Sentences with phrase «public health researchers»

Researchers interviewed 32 Australian civil servants, parliamentary ministers, and ministerial advisers who had been identified as «research - engaged» by public health researchers questioned in an earlier phase of the project.

Medical and public health researchers who work day in and day out to cure disease and keep us healthy should not be used as an excuse to undermine Medicare and penalise the poor.

As medical and public health researchers we do not want to be used by the government as an excuse to undermine Medicare and penalise the poor.

The campaign is being launched by a group of medical and public health researchers from across the nation because while we obviously think health and medical research is vital and that public good research should receive public funding, we also believe that funding should come from a universal, progressive and fair tax.

How does a team of public health researchers persuade a multinational corporate like Google to part with many of hundreds of thousands of dollars?

Commission members met for the first time at The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center last July, and over the last year, have engaged environmental and health scientists, policy specialists, and public health researchers to create the recommendations, analysis, and case studies necessary to advance this field of inquiry.

According to several leading climate scientists and public health researchers, global warming will lead to higher incidence and more intense versions of disease.

Climate scientists use the same statistical techniques to determine global warming's influence in extreme climate events as public health researchers use to investigate the health impacts of smoking and asbestos exposure.

Many microbiologists and medical researchers say the basic methods used in this work are already established, and that the research details will help public health researchers get out ahead of the next human flu epidemic more than they might help aspiring terrorists.

We are beginning a dialogue with public health researchers, behavior and social science researchers, statisticians, and many other stakeholders to truly understand the challenges and develop new solutions to the problem.

Harvard School of Public Health researchers estimate that trans fat had been causing about 50,000 premature heart attack deaths annually, making partially hydrogenated oil one of the most harmful ingredients in the food supply (see discussion of salt).

For this study, Emory investigators led by Tansey and Jeremy Boss, PhD, chair of microbiology and immunology, teamed up with Stewart Factor, DO, head of Emory's Comprehensive Parkinson's Disease Center, and public health researchers from UCLA led by Beate Ritz, MD, PhD.

Public health researchers seeking to determine an individual's risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary heart disease (CHD), or stroke have previously relied on national US data, such as that provided by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES).

A new study by public health researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development finds that the severity of the problem within the state is not the most important predictor of whether states adopt new laws to restrict drunk driving — nor is the political makeup of the state government.

Two platforms have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use and UTHealth School of Public Health researchers, led by Zhi - Dong Jiang, M.D., Dr.P.H., were involved in the testing process for these platforms..

Public health researchers have linked states» gun laws to levels of gun violence.

A study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers found that injecting a vaccine - like compound into mice was effective in protecting them from malaria.

After years of steady decline, binge drinking appears to have leveled off this year, and public health researchers will be closely watching these behaviors in the coming years.

Texas A&M School of Public Health researchers have already shown that stand - capable workstations — those in which the worker could raise or lower the desk to stand or sit as they wished throughout the day — boost productivity in office workers, help students» cognitive functioning and improve kids» BMI.

Meanwhile, public health researchers are looking hard at the federal food stamp program itself, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

A group of public health researchers announced at a workshop held here last week that the virus's DNA sequence shows conclusively that it is the West Nile virus — an identification that was under debate until recently.

Public health researchers at Harvard found that elderly patients were less likely to die or be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days if treated by female doctors rather than male.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers found that men, blacks, and low - income populations had higher risk estimates from PM2.5 exposure compared with the national average, with blacks having mortality risks three times higher than the national average.

Public health researchers and health advocates have focused on how all - you - can - eat buffets influence people's eating habits.

In May 1998, public health researchers writing in the medical journal The Lancet warned that the Three Gorges Dam «could become the Chernobyl of hydropower».

The tool itself, which projects a worse - case scenario of 14,176 Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone by October 26, is currently built on a model developed by a Toronto - based team of medical and public health researchers, although HealthMap may try other methods down the road, says John Brownstein, HealthMap co-founder and an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers are calling upon police in all states to improve their reporting of crashes involving vehicles and bicycles, according to a new study being published April 2, 2015.

Changing just one seated meeting per week at work into a walking meeting increased the work - related physical activity levels of white - collar workers by 10 minutes, according to a new study published by public health researchers with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers say a new candidate vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) made with a weakened version of the virus shows great promise at fighting the disease, the leading cause of hospitalization for children under the age of one in the U.S.

The quality of the neighborhood where a child grows up has a significant impact on the number of problem behaviors they display during elementary and teenage years, a study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers suggests.

In a draft of the health impact assessment released in February 2011, the School of Public Health researchers concluded that without pollution control measures, emissions from drilling would likely be high enough to cause disease in Battlement Mesa, including respiratory and neurological problems, birth defects and cancer.

Genetic tests to detect these microbes could be used by public health researchers trying to find and quarantine outbreaks of bird flu, for example, or by military personnel looking for evidence of a bioterror agent.

If users were paid to upload their fitness data to a database, along with demographic information in their profiles, public health researchers would be able to custom - build health research surveys to answer all sorts of questions.

So when the initial investigation yielded inconclusive results, public health researchers turned to in - depth personal interviews with 10 people who had fallen ill.

Pediatricians and public health researchers know they have to be on the lookout for lead exposure from paint chips and contaminated drinking water.

Not only did the Harvard School of Public Health researchers find that frightening increase; that was when drinking cold liquids.

The controversy over carrageenan has existed between food industry representatives and public health researchers for decades, but it has flared up again over the past few years with its use in organic food.

And Pruitt seems far more inclined to grant those exceptions to polluting industries, not public health researchers.

«In the early days of insurance, [companies] looked at height as an indication of survival,» said David Batty, an epidemiology and public health researcher at the University College London, who was not involved in the study.

I myself am also a public health researcher and wanted to make the best choice for my babe.

He is an epidemiologist by training and an acclaimed public health researcher, whose work has focused on driving improvements in data quality to support changes in health care.

For the people of Hoosick Falls who are trying to make sense of what the high levels of PFOA in the bloodstream means, the fact sheet doesn't convey the weight of the health risks detailed in published studies, said Laurel Schaider, an environmental chemist and public health researcher at the Silent Springs Institute, which studies the links between environmental contamination and human health.

«There might not be a huge burden of disease from heat - related illness right now in your community,» says Jeremy Hess, an emergency medicine physician and public health researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle.

UQ School of Public Health researcher Dr Mark Jones said women over 75 faced a 33 per cent higher chance of developing diabetes if they were taking statins.

«I call it foodless and useless,» nutrition and public health researcher Marion Nestle, told the Los Angeles Times.

The work highlights «a major public health issue,» says Jonathan Patz, a public health researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who not involved with the research.

Easier access to concealed firearms is associated with significantly higher rates of handgun - related homicide, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher.

«The breadth and growth of predatory journals are astonishing and concerning,» says Jocalyn Clark, a public health researcher at the University of Toronto in Canada, and a veteran of scientific training and publishing in the developing world.

Elizabeth Hanna, a public health researcher at Australia National University in Canberra, has a hard time reconciling another shrunken body of water, Lake George, with the shimmering sea of her youth.

But Mark Kaplan, a public health researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, Luskin School of Public Affairs, who was not involved in the study, cautions these programs «need to be done alongside other things.