Sentences with phrase «public health mission»

Nonetheless, the motivation behind the proposed legislation threatens to weaken the FDA's ability to pursue its public health mission.»

However, the public health mission of the Animal Control Department is its reason for being, and should be carried out.

She also spent time at the Navajo Nation Veterinary Clinic in Arizona and worked on a public health mission in the Honduras.

He hopes the lessons learned in Massachusetts will be of value as the ACA becomes implemented nationwide — particularly in ensuring that the essential public health mission continues to survive and thrive in a changing health care environment.

«While these cuts have necessitated reducing the size of the Office of Water Resources, Suffolk County has adequate resources to protect water quality and remains committed to its core public health mission.»

«Moving forward from this training, the active duty and reserve civil affairs components can coordinate and dialogue on civil affairs mission and tactical training when preparing for veterinary public health missions.»

Not exact matches

But when that agenda means reneging on the EPA's core mission of protecting public health to serve corporate interests, it falls way outside any electoral mandate.

Mackey told the magazine then that his business is mission - based, with core values including commitments to the fulfillment of equitable treatment of stakeholders, as well as the health of the public, while also having a commitment to making money.

«The use of the medicines in lethal injections runs counter to the manufacturers» mission to save and enhance patients» lives, and carries with it not only a public - health risk, but also reputational, fiscal and legal risks,» wrote the companies in a friend of the court filing.

When churches believe that their mission requires them to provide education, health care, social work, disaster relief, refugee resettlement, shelter for the homeless, food for the hungry, assistance to the aged, or whatever, they are often providing needed public services for which the public is willing, able and responsible to pay.

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.

A non-profit study center, the Institute offers a variety of educational and outreach programs with the mission of inspiring men and women to lives of public service and preserving the health and future of our democracy.

He is currently a board member of EWG, whose mission is to protect our nation's public health and the environment.

California's Project LEAN (Leaders Encouraging Activity and Nutrition) is a partnership between the Department of Health Services and the Public Health Institute whose mission is to increase healthy eating and physical activity in youth.

Hospitals aim «to promote the health of infants and mothers, but the ongoing promotion of infant formula conflicts with this mission,» Public Citizen President Robert Weissman wrote in the letter to hospital chief executives.

The Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology & Health APPPAH's mission is to educate professionals and the public about, and advocate for, the life - changing discoveries made in the area of prenatal and perinatal psychology and hHealth APPPAH's mission is to educate professionals and the public about, and advocate for, the life - changing discoveries made in the area of prenatal and perinatal psychology and healthhealth.

We advance our mission through public policy analysis, advocacy, and collaboration with partners to promote a patient - and community - centered health system.

HUMAN Everywhere's mission is to leverage the power of social entrepreneurship to improve the nation's collective health by increasing access to nutrition education and healthful foods while advocating for public policy that contributes to these goals.

My mission: investigate the unique needs of babies in a public health emergency.

UNICEF has facilitated partnerships with all stakeholders including the State Government, State Nutrition Mission, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Public Health Department, BPNI (Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India), NGOs, Community Based Organisations (CBOs) and several academic institutions, for this major initiative.

As part of its mission, the Oneida County Public Health Emergency Response and Preparedness Program (PHERP) assist the community before, during and after an emergency event to prevent or minimize its adverse effects on the health and safety of the residents in the commHealth Emergency Response and Preparedness Program (PHERP) assist the community before, during and after an emergency event to prevent or minimize its adverse effects on the health and safety of the residents in the commhealth and safety of the residents in the community.

«My mission in public life which has always cantered on transforming the material conditions of our people has always revolved around these three imperatives — breaking the yoke of ignorance that keeps our people down; liberating them from ill - health and other limitations that restrain them from achieving their potentials; and breaking the stranglehold of poverty which keeps people from living full creative lives.

One of Hein's missions in life these days seems to be to demonize the Catskill Mountain Railroad and its volunteers as not only deadbeat county tenants (CMRR leases them county - owned tracks) but with their lead - paint encrusted rolling stock a clear and present danger to public health.

It's a cutting - edge initiative that will utilize proven, creative and innovative methods of street - level, residential, commercial and public mental health crisis response, while entering into mission - oriented, problem - solving partnerships with first responders, mental health and social service provider agencies.

Further, in service to its mission to protect public health from the effects of pollution and to support the continued development of strong science as a basis for effective decision making, the US EPA is co-sponsoring the meeting.

Radha Muthiah will provide the perspective of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a nongovernmental organization that addresses both public health and environmental impact in its mission.

In fact, the panel is charged with providing «recommendations as to actions that can be taken to improve the safety and environmental performance of shale gas extraction processes and other steps to ensure protection of public health and safety,» according to Chu's memo (pdf) laying out its mission, which must deliver «immediate steps to be taken to improve the safety and environmental performance of fracking» within 90 days of its first meeting.

In the military, health professionals are much more aware of their social mission as purveyors of public health than they are normally as civilians treating individual patients, Williams - Jones added.

«I have a lot of confidence that [Price] understands and supports the research mission and I hope that he will continue to do so,» says Michael M.E. Johns, an ear, nose, and throat surgeon who was the dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and the chancellor of Emory University in Atlanta, and who is now a professor in Emory's schools of medicine and public health.

For many in the public health community, the notion that the head of the CDC held shares of a company in an industry that has been so anathema to the agency's mission was shocking.

«There are grave public health risks from water abstracted from the river,» says Mervyn Richardson, a member of the mission.

Agarwal says «fulfilling the mission» broadly would mean information from Zika diagnoses, for example, is flowing to the right public health official whether it's from patient - hospital encounters stored in a state health information exchange or a primary care setting when a patient presents for treatment or even when such cases are documented at a public health care service location.

In the pursuit of its mission to prevent and fight against diseases in France and throughout the world, the Institut Pasteur operates in four main areas: scientific and medical research, public health and health monitoring, teaching, and business development and technology transfer.

Its mission is to increase access to and improve the quality of addiction treatment, to educate physicians, and other health care providers and the public, to support research and prevention, to promote the appropriate role of the physician in the care of patients with addictive disorders, and to establish addiction medicine as a specialty recognized by professional organizations, governments, physicians, purchasers and consumers of health care services and the general public.

Its mission is «To improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide», working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

Supports high quality conferences that are relevant to the public health and to the scientific mission of the participating Institutes and Centers, which include NINDS, NICHD and NIGMS, among others.

Its main missions are to produce new knowledge and to contribute to coordination of research in the field of animal health and veterinary public health, a typical «one health» strategy.

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, has a mission to enhance the health of the research enterprise, foster integrity in science and engineering, and promote the public understanding of science.

«This success in obtaining public research funding reflects our shared passion for UCSF's mission as a public institution to uncover the fundamental mechanisms underlying human biology and disease while working to transform health worldwide.»

Over the past 30 years, the scope of the CNWRA support has grown to provide technical and programmatic assistance to the NRC staff and their agency's mission to protect public health and safety, and the environment.

«Reform should be a shared priority for all who support IARC's mission and rely on IARC for useful information about how to enhance public health.»

SwRI President and CEO Adam Hamilton said, «SwRI is proud that our CNWRA operations support the NRC in its mission to protect public health and safety.

NIH Clinical Center (CC)-- Est. in 1953 The NIH Clinical Center, America's research hospital, provides a versatile clinical research environment enabling the NIH mission to improve human health by investigating the pathogenesis of disease; conducting first - in - human clinical trials with an emphasis on rare diseases and diseases of high public health impact; developing state - of - the - art diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic interventions; training the current and next generations of clinical researchers; and, ensuring that clinical research is ethical, efficient, and of high scientific quality.

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-- Est. 1974 The mission of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health.

Another newer one is the Center for Public Health Initiatives, whose mission is to educate and train public health leaders and practitioners, foster multi-disciplinary collaboration, and promote excellence in public health research and community partnerPublic Health Initiatives, whose mission is to educate and train public health leaders and practitioners, foster multi-disciplinary collaboration, and promote excellence in public health research and community partnerHealth Initiatives, whose mission is to educate and train public health leaders and practitioners, foster multi-disciplinary collaboration, and promote excellence in public health research and community partnerpublic health leaders and practitioners, foster multi-disciplinary collaboration, and promote excellence in public health research and community partnerhealth leaders and practitioners, foster multi-disciplinary collaboration, and promote excellence in public health research and community partnerpublic health research and community partnerhealth research and community partnerships.

Its mission is to advance the health of the people of the Commonwealth through pioneering education, research, public service and health care delivery with its clinical partner, UMass Memorial Healthhealth of the people of the Commonwealth through pioneering education, research, public service and health care delivery with its clinical partner, UMass Memorial Healthhealth care delivery with its clinical partner, UMass Memorial HealthHealth Care.

While at Harvard, Rogers helped to launch the Center for Surgery and Public Health, whose mission is to understand the nature, quality and utilization of surgical care nationally and internationally.

Dr. Dines is on a mission of education, within which she and her group Cultured Reframed plan to use a public health approach similar to how my generation was educated about drinking alcohol and driving.

Silicon Valley Health Institute is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation whose primary mission is to provide credible health education to the public with an emphasis on optimal wellness, anti-aging medicine, and longHealth Institute is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation whose primary mission is to provide credible health education to the public with an emphasis on optimal wellness, anti-aging medicine, and longhealth education to the public with an emphasis on optimal wellness, anti-aging medicine, and longevity.

The REAL picks for 2014 consist of an eclectic list of 10 books that represent the wide reach of our mission here at Responsible Eating And Living, educating the public about the health and environmental benefits of transitioning to a plant - based lifestyle.