Sentences with phrase «leading public universities»
Two of the nation's leading public universities have come together in a collaborative effort to improve how veterinary students are trained to handle unique animal welfare situations.
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The University of Toronto Master's of Public Policy (MPP) program allows second - year students to spend a semester at leading partner schools, like the Paris School of International Affairs, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.
«Our findings suggest that frequent e-cigarette use may play an important role in cessation or relapse prevention for some smokers,» Daniel Giovenco, an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the lead study author, said in a statement.
BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.
The risks of medical marijuana laws are important to convey, said lead author Deborah Hasin, of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York.
Leading research groups from the University of Toronto (which owns a 20 % stake in the West Tower), University Health Network (including Princess Margaret Cancer Centre), Ryerson University, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and Public Health Ontario.
Pitney Bowes Software University offers courses in three venues: Public, On - Site and Instructor - led Online Courses.
The CMP is a six - year research and public engagement initiative jointly led by the University of Victoria, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives» BC and Saskatchewan Offices, and the Alberta - based Parkland Institute.
A research and public engagement project investigating the power of the fossil fuel industry in Western Canada, led by the University of Victoria, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC and Saskatchewan Offices) and Parkland Institute.
The GOD, POLITICS AND THE JEWISH TRADITION SEMINAR is two - week program for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in the relevance of Judaism's political and theological dimensions to public life, led by Leora Batnitzky (Princeton University) and David Novak (University of Toronto).
Cornell University Professor William Provine, a leading historian of Darwinism, concluded from Gallup's figures that the American public simply does not understand what the scientists mean by evolution.
The company, formerly public but recently taken over by a private equity firm, still consciously tries to «do the right thing in the way that employees treat customers,» says Theodore Malloch, who leads Yale University's Spiritual Capital Initiative.
«I would rather see all those high schools go out and even if they shared an athletic trainer, I'd rather see that than see them all go out and spend money on sensors,» Dawn Comstock, a leading concussion researcher, professor at University of Colorado's School of Public Health, and member of MomsTEAM Institute's Board of Advisors, told SI.
«Lead poisoning is one of those silent epidemics,» says Dr. Jeffrey Griffiths, professor of public health at Tufts University in Boston, who has advised the EPA on water quality for some time.
So new technologies are always going to catch our eyes, and parents are always going to be tempted to buy the newest, biggest, best thing,» says Dawn Comstock, a professor at University of Colorado's School of Public Health and a leading voice on concussion research.
More organizations in Great Britain are supportive and Canadian provinces are currently transitioning to midwifery, said study lead author Patricia Janssen, director of the Master of Public Health Program at the University of British Columbia.
«The irony of Chervenak and colleagues who are leading the anti-home birth crusade is that by polarizing the issue, no one can have a reasonable discussion to try and figure how to do this best,» says Eugene Declercq, a Boston University School of Public Health professor and a CDC statistician.
Dr Amy Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Heath at Swansea University where she leads the MSc in Child Public Health.
Over half of all MPs were educated at six leading public schools, and at least 813 went to university.
Professor Rachel Gibson, from The University of Manchester, led the study which used data from a survey of national e-campaign managers and public opinion data.
News 12 Brooklyn story on BP Adams leading City University of New York (CUNY) students in a rally calling for greater affordability and investment in public higher education by the State.
This discussion has led Stuart White — who teaches political theory and directs the public policy unit at Oxford University — to post on «What is democratic republicanism?»
The Mahama - led administration has established another public University in the Eastern Region aside the University of Health and Allied Sciences and the University of Energy and Natural Resources in the Volta and Brong Ahafo Regions respectively.
The University of Birmingham established a Policy Commission on the Distribution of Wealth in September of last year to bring leading figures from the public, private and third sectors together with Birmingham academics to generate new thinking on this issue.
Like former Senator Adetunmbi, the other lead speakers, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, famed public intellectual and founding vice-chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State (the South West critique) and Dr. Charles Akinola (who as director - general, Osun Office of Economic Development and Partnerships, is the policy wonk strutting the Osun safety - net programmes), discharged themselves creditably.
Manchester Policy Blogs is one of the ways in which we are opening up communications between ourselves, policy audiences and the wider public about the policy implications of our work as a world - leading University.
SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher said, «Governor Cuomo has positioned New York and its public university system to lead the world in nanotechnology innovation that is creating jobs and fueling our economy.
It will be led by Professor Nicholas Watson, Chair of Disability Studies at the University of Glasgow and Professor James Mitchell, Professor of Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh.
New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio leads former transit chairman Joe Lhota by 44 - percentage point margin, a Quinnipiac University poll released this afternoon found.
Led in evidence by Mrs. Idowu Alakija, the State's Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Obafunwa, who is a Consultant Pathologist to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and the former Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU), said the victims of the collapsed building died due to multiple injuries, traumatic asphyxia, severe blood loss, severe fracture and compression of the skull with the brain tissue, congested heart failure against the background of hypertension and accumulation of blood in the chest cavity.
In a Quinnipiac University poll, de Blasio, the city's public advocate, leads Lhota, a former deputy mayor and ex-MTA chief, 66 to 25 percent among likely voters.
Michelle Peace at Virginia Commonwealth University is leading a project that examines drug use and abuse involving vaping, with a view to educating the public and providing information to law enforcement, medical examiners and forensic scientists.
The rise of tuberculosis (TB) in Zimbabwe during the socio - economic crisis of 2008 - 9 has been linked to widespread food shortage, according to a new study led by Canadian researchers from the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health published in PLOS ONE.
In a study led by University of Louisville biostatistician Doug Lorenz, Ph.D., associate professor, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, the reliability and accuracy of a nine — member expert panel was measured in determining the likelihood of abuse in more than 2,000 cases.
«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.
«But nobody has yet figured out a way to translate the information gathered by these devices into measures of health and longevity, let alone monetize this information — until now,» says S. Jay Olshansky, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and chief scientist at Lapetus Solutions, who is lead author on the paper.
«Our finding that news reporting on obesity as a public health crisis brought on by bad personal choices can worsen anti-fat prejudice and increase people's willingness to charge obese men and women more for insurance» said David Frederick, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Chapman University and lead author on the study.
The findings, led by first author E. Whitney Evans, a postdoctoral research fellow at Brown University and the Weight Control and Diabetes Center at The Miriam Hospital, are published online in the journal Public Health Nutrition.
«Public opinion regarding climate change is likely to remain divided as long as the political elites send out conflicting messages on this issue,» lead researcher Robert Brulle, a professor of sociology and environmental science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said in a statement.
Joshua Busby is an assistant professor of public affairs at the University of Texas and one of the lead researchers in the Strauss Center project on Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS), a $ 7.6 million grant funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
«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.
«I think one of the main things that we can take away from this is children are a really critical audience for environmental programs,» said lead author Hilary Boudet of Oregon State University's School of Public Policy.
• According to a survey of members of the Association of American Universities and the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities, Jeffrey Mervis wrote on Monday, federal government sequestration has led to fewer student positions (31 % of respondents), a reduction in temporary or part - time staff positions (30 % of respnodents), and a decline in postdoctoral fellows (24 % of respondents).
«The crisis in Flint brought the true costs of a neglected infrastructure to the nation's attention, but in the finger - pointing there are deeper debates over public and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Afpublic and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Afpublic health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health AfPublic Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health AfPublic Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Affairs.
W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, led the scientific team that identified the first U.S. outbreak of West Nile virus in 1999.
Results of the two - year phase 2 trial — conducted by a consortium led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard School of Public Health, and the University of Rochester — are being published in JAMA Neurology.
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According to Series lead Professor Boyd Swinburn from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, «The key to meeting WHO's target to achieve no further increase in obesity rates by 2025 will be strengthening accountability systems to support government leadership, constraining the role of the food industry in the formation of public policy, and encouraging civil society to create a demand for healthy food environments.»
One group of archaeologists, led by Anthony Harding, president of the European Association of Archaeologists and a professor at the University of Exeter, wrote an open letter to the Bosnian government denouncing the pyramids as a «cruel hoax on an unsuspecting public.»
He is dean of the science faculty at Monash University in Australia and lead scientist for research on developing bacteria - infected mosquitoes as a public health tool.