level include epidemiology, pathology, health services management and more.

Not exact matches

Other members include colleagues from various AOECS Member countries in the fields of cereal and food technology, dietetics / nutrition, epidemiology, gastroenterology, genetics, immunology, pathology, paediatrics and psychosocial aspects.

«The results of this study demonstrate that the K - D test is an accurate and reliable method for identifying athletes with head trauma, and is a strong candidate for a rapid sideline screening test for concussion, [with] particular relevance to contact sports including football, soccer, hockey, MMA and boxing,» wrote co-author, Dr. Laura J. Balcer of the Department of Neurology, Opthalmology, and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Perinatal mortality includes stillbirths (babies born with no signs of life after 24 weeks of pregnancy or weighing at least 500 grammes) and the deaths of babies within 28 days of being born (National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre, 2013).

In addition to clinicians, consumers, health professional educators, insurers, lawyers, ethicists, administrators, and policy makers, the participants included researchers with expertise in epidemiology, public health, sociology, medical anthropology, legal, health policy and clinical research.

Research interests of the more than 200 doctoral - level faculty include AIDS, GIS, maternal and child health, hospital epidemiology, infectious diseases, environmental and occupational health, eldercare, minority health and health disparities.

Speakers will include Dr. Barbara Wallace, Columbia University, Teacher's College; Dr. Mardia Stone, MD, PhD, Health Advisor to Liberian Government; Eluemuno Blyden, PhD, Virologist AfriVax; Dr. Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, NYC DOHMH Assistant Commissioner; Dana March, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University; Rudolph Pyatt, Deputy General Counsel, NYC Commission on Human Rights; Assistant Commissioner Israel Rosario of the Mayor's Office on Immigrant Affairs; Christina Farrell, Deputy Commissioner for External Affairs, New York City Office of Emergency Management; and Health and Hospitals Corporation President Dr. Raju Ramanathan, MD, MBA, FACS, FACHE.

Epidemiology studies have linked low sperm counts not only to aging but also to being too fat, being too thin, lack of exercise, excessive exercise, junk food, soda, exposure to toxins in food and air, and use of both prescription and nonprescription drugs, including tobacco and alcohol.

They may have done a thesis with a translational focus, but few will have received training in the requirements for doing modern patient - oriented research, which includes large doses of epidemiology, statistics, and human - subject trial design.

The guideline recommendations were developed by a multinational and multidisciplinary panel of oncology, obstetrics / gynecology, public health, cancer control, epidemiology / biostatistics, health economics, behavioral / implementation science, and patient advocacy experts, including some of the world's foremost research leaders on HPV and HPV vaccines.

Opportunities exist for people with expertise including infectious diseases, epidemiology, molecular biology, immunology, and biostatistics,» says Eileen Barry, with the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.

Co-author Professor Fabio Levi (MD), Head of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, (Switzerland), said: «Besides enforcing tobacco control — essentially by increasing taxation — national governments and EU policy makers must ensure that all EU citizens have access to the best screening, diagnosis and treatment, including those from central and eastern Europe where major delays are still observed and where cancer mortality rates tend to be higher as a result.»

The research led by Fernando Genta and Hector Diaz at the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC) in Rio, Brazil included Rod Dillon of Lancaster University as well as participants from the Laboratories of Molecular Biology of Insects; Epidemiology and Molecular Systematics; and Ecoepidemiology of Chagas disease at Oswaldo Cruz Institute.

«Students interested in this area could enter into any number of fields in addition to immunology research, including public health, epidemiology, and health economics,» she says.

Gire et al. describe Ebola epidemiology on the basis of 99 whole - genome sequences, including samples from 78 affected individuals.

Twenty - first century science is driven, in large part, by challenges at interfaces, including those between the environmental and life sciences — public health, ecology, genomics, cell biology, epidemiology, immunology, neurobiology, physiology, evolutionary biology... and the mathematical sciences.

The remaining 5 % or so are in diverse fields including the social sciences, humanities, economics, anthropology, and epidemiology.

In addition to He and Dibaba, other contributors included Pengcheng Xun, a faculty member in IU's Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Kuninobu Yokota of The Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan; and Emily White of the University of Washington in Seattle.

Emory co-authors included assistant professors Lori Bean, PhD, Tracie Rosser, PhD and David Cutler, PhD, in the Department of Human Genetics, and Jennifer Mulle, PhD, assistant professor of epidemiology in the Rollins School of Public Health.

«HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the world, and is a risk factor for several cancers, including cervical, vaginal, vulvar, oropharyngeal [throat / tonsil], anal, and penile cancer,» says Eduardo L. Franco, Professor and Director of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology at McGill University.

- CER researchers come from a range of professional disciplines including clinical medicine, epidemiology, bioinformatics, biostatistics, health services research, economics, methods research, decision and cognitive sciences, genomics, proteomics, library science, communications, as well as other areas.

Published online in the International Journal of Epidemiology, a new study of 80,342 participants, including 15,220 current smokers, from the Copenhagen General Population Study has shown that smokers who consume a high amount of tobacco are more likely to weigh less.

The team spanned 16 institutions and included first authors Robert Igo, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Natalie Afshari, MD, FACS, Professor of Opthalmology at University of California San Diego.

The institutions which participate in the project belong to the Biohealth Research Institute in Granada, and they include the University of Granada, the University of Granada Hospital, the Andalusian School of Public Health, CIBER in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), and the Granada Cancer Register.

protected animals»); studies on in vitro systems (whole perfused organs, tissue slices, cell and tissue cultures, and subcellular fractions); and human studies (including estimations of occupational and environmental exposure, postmarketing surveillance, epidemiology, and the ethical and strictly controlled use of human volunteers).

Women in this study were identified using the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a medical records database that includes the complete inpatient and outpatient records of all medical providers in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

Other MSU researchers involved in the study include Chenxi Li, assistant professor in epidemiology and biostatistics, Karl Seydel, assistant professor of internal and tropical medicine and Terrie E. Taylor, University Distinguished Professor in tropical medicine.

Professor Elaine Dennison, Professor of Musculoskeletal Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology within Medicine at the University of Southampton, noted: «Among the challenges in carrying out this study was the great heterogeneity in the RCTs, including in the exercise protocols and in the dosage of supplementation, all of which contributes to the variable findings between studies.

It was a rich and rewarding workplace for a novice, surrounded by people who were experts in disparate aspects of tuberculosis research including clinical trials, epidemiology, and immunopathology.

To address these topics, he applies methods from fields including molecular genetics, neuroendocrinology, behavioral economics, social psychology, and life - course epidemiology.

Fukuda said the committee would be drawn from a roster established under International Health Regulations and include experts in public health, epidemiology, virology and related fields.

«Coronary artery disease tends to cluster in families and has a strong genetic basis; however, we do not fully understand that genetic foundation,» said senior author Danish Saleheen, PhD, an assistant professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Penn. «We conducted the largest genetic analyses on coronary artery disease to date, including information from people of European, African, South Asian, and East Asian heritages.»

Data were collected using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-18 database, which includes information from 18 American cancer registries.

The study included 935 community dwelling participants of ICELAND MI, a substudy of the AGES - Reykjavik epidemiology study.

The aim of the Interdisciplinary Training in Cancer Research training program is to train young scientists to design and conduct research on significant problems in cancer by combining information and approaches from different scientific disciplines, including basic cellular and molecular biology, epidemiology, clinical trials and studies, and behavioral - social sciences.

IRTA offers expertise and facilities to internal and external clients (academic and industry) for fundamental and applied research on bacterial and viral vaccines, including expertise on pigs, poultry and ruminants in the fields of epidemiology, microbiology, virology, immunology, pathology, molecular biology, and entomology.

The content of the meeting includes state - of - the - art information on the latest treatments, research, models of care, epidemiology, genetics, and much more.

Fallin's interests are in applying genetic epidemiology methods to studies of neuropsychiatric disorders including autism, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder and in developing applications and methods for epigenetic epidemiology, particularly as applied to mental health and development.

Its comprehensive strategy includes funding for an epidemiology study; a well - characterized cohort recruitment; pathogenesis discovery research; and a Mechanism of Illness grant program that will fund additional research.

The meeting explored the genomic epidemiology of the host, vector and parasite, highlighting the practical relevance of this research to global health, including antimalarial drug resistance, insecticide resistance, vaccine design, and mechanisms of protective immunity.

Students complete the Health Policy and Management Departmental core requirements, including courses in health policy, epidemiology, and biostatistics.

The families were ascertained from multiple sites, including contributors to the Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium (ADGC), and the neurology working group of the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology consortium (CHARGE).

Other co-authors of the study include: Dr. Gang Zeng, UCLA associate professor in the department of urology and Dr. Zuo - Feng Zhang, professor in the department of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.