Doug Brugge of Tufts University Department of Public Health and Community Medicine said uranium has been linked to kidney damage and birth defects in animals.
1 But the group ran into an unexpected obstacle when the community leaders questioned the necessity of Tufts' human subjects protection requirements, says Raymond Hyatt, PhD, MS, assistant professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University in Boston, MA.
A new study from PHI, a national nonprofit organization working to strengthen the eldercare and disability services workforce, completed in collaboration with Amy Lischko, DSc, assistant professor in the department of public health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, found that most employers in this sector offered employer-based insurance, but their direct-care employees did not enroll.
The students - medical and public health professionals from Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Colombia, Uzbekistan, India and the US - are completing a one-year international masters program in public heath (IMPH) at the Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, part of the universitys medical school.
Lead author Dr Alan Kristal, a professor at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, said the effect may be to do with increased body awareness rather than the physical activity.
He is a graduate of Harvard College, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine.
Cooperative uses grant to evaluate quality plan Joint venture will involve academic researchers The University of Washington (UW) School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Seattle has received a two-year, $656,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to evaluate the impact of Group Health Cooperative's recent innovations to improve access and quality of care for its members.
