Search results for "Public Health"
Army physicians on the front line of infectious disease research
This trial was conducted by the Thai Ministry of Public Health in collaboration with a team of leading Thai and U.S. ... He formed a friendship with the dean of the Makerere University Institute of Public Health in Kampala on his first trip there.
February 2010
Clearing the air about climate change
I think it's a general recognition that climate change is a public health issue, maybe even the most important public health issue of our generation,” said Dr. ... sciences at the University of Washington's School of Public Health in Seattle.
September 2016
Nominees named for College Officer and Regent positions
Wayne J. Riley, MD, MPH, MBA, MACP. Education: BA, Yale University, New Haven, Ct., 1981; MPH, Tulane University School of Public Health, New Orleans, 1988; MD, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, ... Areas of expertise: Medical education,
November 2013
The push toward a COVID-19 vaccine
Bell said. She also encouraged clinicians to be prepared to collaborate closely with state and local public health departments on vaccination efforts. ... One thing that we all have agreed upon—local public health officials, state public health
November 2020
Cuba is just across the water, but medically, a different world
A: I became interested in Cuba during my public health training at the University of Washington in Seattle. ... Q: What were the most notable differences from the U.S. health care system?
September 2010
Simple family history acts as a genetic test for skin cancer
Indeed, numerous public health campaigns have focused on ultraviolet light exposure as a risk for melanoma.
November 2008
Know the patient to achieve statin benefits
In the 1980s, the public health message was to “know your cholesterol.” In the 1990s, it was to “know your cholesterol and treat to lower the level of LDL.” Now, Dr. ... Hayward, co-director of the Ann Arbor VA Health Services Research Center of
November 2010
In Haiti, flawed health care infrastructure complicates rebuilding
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2010/05/editors.htm. Internists help pick up the pieces in Haiti, a country facing a public health crisis following a devastating earthquake. ... Before the earthquake, Haiti's health infrastructure was already borderline
May 2010
Communication skills vital to cancer conversations
Politi, PhD, assistant professor in the division of public health sciences at Washington University in St. ... Mary C. Politi, PhD, assistant professor in the division of public health sciences at Washington University in St.
September 2013
Candidates announced for Board of Governors Chair-elect Designee
He completed his residency at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., and then obtained a Master's in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. ... He was also on the Scientific Planning Committee for
September 2016