Sentences with phrase «major global public»

Worm infections represent a major global public health problem, leading to a variety of debilitating diseases and conditions, such as anemia, elephantiasis, growth retardation and dysentery.

Lead author Dr Matthew Jones says, «Smoking during pregnancy is a major global public health issue: a conservative estimate for the annual economic burden in the UK is # 23.5 million and in the US $ 110 million.

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But at a time when the public sector has made a major resurgence in the global economy in the wake of the economic collapse, Barton feels McKinsey is still «looking through a keyhole» at public - sector issues.

Need proof, check out the global Empathy Index, which analyzes the ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception and public social media messaging of 170 companies listed on major financial indexes.

We represents leading global corporations, growth and middle - market companies, capital markets participants and entrepreneurs in every major industry group as well as public sector entities, educational institutions, philanthropic organizations and individuals.

Without major public efforts in this field, the global super information highway is not likely to include the two billion people who live on less than $ 300 a year, or the more than 1 billion people who are illiterate and some 500 million children for whom there are no schools.

Through the Consumer Goods Forum, the CDP / We Mean Business Coalition, and the public - private Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, hundreds of major companies have committed to eliminating commodity - driven deforestation from their supply chains by 2020, including companies that account for 90 percent of the global trade in palm oil.

However, there is a need for progress to meet tomorrow's agricultural, environmental and societal challenges, to be vital for public health and wellbeing and to have a major impact on global food systems.

SportsInsights tracks public opinion on major sporting events by monitoring the pulse of the global sports marketplace.

Pop is a sophomore from Chandler, AZ, majoring in public policy and global health.

According to President Buhari, «In 2017 alone, we saw significant commitments and agreements by major global organisations in infrastructure projects such as: the proposed USD 9 billion Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical complex in Lagos; the completed USD 600 million Lafarge Plant in Calabar; the proposed rail stock; the proposed USD 1.3 billion public private partnership with General Electric on Rail Track Development and the proposed ENI / Agip rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery.

Problems resulting from these deficiencies — such as blindness, anemia and death, particularly among children and women — are a major public health challenge,» said Dr. Saurabh Mehta, associate professor of global health, epidemiology and nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and a senior author on this new research.

At the same time, a significant portion of the American public questions whether global warming will really cause any major harm; many still doubt that human - driven warming is happening at all.

An internationally - recognized scientist with more than 16 years of experience in translational immunoparasitology research and vaccine development for neglected tropical diseases, Bottazzi's major interest lies in the role of vaccines as control tools integrated into international public and global health programs and initiatives.

When it comes to major environmental problems such as global warming, he believes that our ability to cope depends on a broad - based educational push for earth sciences, of the kind we already have for biology and public health.

«What is a nuisance for rich - country researchers (constant emails) is a major corruption for developing - country science — a corruption of the legitimate and vital open - access publishing model and a corruption of the vast funds, much of which are public, invested in global health research.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a public - private partnership backed by the U.S., France, Japan, the Gates Foundation and others, has had some recent funding troubles and allegations of corruption, and it recently underwent some major restructuring.

«Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health problem and identifying new drug targets and candidate drugs is a major priority,» said David S. Perlin, Executive Director and Professor at the Public Health Research Institute and Rutgers Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at the International Center for Public Health at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark.

«The Meningitis Vaccine Project is one of the greatest success stories in public health,» said Dr. Chris Elias, President of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of the project.

By February 2016, the World Health Organization had declared the epidemic a global public health emergency, based largely on the virus» newly - established link to microcephaly and other major birth defects in babies born to infected mothers.

Actually, it's due to the polls cited in the article — and those I have seen elsewhere — that suggest that the American public thinks, among other things, that scientists are still trying to determine if global warming is for real and that it's a major issue in the upcoming Presidential election.

Even so, the complex vaccine will be expensive by developing world standards, and its cost - effectiveness is a major issue for vaccine developers and public health experts, says Scott Filler of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

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.

Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have documented the accuracy of three new tests for more rapidly diagnosing drug - resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB), which are much harder and more expensive to treat and which, experts say, represent a major threat to global public health.

Antimicrobial resistance posed by superbugs has been a major public health issue of global concern.

This advanced nuclear power plant has major appeal in domestic and international markets, offering a right - sized, cost - effective solution for carbon - free energy, and ensuring attainable power options to existing and emerging global economies demanding increased certainty of public safety, environmental protection and security from intrusion and proliferation of nuclear materials.

deCODE is a global leader in gene discovery — our population approach and resources have enabled us to isolate key genes contributing to major public health challenges from cardiovascular disease to cancer, genes that are providing us with drug targets rooted in the basic biology of disease.

A major public health issue, depression is estimated to become one of the top three contributors to the global burden of diseases within a few years.

The event, organised by Northumbrian Water Group (NWG), will see major national and global companies working with other businesses, universities, schools and members of the public to look at a range of issues, including flooding, the environment and social inclusion.

Chillida's collecting base is truly global with examples in major collections, both public and private, throughout the Americas, Asia and Europe.

Focusing on those major group exhibitions and events which jettisoned Russian artists to international attention, or introduced Russian publics to Western art stars, the book provides readers with a unique perspective into the dawning of the global art world.

«Taking climate change as the 21st century's major global threat, this paper considers three significant public relations challenges arising from it.

The public, especially in the U.S. has lost interest in the global warming issue mainly due to the fact that there has been a lack of extreme heat and major U.S. hurricane landfalls in the last few years.

Limiting human harm to environments is a major challenge and we applaud all efforts to increase the public utility of global - change science.

It is very, very hard to hear about a «disengaged» public from a major media player, i.e., the Times, that seems to think that its coverage of global warming is as good as it can be, as good as it should be, and so forth and that also seems to think that better coverage wouldn't make a difference anyhow.

In the 10th edition of American Government, published in 2005, the authors discuss four types of politics that define the government's response to major public concerns such as environmental policy (limited to several pages in the 600 - page text, less than two of which are devoted to global warming).

Moreover, it would not solve the problem of ocean acidification — sometimes referred to as «global warming's evil twin» — a major threat to marine ecosystems that only 20 % of the British public has ever heard of.

Advocates of global warming policy have to be simultaneously successful in all four major public arenas to prevail.

But despite the onslaught from the influential denialists, the fact remains that — according to Oreskes» own figures — 62 % of the US public «believe that life on Earth will continue without major disruptions only if society takes immediate and drastic action to reduce global warming».

IPCC reports contribute to global public policy debates and processes, which may have major effects on the daily lives of every person in the world.

If the major records go on reporting divergent results which are not representative of the global surface temperature, then it seems likely that this will continue to be a source of confusion to the public.

Perhaps reflecting major declines in media reporting, global warming has also dropped in public consciousness.

That is decidedly not how this paper is used in public discourse though, I think in many instances this paper is used to say that not only do humans cause global warming, but they are also the major cause and the degree of effect on nature / climate is in some way dangerous and needs to be mitigated.

And many of those years were when Joe Public had been persuaded that The Science Was Settled and Global Warming was a major problem that we needed to fix.

It is apparently now «headline news» that the man who will be in charge of all of our public lands, which are being devastated by human - caused climate change — some of which was caused by fossil fuels extracted from those lands — doesn't believe there is a massive conspiracy carried out by the entire global scientific community and literally every single major government in the world, including our own, to fool the public and media.

«It has taken 25 years — since the global warming problem was first recognized as a major public issue — to get to this stage, with climate change preparedness planning and action being framed as a U.S. presidential order to the Executive Branch.»

Please reevaluate and update us on the accuracy and significance of global warming models in light of this evidence and the need for very high significance in climate science to justify major changes in public policy.

This is extraordinary when one considers how the mainstream media, the curriculums in the nation's schools, and the unceasing efforts of major environmental organizations have tried to impose the global warming claims on the public.

««Sen. Inhofe Delivers Major Speech on the Science of Climate Change «Catastrophic global warming alarmism not based on objective science» Part 1,» U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, July 28, 2003.

I believe Mr. singer «s conclusion is well founded:» I would like to see the public look upon global warming as just another scientific controversy and oppose any public policies until the major issues are settled, such as the cause.