astronomy

Silvia Martins

Silvia Martins is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Silvia Martins rather than just read about it. In short: Silvia Saboia Martins is a Brazilian epidemiologist and the director of the Substance Use Epidemiology Unit of the Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her research considers the epidemiology of substances abuse and origins of high opioid prescribing.

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Reference excerpt

Silvia Saboia Martins is a Brazilian epidemiologist and the director of the Substance Use Epidemiology Unit of the Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Her research considers the epidemiology of substances abuse and origins of high opioid prescribing. She has won numerous awards for her mentoring, including the Irving Medical Center Mentor of the Year.

Early life and education Martins earned her medical degree at the Federal University of Paraná. She moved to the University of São Paulo for her psychiatry residency and doctoral studies, where she was awarded a São Paulo Research Foundation predoctoral fellowship. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where she was appointed to the faculty in 2005. Here she studied the prevalence of gambling among young people, and found that around 15% of African-American inner-city young people had some form of problem gambling.

Research and career In 2012 Martins joined Columbia University. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of substance use. She has studied the impact of medical and recreational cannabis laws in the United States. Her focus extends to exploring the combined effects of opioid and cannabis policies on mitigating opioid-related harm outcomes in the country. She also studies the trends in drug overdoses in Latin America. She has analysed the implications of opioid and substance use policies specifically designed for pregnant and postpartum women who are opioid users in the U.S. She found that during 2020 overdoses played a role in one in six pregnancy-associated deaths. She has studied the typology of prescription drug monitoring programs, and how it impacts opioid and heroin overdoses. She has developed machine learning techniques to understand high opioid prescribing. She was elected to the board of directors of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence in 2022.

Awards and honours 2017 Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring 2021 Columbia University Irving Medical Center Mentor of the Year Award 2021 Tow Leadership Scholar 2021 Calderone Health Equity Awards

Select publications William W Eaton; Silvia S Martins; Gerald Nestadt; O Joseph Bienvenu; Diana Clarke; Pierre Alexandre (19 September 2008). "The burden of mental disorders". Epidemiologic Reviews. 30: 1–14. doi:10.1093/epirev/mxn011. ISSN 0193-936X. PMC 2683377. PMID 18806255. Wikidata Q37195491. Magdalena Cerda; Christine Mauro; Ava Hamilton; et al. (13 November 2019). "Association Between Recreational Marijuana Legalization in the United States and Changes in Marijuana Use and Cannabis Use Disorder From 2008 to 2016". JAMA Psychiatry. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.3254. ISSN 2168-622X. PMID 31722000. Wikidata Q91268359. Silvia S Martins; Laura Sampson; Magdalena Cerdá; Sandro Galea (November 2015). "Worldwide Prevalence and Trends in Unintentional Drug Overdose: A Systematic Review of the Literature". American Journal of Public Health. 105 (11): e29-49, 2373. doi:10.2105/ajph.2015.302843. ISSN 1541-0048. PMC 4605170. PMID 26451760. Wikidata Q26785445.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Silvia Martins

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Silvia Martins claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Silvia Martins before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Silvia Martins ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Silvia Martins

In research: Silvia Martins appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Silvia Martins in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Silvia Martins is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 21st-century Brazilian women scientists, Brazilian emigrants to the United States, Brazilian epidemiologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Silvia Martins outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Silvia Martins matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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