Sentences with phrase «public health professor»

As Croakey previously reported, Harvard Public Health Professor David R Williams talked about the impact of implicit bias and institutional racism in a workshop ahead of the conference.

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And as a public health professor noted at BeijingAirBlog, «anything above Chinese API = 50 is very unhealthy.

Even worse, this report, authored by Boston University School of Public Health professor, Dr. Jonathan Levy, states that the Meramec power plant causes upwards of 1,000 asthma attacks and 57 to 110 premature deaths each year.

Dr Fiona Godlee Editor - in - chief, British Medical Journal Dr. Richard Horton Editor - in - Chief, The Lancet Professor Ian Roberts Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Professor Hugh Montgomery Professor of Intensive Care Medicine Professor Anthony Costello Professor of International Child Health Rachel Stancliffe Director, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Dr. Robin Stott Co-chair, Climate and Health Council Maya Tickell - Painter Director, Medsin Healthy Planet Campaign

On Wednesday, October 24, Askwith Forums welcomes Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health Professor Atul Gawande, surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and staff writer at The New Yorker.

«If you are working to improve public health and the environment in Africa, you need to know what your opponents are up to,» University of Melbourne public health professor Rob Moodie writes in The Conversation.

A study led by UNLV public health professor Courtney Coughenour found that motorists approaching mid-block crosswalks are less likely to yield for black pedestrians than white pedestrians.

Although kids can typically adjust their energy intake by regulating their food, Temple University public health professor Jennifer Fisher says, their surroundings and options may change that equation for kids in the same way that it does in adults.

«Our research explores a novel approach to treating mite allergy in which specially - encapsulated miniscule particles are administered with sequences of bacterial DNA that direct the immune system to suppress allergic immune responses,» says Peter Thorne, public health professor at the UI and a contributing author on the paper.

«Regardless if cognitive impairments precede substance use or vice versa, poorer cognitive functioning negatively impacts daily life and may cause lack of insight into one's substance use as a source of problems, impeding treatment utilization or decreasing the likelihood of effective treatment,» said senior author Deborah Hasin, PhD, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health professor of Epidemiology and in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.

«The irony of Chervenak and colleagues who are leading the anti-home birth crusade is that by polarizing the issue, no one can have a reasonable discussion to try and figure how to do this best,» says Eugene Declercq, a Boston University School of Public Health professor and a CDC statistician.

Or as Jon Kingsdale, a public health professor at Boston University, told the New Times Times: «That's not enough time for most states to figure it out.»

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That was the eye - opening opening of a keynote address given yesterday by the brilliant John Quackenbush, a professor of biostatistics and computational biology at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute who has a dual professorship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and ample other academic credits after his name.

«Our findings suggest that frequent e-cigarette use may play an important role in cessation or relapse prevention for some smokers,» Daniel Giovenco, an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the lead study author, said in a statement.

«It's central,» said Dr. David Rosenbloom, a professor of public health at Boston University.

I spoke recently with Lorens Helmchen, PhD, an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University.

Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University, concurs.

«Health overwhelmed what I thought would have been financial problems» in terms of causes of stress, said Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health in a livestreamed discussion forum about stress at Harvard on JHealth overwhelmed what I thought would have been financial problems» in terms of causes of stress, said Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health in a livestreamed discussion forum about stress at Harvard on Jhealth policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health in a livestreamed discussion forum about stress at Harvard on JHealth in a livestreamed discussion forum about stress at Harvard on July 9.

The most dangerous types of supplements are those related to weight loss, muscle building, and sexual performance, according to Harvard Medical School professor S. Bryn Austin, who spoke on a recent panel organized by the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

Steven Blair, a professor of public health at the University of South Carolina, came to a similar conclusion in another research study in May 2010.

Americans, on average, consume twice as much added sugar as is recommended, according to Marion Nestle, PhD., professor in the department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University who posted a comment on the nutrition label proposals.

She has served as the Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she directed the Division of Biological Sciences.

«Research suggests that these community social connections are as important for resilience to disaster is as physical material like disaster kits or medical supplies,» explained Ichiro Kawachi, a professor of social epidemiology at Harvard's School of Public Health.

Dr. John Rowe, a professor of health policy and aging at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, doesn't rule ihealth policy and aging at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, doesn't rule iHealth, doesn't rule it out.

It's attributed to a research team called the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, and the corresponding author is Majid Ezzati, a Professor at Imperial College's School of Public Health.

«This is a vital new technology for public health,» said Professor Vivek Goel, Vice President, Research and Innovation at the University of Toronto.

Gil Alterovitz, a Harvard Medical School professor listed in Kogan's email, told The Post that he was introduced to Kogan by a friend he knew from the Harvard School of Public Health, who suggested Kogan offered a potential academic collaboration.

They have a real message,» said David Hemenway, an economist and a professor of health policy at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, in an interview on Fhealth policy at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, in an interview on FHealth, in an interview on Friday.

Dr. Morgan is a full professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia.

He is Clinical Professor of Public Health at Cornell University Medical College.

John Dickie, the director of Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, and Sir Harry Burns, the former chief medical officer for Scotland who is now Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Strathclyde, will also be at the campaign launch.

Dickson Despommier, microbiologist and ecologist, and emeritus professor of microbiology and public health at Columbia University, is known as the «father» of vertical farming.

Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, called the move by the sugar industry «appalling.»

«Since a large proportion of vitamin A — deficient children and their mothers reside in rice - consuming populations, particularly in Asia, Golden Rice should substantially reduce the prevalence and severity of vitamin A deficiency, and prevent at least hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths and cases of blindness every year,» said Dr. Alfred Sommer, professor and dean emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The inventors of Golden Rice, Professor Ingo Potrykus and Dr. Peter Beyer, donated the technology in 2000 as a gift for resource - poor farmers in developing countries because of its enormous potential to benefit public health.

Because of its enormous potential to benefit public health, the technology behind Golden Rice has been donated by its inventors, Professor Ingo Potrykus and Dr. Peter Beyer, for use by public institutions.

Further Information Susan Jebb is Professor of Diet and Population Health in the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, and Chair of the Department of Health Public Health Responsibility Deal.

Janet Cade, Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Leeds, shares insight into the new online tool that can track, monitor and analyse nutritional intake.

Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided «compelling evidence» that the sugar industry had initiated research «expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.»

Professor, School of Public Health and Social Work; School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology

«I would rather see all those high schools go out and even if they shared an athletic trainer, I'd rather see that than see them all go out and spend money on sensors,» Dawn Comstock, a leading concussion researcher, professor at University of Colorado's School of Public Health, and member of MomsTEAM Institute's Board of Advisors, told SI.

«Lead poisoning is one of those silent epidemics,» says Dr. Jeffrey Griffiths, professor of public health at Tufts University in Boston, who has advised the EPA on water quality for some time.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

One sobering quote I just couldn't get out of my head was from Dr. Mariana Chilton, Ph.D., an associate professor of public health at Drexel University and director of Witnesses to Hunger, who said: This recession will be permanently inscribed in the bodies and the brains of children growing up today.

Speakers include: Laura Abbott, University of Hertfordshire — Having a baby in prison: women's need to love, care and breastfeed their baby Dr Amy Brown, Associate Professor Child Public Health, Swansea University - Examining psychological, social and cultural barriers to responsive breastfeeding Helen Crawley, First Steps Nutrition Trust - The constituents of formula milk: busting the myths.

Dr. Hayes is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Clinical Professor of Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle.

«We found that it wasn't actually the length of breastfeeding that mattered, but the reason why they stopped,» study author Amy Brown, an associate professor of public health and policy studies at Swansea University in the UK, told The Huffington Post.

Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University and author of «What To Eat,» was pleasantly surprised this week to hear that Mrs. Q had stuck with her school lunch blog.

Editor's note: This article was reviewed in by Fern R. Hauck, MD, MS, professor of family medicine and public health sciences at the University of Virginia.