Sentences with phrase «on public health science»

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They don't have as many followers as you though, I doubt anybody would kill over them, try to impede science education, put public health at risk, or infringe on peoples happiness in their name.

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

The Organic Center's mission is to convene credible, evidence - based science on the health and environmental benefits of organic food and farming and to communicate the findings to the public.

The action guide includes best practices for promoting healthy eating and physical activity for children from infancy through school age, based on current science, public health research, and national recommendations and standards.

Public health campaigns would be best administered if they did their homework on the true science of mother - baby - sleep.

The partner agencies on this project — Washington State Department of Agriculture, Washington State Department of Health, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Washington State University School of Food Science — came together to develop «SAFE Salad Bars in Schools - A Guide for School Food Service» in order to consolidate messages and present clear guidance to school district staff and decision makers, using state - level knowledge and expertise and consulting national sources.

I am available for public speaking in many forums: universities, childbirth and midwifery conferences, conferences on alternative health care, on gender issues, on myth and ritual, and on science and technology.

As part of our public health awareness commitment, the Fed is Best Foundation has developed and compiled extensive resources for parents and health professionals to promote safe breastfeeding and safe infant feeding policies based on evidence, including, the science of infant feeding, the caloric and fluid requirements of newborns and the caloric yield of exclusive breastfeeding.

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They rely heavily on the manipulation of public opinion, appearing respectable; using front groups, funding science and infiltrating food safety systems — all with the purpose of weakening legislation — legislation that is essential for stopping marketing practices that violate children's rights to health and improves product quality and safety.

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At 7 p.m., Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer attends a New York City Department of Education public hearing on Health Careers and Science High School, George Washington Educational Campus, 549 Audubon Ave., Manhattan.

On health, President Mahama said the establishment of the Public Health School of the University of Health and Allied Science at Hohoe was on course and would soon start admitting studentOn health, President Mahama said the establishment of the Public Health School of the University of Health and Allied Science at Hohoe was on course and would soon start admitting stuhealth, President Mahama said the establishment of the Public Health School of the University of Health and Allied Science at Hohoe was on course and would soon start admitting stuHealth School of the University of Health and Allied Science at Hohoe was on course and would soon start admitting stuHealth and Allied Science at Hohoe was on course and would soon start admitting studenton course and would soon start admitting students.

A public health study with public participation and with transparency represents a higher level of scientific rigor and so should be supported by the Governor in his quest to make the decision on the basis of the best science available.

Globally, the tide has turned, and ever more prominent statesmen and women are calling for an end to the failed war on drugs and its replacement with models of legal regulation based on science, public health and human rights principles.

Because of your relentless effort and fierce commitment to keep fracking from polluting our water, air and harming our health, last Wednesday on December 17, 2014, at a public, livestreamed meeting of Governor Cuomo's cabinet in Albany, Governor Cuomo acknowledged the overwhelming science that speaks to the inherent dangers of fracking to public health and the environment presented by Joseph Martens, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, and Dr. Howard Zucker, Commissioner of the Department of Health, Governor Cuomo banned high volume horizontal fracturing in New York health, last Wednesday on December 17, 2014, at a public, livestreamed meeting of Governor Cuomo's cabinet in Albany, Governor Cuomo acknowledged the overwhelming science that speaks to the inherent dangers of fracking to public health and the environment presented by Joseph Martens, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, and Dr. Howard Zucker, Commissioner of the Department of Health, Governor Cuomo banned high volume horizontal fracturing in New York health and the environment presented by Joseph Martens, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, and Dr. Howard Zucker, Commissioner of the Department of Health, Governor Cuomo banned high volume horizontal fracturing in New York Health, Governor Cuomo banned high volume horizontal fracturing in New York State.

A year before Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled his $ 650 million push to grow the life sciences and biotech sectors in the Empire State, SUNY Polytechnic Institute planned a $ 500 million public health complex on its Albany campus that would have housed key labs for the state Department of Health along with IBM and Albany Medical Chealth complex on its Albany campus that would have housed key labs for the state Department of Health along with IBM and Albany Medical CHealth along with IBM and Albany Medical Center.

We're calling on the administration to hold off on issuing revised regulations until all of the science on the potential health and environmental impacts are in, and the public's questions have been answered.»

«This was a timely symposium for Cuban and U.S. scientists to exchange and share experiences on public health challenges facing both countries, the world and the region of the Americas in particular,» said Marga Gual Soler, senior project director at the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy.

Known as Betty, her contributions to public health policy came during her tenure from 1992 to 1998 as president of the William T. Grant Foundation, a social science research nonprofit focused on inequality and improving the lives of young people, and through her earlier work in 1977 as the director of studies of the President's Commission on Mental Health during the administration of President Jimmy Chealth policy came during her tenure from 1992 to 1998 as president of the William T. Grant Foundation, a social science research nonprofit focused on inequality and improving the lives of young people, and through her earlier work in 1977 as the director of studies of the President's Commission on Mental Health during the administration of President Jimmy CHealth during the administration of President Jimmy Carter.

Chu cited his role in key reports by National Academies and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on the competitiveness of the U.S. scientific enterprise and the state of fundamental research, studies that «sounded alarms that the health of science, science education and integration of science into public decision - making in the U.S. was in peril and heading in the wrong direction,» he said in his candidacy statement.

Research on the causes of obesity, though valuable, will not solve this public health crisis; what may, is behavioral science, which tells us how to change our habits and our «food environment.»

«It's an ideological agenda that's really based on a religious agenda superseding public health and science.»

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.

Science is expected to contribute substantially and frequently toward our safety, health, and prosperity — lofty expectations that inform the public conversation on whether scientific research is worth taxpayer dollars and how frequently results should come forth.

As Congress develops public policy, I will continue to engage and seek counsel from our world class scientists and technicians working at the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute on Standards and Technology, and other federal agencies.

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.

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.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security».

Although the CDC largely withdrew from funding research on gun violence more than 20 years ago (under intense congressional pressure), there are active research programs in medicine, public health, law, and the social sciences under way in universities and think tanks.

Nina V. Fedoroff, science adviser to the Secretary of State and the Agency for International Development, said that proposals for centers of excellence «have been bubbling up from several different directions» with emphasis on issues such as agriculture and public health.

«Ninety - four percent of chronic conditions, like pneumoconiosis, weren't captured by the Part 50 program,» said Kirsten Almberg, research assistant professor of environmental and occupational health sciences in the UIC School of Public Health and a co-author on the health sciences in the UIC School of Public Health and a co-author on the Health and a co-author on the paper.

«We decided to investigate cardiovascular risks of this therapy in a large health care database since these previous studies were modest in size and only focused on men 65 and older,» said the study's senior author, Sander Greenland, a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a professor of statistics in the UCLA College of Letters and Schealth care database since these previous studies were modest in size and only focused on men 65 and older,» said the study's senior author, Sander Greenland, a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a professor of statistics in the UCLA College of Letters and ScHealth and a professor of statistics in the UCLA College of Letters and Science.

In October, as we did four years previously, we will assemble answers from the campaigns of the Democratic and Republican nominees on the public policy questions that touch on science, technology and public health and then publish them online.

One ultimate goal is to assure the general public that whatever dietary advice it receives — for weight loss, overall health and prevention of obesity — is based on rigorous science, not preconceptions or blind consensus.

Other organizations collaborating on this research included the VA Portland Health Care System; the Division of Infectious Diseases at Oregon Health & Science University; the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory; the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center; and Case Western Reserve University.

Science graduate study, based on a 19th century model, needs serious reform to meet modern needs, but trying to «revitalize the doctorate is like moving a graveyard,» added another conference speaker, former NSF Director and former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (publisher of Science Careers) Rita Colwell, currently a Distinguished Professor at both the University of Maryland, College Park, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Its report, Gene Drives on the Horizon: Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty and Aligning Research with Public Values, stresses that although gene drive offers great promise for agriculture, conservation, and public health, neither the science nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered orgScience, Navigating Uncertainty and Aligning Research with Public Values, stresses that although gene drive offers great promise for agriculture, conservation, and public health, neither the science nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered orgaPublic Values, stresses that although gene drive offers great promise for agriculture, conservation, and public health, neither the science nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered orgapublic health, neither the science nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered orgscience nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered organisms.

Ira Flatow is the host of National Public Radio's Science Friday, an in - depth talk show that reaches radio and Internet listeners with discussions on science, technology, health, space, and the envirScience Friday, an in - depth talk show that reaches radio and Internet listeners with discussions on science, technology, health, space, and the envirscience, technology, health, space, and the environment.

Co-investigators on the study are Vancheswaran Gopalakrishnan, doctoral student at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health; Christine Spencer, Tatiana Karpinets, Ph.D., Robert Jenq, M.D., and Andrew Futreal, Ph.D., of Genomic Medicine; Miles Cameron Andrews, Ph.D., Alexandre Reuben, Ph.D., Jeffrey Lee, M.D., and Jeffrey Gershenwald, M.D., of Surgical Oncology; Michael Tetzlaff, Ph.D., M.D., and Alexander Lazar, M.D., Ph.D., of Pathology; Wen - Jen Hwu, M.D., Ph.D., Claudia Glitza, M.D., Ph.D., Hussein Tawbi, M.D., Ph.D., Sapna Patel, M.D., Michael Davies, M.D., Ph.D., and Patrick Hwu, M.D., of Melanoma Medical Oncology; Padmanee Sharma, M.D., Ph.D., of Genitourinary Medical Oncology and Immunology; and Jim Allison, Ph.D., of Immunology.

This special issue of Science focuses on diverse areas where public health can be improved by making better use of the resources we have in our grasp, ranging from tailoring engineering projects to meet the needs of material - and infrastructure - limited regions, to building a surveillance network for the detection of drug resistance, to empowering women.

The fight over mandating free access to papers based on research funded by taxpayer dollars is again heating up in Washington, D.C. Yesterday, lawmakers discussed expanding the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) «public access» policy to other science - funding agencies.

The secret science bill, for example, would apparently bar EPA from using public health studies based on confidential patient information, wrote the American Statistical Association's president, David Morganstein, in a 25 February letter to lawmakers.

Science magazine reports this week (subscription required) that Jong Hyuk Park, who was a postdoc in the lab of University of Pittsburgh researcher Gerald Schatten, has been barred for 3 years from any relationships with U.S. agencies.The Office of Research Integrity of the U.S. Public Health Service imposed the sanctions on Park for faking figures in a paper on monkey cloning.

Christina Warinner, professor in the Department of Anthropology, OU College of Arts and Sciences, will present, «The Evolution and Ecology of Our Microbial Self,» during the American Association for the Advancement of Science panel on Evolutionary Biology Impacts on Medicine and Public Health, at 1:30 pm, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016 in the Marriott Marshall Ballroom West, Washington, DC.

Rita Colwell, a former director of the National Science Foundation who is now a Distinguished University Professor at both the University of Maryland and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, took the long view on data sharing.

In the paper «Banning Smoking In Parks and on Beaches: Science, Policy, and the Politics of Denormalization,» published in the July issue of the journal Health Affairs, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the evidence for these claims and found them to be far from definitive and, in some cases, weak.