Sentences with phrase «public health researchers questioned»

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.

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Perhaps they are nonsensical questions to researchers who, along with the public health community at large, have such a blind spot related to bedsharing that they refuse to acknowledge that there is ANY way to reduce SIDS risk in a baby who sleeps with their parents.

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.

«Funders don't control the composition of the committee, and they don't meet with the committee,» says Harvard public - health researcher Marie McCormick, who chaired the IOM vaccine - safety committee in question.

Brown cautions that this study does not address the question of how to optimize public health expenditures among various programs, but notes that other researchers have begun investigating the costs of foundational public health services at a county - wide level.

In this episode, Scientific American writer Gary Stix talks about the ingenious way researcher Floyd Romesberg is attacking the problem of antibiotic resistance; award - winning journalist Joel Shurkin discusses his new biography of controversial physics Nobel Laureate William Shockley; and genomics researcher Steven Salzberg raises questions about the way flu data is currently shared and disseminated among scientists and the effects on public health.

To try to answer that question, Élyse Caron - Beaudoin, a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal Public Health Research Institute, studied a group of pregnant women who live in the area.

The recent spikes in mumps cases have researchers and public health officials asking several questions: Why is mumps spreading among vaccinated individuals?

However, this is precisely the type of question that researchers are now seeking to answer with the additional funding and resource made available following the WHO statement yesterday declaring the potential link between Zika virus and microcephaly as a public health emergency of internal concern.»

Our annual essay contest engages the next generation of medical researchers, clinical practitioners, and public health specialists in questions of science and policy.

Without question, said the researchers, a great unmet public health need exists for safe, effective and non-addictive strategies to reduce pain and inflammation.

Answered questions from the public, media, researchers, and health department agencies, preparing information for data requests, and acting as author and editor for publications aimed at the general public.

Professor Alex Brown told the conference there are a few key questions that invariably and frequently herald difficult conversations for him as an Aboriginal person, doctor and public health researcher.