Mainstreaming FATA: A Public Policy Imperative

Public outreach: a scientific imperative.

Editor’s Note: In 2003, the Society for Neuroscience initiated the Science Educator Award to recognize an outstanding neuroscientist who has made significant contributions to the education of the public. For a description of the award, see http://www. sfn.org/sea. Previous awardees are Eric Chudler (2003), Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom (2004), Colin Blakemore (2005), and Roberta Diaz Brinton (2006). ...

Understanding Vaccines: A Public Imperative

Though once a discovery greatly celebrated by the nation, the vaccine has come under fire in recent decades from skeptics, critics, and a movement set into motion by fraudulent scientists and fueled by frustrated parents looking for answers to the autism conundrum. There is enough denialist resistance to vaccination to bring upon renewed fear of young children and infants becoming infected with...

Mainstreaming Agroforestry Policy in Tanzania Legal Framework

Chronic kidney disease in the United States: a public policy imperative.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In the past decade, a crisis in nephrology has slowly emerged in the areas of both clinical care and public policy. In 2003, the Council of American Kidney Societies (CAKS) identified 19 barriers to improved patient outcomes in chronic kidney disease (CKD). DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Site visits and in-depth telephone interviews were conducted with...

Food Safety Informatics: A Public Health Imperative

To date, little has been written about the implementation of utilizing food safety informatics as a technological tool to protect consumers, in real-time, against foodborne illnesses. Food safety outbreaks have become a major public health problem, causing an estimated 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. Yet, government inspectors/regulators t...