Sentences with phrase «policy professor who»

Nevin Cohen, a City University of New York health policy professor who studies SNAP, said Faso and other Republicans are perpetuating myths about SNAP.

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Harvard public policy professor and behavioral economist Iris Bohnet says one solution to solving this issue is «micro-sponsorship,» which is the act of advocating for a colleague who has been wronged.

The provocative documentary, Inside Job, brought embarrassing attention to professors who profit from unreported consulting and directorship deals with companies and organizations and then weigh in as «objective» observers on key policy issues in economics and financial regulation.

«In November 2016, Grassley said he would retain the policy used in the eight Obama years when the Senate Judiciary Committee would not set a hearing unless both home state senators returned blue slips,» Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond professor who is an expert on judicial nominations, told Business Insider in an email.

There's no question about it,» recalls Chris Ragan, an associate professor of economic policy at McGill University who agrees with the current austerity push.

Robert R.M. Verchick, a Loyola University law professor who worked on climate change adaptation policy at the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama, said federal leadership is essential.

It is a uniquely assertive nationalist approach to the way America engages the world,» says Professor Adams, who teaches foreign policy at American University.

James Blumstein, a professor of law and the director of the Vanderbilt Health Policy Center, explains that if Brown had standing when she filed suit — originally — that's what matters most, since the NFIB, which is an institutional litigant, has members who are in similar circumstances as Brown.

«There's been a strong trend for health organizations to want to broaden their footprint, especially on the part of insurers to get more direct contact with the individual,» said Dr. John W. Rowe, a former hospital and insurance executive who is a professor of health policy at Columbia University.

«I think it's fair to say that [Europe] is leading global policy on privacy and data protection, and they're doing it at a time when they see the US system has been severely deficient,» Kovacic, who is now a professor at George Washington University, said.

«We are in a labor market where more and more emphasis is placed on cognitive skills and education - based skills, the changing economy,» explains Harry Holzer, a labor economist who is a professor of public policy at Georgetown University.

«There's clearly a growing awareness of these problems in the technical community,» says Solon Barocas, an assistant professor at Cornell who studies ethical and policy issues related to artificial intelligence.

«It wasn't a very good product,» said Susan F. Wood, an associate professor of health policy at George Washington University, who opposed the drug's approval.

Australia needs to put aside objections to foreign investment because the alternative is falling farm productivity and rising subsidies, said Peter Langridge, emeritus professor at the University of Adelaide who has advised the United Nations on agricultural policy.

It featured speakers representing different stakeholder groups, including Registered Dietician Dr Clare Pettinger, Melanie Leach, the Director General of the Food and Drink Federation, Professor Jack Winkler who is visiting lecturer at UCL and Lee Sheppard the Director of Policy at apetito UK.

Rachel Weber is an associate professor at the University of Illinois - Chicago Department of Urban Planning and Policy who holds a doctorate in regional planning.

I agree with Professor Zhou that the U.S. needs better family policies, but as I wrote in my letter to the editor: «her focus on promoting policies for mothers who pursue full - time careers leaves out mothers as well as fathers who make other choices.

Charlotte Wright, professor of community child health at the University of Glasgow and one of the members campaigning for the change in the policy, told The BMJ that she had no objection to the college surveying its members given that the numbers who voted at the annual general meeting were so small — 66 delegates supported the motion and 53 were against it.

Jonathan Portes, professor of Economics and Public Policy at King's College London, author of Capitalism: 50 things you need to know, tweets at @jdportes 2016 has been in equal measure fascinating and horrifying for economists like me who believe that our discipline has much to contribute to public debate.

That is why an impact assessment approach is endorsed by a range of NGOs and academics from various sectors affected by drug policy, and politicians from all parties, including the Conservative peer and professor of government Lord Norton, who was the prime mover in making impact assessments obligatory for all new Acts.

He was forced to twist his policies on the minimum wage and his posture toward Senate Democrats to win the Working Families Party line from Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law professor who has criticized Cuomo as too beholden to wealthy donors.

A former University of Rochester professor who now holds a chair in security policy at Ohio State University thinks Americans are more worried about the potential threat of an unstable North Korea than they should be.

Professor Sarah Birch's research for the Institute for Public Policy Research shows the toxic effect of these two factors together: only a third of under - 35s earning # 10,000 or less voted, so their voice was swamped by the 80 % of over-55s earning # 40,000 or more who did.

I am of the view that the NDPC must as a matter of urgency engage the Minister designate for Planning, Professor George Gyan Baffour, who is also the Member of Parliament for Wenchi Constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region to at least make him aware of some of the policies and programmes before some of the promises are executed.

«This is states engaging in self - help,» said David Kamin, a professor at New York University School of Law who studies budget and tax policy.

Reichert - Powell and these other parents found a sympathetic ear — and voice — in Naomi Quinn, a now - retired professor in cultural anthropology who, with other women faculty, was an advocate for an inclusive parental leave policy back in 1986.

«While the number of cycles is relatively small, it is definitely growing,» said Georgia Tech's Aaron Levine, the associate professor in the School of Public Policy who led the study.

«The policies in Africa right now were designed for one purpose and one purpose only — to prevent transmission, but the mother was not part of the equation,» says Dr. Aditya Kaul, who is a professor in the Department of Pediatric Infectious Disease at the New York University Langone Medical Center.

Attanasio, an assistant professor of health policy and management at UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences, explains that a growing body of research at the individual level has shown that compared to women cared for by physicians, women considered at low - risk for complications in childbirth who receive care from midwives have good outcomes that include lower use of interventions such as cesarean delivery.

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.»

Once you have your research dream team, set ground rules, says Barry Bozeman, an Arizona State University professor of public policy who is studying the dos and don'ts of collaborations for the NSF.

A Liberal government also would be much more likely to fund climate science programs, said James Turk, a visiting professor at Ryerson University who has criticized Harper's approach to science policy.

«They had all this authority before,» said Len Nichols, a health policy professor at George Mason University in Virginia who supports the health law.

«The Chinese government and Chinese firms are using a number of different strategies to attract and develop talent in clean energy,» said Kelly Sims Gallagher, an associate professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School who follows China's energy and climate policy.

Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco who frequently clashed with Dynes on financial policies as chair of UC's budget committee, says he's pleased to see him go.

«It would cut off our eyes, ears and nose, with respect to what is going on in our surroundings,» says John Holdren, who served as former Pres. Barack Obama's science adviser and is now a professor of environmental science and policy at Harvard University.

This study takes a step toward addressing that question, Aldo Geuna, a professor of economic policy at the University of Torino in Italy who was not involved in the work, writes in an email to Science Careers.

«Understanding HCV disease progression rates among people who inject drugs (PWID) is important to setting policy to expand access to detection, diagnosis and treatment, and in forecasting the burden of disease,» said Holly Hagan, PhD, the principal investigator for the HCV Synthesis Project, who also is a professor at New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) and co-director at CDUHR.

«Speed reductions, which are known to reduce emissions, would need to be maintained over a very long - term period in order to produce regional air quality benefits,» said James Corbett, a professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, who has studied the impact of the shipping industry on human health.

«For several years, the emphasis in the tobacco industry has been on this sort of direct marketing, especially to young people who are highly price sensitive and who may find coupons, samples, and promotions appealing,» said lead author Samir Soneji, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

«I think he's terrific,» says Robert Paarlberg, a professor of political science at Wellesley College in Massachusetts who studies international agricultural policy.

Louise Ivers, MD, senior health and policy adviser for Partners In Health and associate professor of global health and social medicine Harvard Medical School, who has worked in Haiti for over a decade, said there are several reasons the vaccine campaigns succeeded.

The theme of this year's conference, «Serving Society through Science Policy,» was set forth by AAAS President Barbara A. Schaal, who serves as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Mary - Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis.

«Shedding light on trends in the burden of stroke among Medicare beneficiaries may provide important information for policy purposes, including describing the past and current scope of the condition, assessing the potential effect of stroke prevention interventions on a national level, and identifying areas where resources can be targeted more specifically and effectively,» says lead investigator Margaret C. Fang, MD, MPH, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, who also serves as the Medical Director of the UCSF Anticoagulation Clinic.

The approach was developed by Pacific Center Director Paul Glassman, a professor of dentistry at University of the Pacific, who collaborated with a broad range of stakeholders to leverage advances in dentistry and telehealth, create training programs for dentists and hygienists, and win policy and other changes needed to pilot and evaluate the system.

«This has very important implications for early education policy in the United States, where we are debating how early to start and whether preschool should be provided to all children or exclusively target low - income children,» said Dearing, a professor of applied developmental psychology who is also a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development at the University of Oslo.

«Getting parents to delay the transition to a forward - facing seat still represents an opportunity to improve passenger safety in the U.S.,» says Macy, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and a member of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.

He tells of «senior professors whose partners had cancer and no health insurance; researchers who left the commonwealth, taking major grants with them; faculty who, unlike their straight colleagues, are paying out of their pockets for costly individual policies for their partners and who resent the discrimination; young professors and administrators who are looking to leave the state; and so forth.»

«Our results strongly support other evidence about the power of public policies to reduce excessive drinking and related medical and social problems,» said Timothy Naimi, MD, MPH, a pediatrician at BMC and associate professor of public health and medicine at BUSPH, who was the study's lead investigator.

«This is worrisome given that the temperature in the study region is predicted to rise by as much as 2 degrees by midcentury under the range of plausible greenhouse gas emissions scenarios,» said Avery Cohn, aassistant professor of environment and resource policy at Tufts, who led the work while he was a visiting researcher at Brown.