Sentence examples for population science from inspiring English sources

THE Earth Institute at Columbia University combines the latest biology, population science and climate research.

Dr. Rachel Bassociaterbash, associate director of applied research in the division of cancer control and population science at the cancer institute, said, "There have been substantial improvements in appropriate therapy, but there is still room for further improvement".

Population science is once more centre-stage, pushed by climate change, which raises worries about the impact so many billions have on the environment of the earth, and food-price spikes, which imply doubts about whether it will be possible to feed them all.The main concern of demographers in their heyday (the 1970s and 1980s) was high fertility and the total number of the world's people.

Another key element is a balanced portfolio that appreciates the complementary value of basic, translational, clinical, and population science.

But, he says, "When I started, I was really more interested in population science and human health".

So he took additional coursework in epidemiology and biostatistics to get a firm understanding of population science.

Mr. Bell taught population sciences and international health at Harvard from 1981 to 1988, when he retired from its faculty.

In 1978 he became the first director of the Rockefeller Foundation's division of population sciences, where he carried out basic and applied research on reproductive biology.

Dr. Sinding, 58, has many credentials, including posts as former head of the population office of the United States Agency for International Development, senior population adviser to the World Bank, director of population sciences at the Rockefeller Fund and, most recently, professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

One expert who was not involved in the research, Somdat Mahabir, a nutritional epidemiologist with the National Cancer Institute's division of cancer control and population sciences, said the findings from the latest study must be borne out in further research.

Dr. Bernard Levin, a director of the second study and vice president for cancer prevention and population sciences at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, said that despite the drawbacks of Celebrex, the findings were still encouraging because they showed that a drug could reduce polyp formation.