Sentences with phrase «public health experts into»

Congress, start by assembling public health experts into a Manhattan Project - style effort to pinpoint the best ways to curtail this epidemic.

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Maternal mortality review committees can play a key role in this process, public health experts say, by identifying pregnancy - related deaths that might otherwise be overlooked, analyzing the factors contributing to those deaths, and translating the lessons into policy changes.

The inquiry into sex in prison was initiated by the Howard League for Penal Reform and had a distinguished board of experts on its panel, including leading criminologists, public health advisors and barristers.

Reports that Grayling blocked the investigation into sex in prison outraged penal reform campaigners and public health experts, some of whom believe there could be an unaddressed epidemic of sexual assaults behind bars.

Public - health experts have long expected that kids who eat more carrots and apples are less likely to eat a lot of candy and fries, but new research is calling that into question.

But as the world's urban population surges, and more people crowd into rat - plagued slums, the rodents are getting renewed attention from researchers and public health experts.

Global vaccine experts and officials from all 26 African «meningitis belt» countries have convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to celebrate one of Africa's biggest public health achievements — the introduction of a vaccine, MenAfriVac ®, designed, developed, and produced for use in Africa, that in five years of use has nearly eliminated serogroup A meningococcal disease from meningitis belt countries and is now being integrated into routine national immunization programs.

The world's leading public health experts agree that we should never heat plastic since it accelerates the leaching of these harmful chemicals into food.

«We're increasingly recognizing the importance of physical activity for children even as the academic demands placed on them are cutting into the traditional programs of recess and physical education,» said Gerd Bobe, an assistant professor in the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences, an expert in public health nutrition and behavior, and principal investigator with the Linus Pauling Institute.

Since the bill attempts to tear down a ruling based on the findings of our nation's top public health experts and scientists — a ruling that a Supreme Court decision turned into a legal obligation to uphold — we're witnessing a case wherein Congressional politicians are actually arguing that they know better than the conclusions of an entire body of science.