Sentences with phrase «public health department thinks»

For kids, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends formulations with 10 to 30 percent DEET (although Canada's public health department thinks kids should stick to formulations with 10 percent DEET or less).

Not exact matches

«We think we can use our molecular, rational design approaches to make a better flu vaccine for people who really need it,» says study leader Andrew Pekosz, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

«One of the instigators for our laws was the thought that many parents were exempting for convenience,» said Michele Roberts, communications manager for the Washington Department of Public Health.

«As the price and accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests and other diagnostic instruments improve, I think we have a chance to really make a difference in clinical settings facing huge burdens of acute undifferentiated febrile infections that I believe are being misdiagnosed,» said Stoler, who also holds a position in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the UM Miller School of Medicine.

Dr. Walter Willett, the chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, also thought this was a reasonably done study, but he added it is difficult to make conclusions about the risk of heart disease from a study so small and short.

The program, funded primarily through the San Francisco Department of Public Health's Inhalant Prevention Program, uses hip - hop as a means to teach students critical - thinking, technology, and business skills; nurture their passion for music; and, most importantly, help them steer clear of drugs and other pitfalls of an inner city childhood.

At an event last week titled, A Public Roundtable on Transportation Emissions in Philadelphia, panelists Erik Johanson, SEPTA Director of Innovation; Christine Knapp, Mayor's Office of Sustainability Director; Tony Bandiero, Eastern Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Transportation Executive Director, and Jessica Caum, Department of Public Health, Division of Disease Control Assistant Program Manager, grappled with this question and highlighted some of the new initiatives Philadelphia is taking to think smart about transit.

Media outlets reported that the private think tank Global Access Partners had developed the proposal for the taskforce, which involved Department of Health Secretary Martin Bowles and his deputy Mark Cormack, who is responsible for public hospital funding agreements, according to Fairfax.