Sentences with phrase «policymakers and public health»

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Abigail Bozarth, a spokeswoman for AstraZeneca, said «AstraZeneca believes it is important to engage with policymakers, key partners, and the public — across all states in the United States — about the very challenging issues we face as we all work to strengthen our nation's health care system.»

«While San Francisco policymakers pursue common sense regulation of standup electronic scooters to enhance the public benefit of this new shared mobility technology and to reduce potential harm to the public, state legislators seek to eliminate elements of the Vehicle Code that exist to protect the health and safety of members of the public including users of standup electric scooters,» Peskin wrote in his resolution.

In their current state of development, home visitation programs do not appear to represent the low - cost solution to child health and developmental problems that policymakers and the public have hoped for.5 However, information that is accumulating about long - term outcomes and effective practices may lead to the development of replicable programs that are capable of producing modest but consistent and positive results for participating target families.

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AAPD members interested in public policy issues in their state as well as policymakers and advocates for children's oral health at the state level should feel free to contact the PPA in your state.

«We have an obligation as policymakers and influencers to protect our youth from the lifelong health problems associated with picking up that first cigarette,» wrote Michael Seilback, vice president for public policy and communications for the American Lung Association in the Northeast.

«A knowledge broker... sits in between knowledge producers, [such as] scientists... and those who use knowledge, such as policymakers, the general public, or people working in the health domain.

I chose it because it's a big - picture project, a collaboration between public health officials, scientists, and doctors with the shared goal of providing data - driven advice to policymakers.

Building cities in a way that slows vehicle demand while delivering high accessibility could prove to be a low - cost option for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a solution to pressing problems for policymakers like local air pollution and poor public health.

«This model may be useful to advocates and policymakers as they pursue efforts to prevent the worst effects of climate change,» adds senior author Patrick Kinney, director of the Climate and Health Program and professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

«Health care and public health professionals now have a limited window of opportunity to engage policymakers about protecting Dreamers through legislative action, with an emphasis on the potentially dire mental health consequences of failing to enact a definitive legal remedy,» VenkataramaniHealth care and public health professionals now have a limited window of opportunity to engage policymakers about protecting Dreamers through legislative action, with an emphasis on the potentially dire mental health consequences of failing to enact a definitive legal remedy,» Venkataramanihealth professionals now have a limited window of opportunity to engage policymakers about protecting Dreamers through legislative action, with an emphasis on the potentially dire mental health consequences of failing to enact a definitive legal remedy,» Venkataramanihealth consequences of failing to enact a definitive legal remedy,» Venkataramani said.

In addition to his public service at NIH, he did his postdoctoral training within the NIH - NIEHS Superfund Research Program Center at the University of Kentucky, where he directed the Center's graduate and postdoctoral transdisciplinary training efforts and translated the Center's ongoing environmental health - related research innovations to relevant stakeholders, including state and federal policymakers and regulators, industry partners for technology transfer, and at - risk populations across Kentucky.

«The general public thinks marijuana is harmless, but information revealing the potential health dangers of marijuana use needs to be disseminated to the public, policymakers and healthcare providers,» Jouanjus said.

«Wetlands are vulnerable to over-exploitation due to their abundance of fish, fuel and water,» reports the group, which works on the ground in 18 countries to educate the public and policymakers about the health of local wetlands and to advocate for better policies.

«Everyone — including scientists, the public, policymakers, our health care system, and research funders — has a stake in the outcome.

«Such prevalence data does not itself define need for care or targets for prevention, but reliable information on prevalence will help to drive public health and healthcare policymakers» prioritisation of this important cause of distress and disability in the general population,» they conclude.

In recommending that smokers who can not or will not quit cigarettes try e-cigarettes, PHE takes a position on the opposite side of the aisle from the U.S., where many prominent tobacco control advocates, public health officials, and policymakers are critical of e-cigarettes.

Former NSABB member Arturo Casadevall, an immunologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, describes Kawaoka's new work as «tremendously important» and says it should give the policymakers pause.

May it serve as a warning not only to policymakers, but also to researchers, clinicians, peer reviewers, journal editors, and journalists of the need to consider the harm to scientific credibility and public health when dealing with studies funded by food companies with vested interests in the results — and to find better ways to fund such studies and to prevent, disclose and manage potentially conflicted interests,» writes Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H., of New York University, in a related commentary.

«This was intended to be an exploratory study,» Allareddy said, «one that we hope will help alert the public, researchers, and policymakers of the need to fully define and address this important, emerging public health problem among children in the United States.»

The Society serves scientists, health professionals, and the public by providing forums to: (1) share research results through the ASHG Annual Meeting and in The American Journal of Human Genetics; (2) advance genetic research by advocating for research support; (3) educate current and future genetics professionals, health care providers, advocates, policymakers, educators, students, and the public about all aspects of human genetics; and (4) promote genetic services and support responsible social and scientific policies.

Building on the successful Recent Advances in Understanding Mental Illness and Psychotic Experiences (2000), this report is intended for service users, their friends and families, journalists, policymakers, mental health workers and the public.

The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX) is a private entity dedicated to promoting the «endocrine issue» as a public health threat with policymakers, regulators, advocates and the public.

The findings «highlight the urgency of educating the public, policymakers and health care professionals about high - risk drinking and alcohol use disorder, destigmatizing these conditions, and encouraging those who can not reduce their alcohol consumption on their own — despite substantial harm to themselves and others — to seek treatment,» Grant and her colleagues concluded.

Improving public information about use of dietary supplements involves investments in professional training programs, further studies of population and nutrient needs, expanding the database information, enhancing collaborations between governments and universities, and translating dietary supplement research into useful information for consumers, health professionals, scientists, and policymakers.

Increasing the quality and volume of economic evaluations of evidence - based SEL programs is a necessary step in convincing policymakers and the public to support more broadly children's social and emotional development toward improving our public health.

Such binary thinking sees policymakers swayed by specious claims that licensing is necessary to protect public health and safety or to promote...

Ryan Holeywell is the communications manager for the Texas Medical Center Health Policy Institute, where he works to ensure its analyses and research reach member institutions, journalists, policymakers and the public.

- David Cole, national legal director of the ACLU and author of Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed «Extensively researched and exquisitely written, Insane is a must read for policymakers, mental health professionals, mental health consumers and their families, and the general public.»

«Policymakers rarely see with perfect foresight what the appropriate emissions targets are to protect the public health and environment — the history is that these targets usually need to get stricter,» said Taylor.

According to the report's sponsors, this kind of comparative analysis is useful for policymakers considering regulatory approaches; public interest organizations concerned about public health and consumer costs; and financial analysts and investors assessing company risk exposure as global warming emission limits in the U.S. gain more momentum.

Intended as a climate change preparedness resource for planners, policymakers, and the public, the 600 - page «ClimAID» report, written by scientists from Cornell University, Columbia University, and the City University of New York, says New Yorkers should begin preparing for hotter summers, snowier winters, severe floods, and a range of other effects on the environment, communities, and human health.

Below are three easy and cost - effective ways policymakers and public institutions can reduce their HFC emissions and lead by example to strengthen policy linkages between climate and health:

We support educating the public and policymakers in government and industry about the harmful human health effects of global climate change, and about the immediate and long - term health benefits associated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions (i.e., heat - trapping pollution) and taking other preventive and protective measures that contribute to sustainability.

In 2014, the AIA announced a partnership with the American Institute of Architects Foundation and Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture to form the first - ever Design and Health Research Consortium, a group of leading academic public health institutions and universities that helps translate research on design's influence on public health into architectural practice for policymakers, design and public health professionals and the general pHealth Research Consortium, a group of leading academic public health institutions and universities that helps translate research on design's influence on public health into architectural practice for policymakers, design and public health professionals and the general phealth institutions and universities that helps translate research on design's influence on public health into architectural practice for policymakers, design and public health professionals and the general phealth into architectural practice for policymakers, design and public health professionals and the general phealth professionals and the general public.

The report is intended to shine light on the strengths and challenges faced by the nation and offer state - level data for community leaders, public health officials and policymakers to use as a roadmap to improve the health of women and children within their states.

As a result of increased awareness, policymakers and providers came together for a state infant mental health summit in October 2002 to share information about policy, funding, and public awareness.

How do you expand understandings of mental health and prevention approaches among policymakers and members of the public in Germany?

NIAAA provides leadership in the national effort to reduce alcohol - related problems by: Conducting and supporting research in a wide range of scientific areas including genetics, neuroscience, epidemiology, health risks and benefits of alcohol consumption, prevention, and treatment; Coordinating and collaborating with other research institutes and Federal Programs on alcohol - related issues; Collaborating with international, national, state, and local institutions, organizations, agencies, and programs engaged in alcohol - related work; and, Translating and disseminating research findings to health care providers, researchers, policymakers, and the public.