The world needs answers.
How are health and disease affected by personal characteristics? Behavior? Geography? Time? These are the central questions of epidemiology, the foundation of public health. As epidemiologists, our answers form the basis for developing policies and interventions to protect and improve the health of populations.
The field of epidemiology has grown dramatically in scope and importance in recent decades. With increasing concerns about emerging infections, environmental hazards, and global health disparities, epidemiologists are playing key roles in an expanding range of public health issues. Our faculty members are experts in epidemiologic methods, chronic and infectious diseases epidemiology, and pharmacoepidemiology. We measure how social, behavioral, medical, infectious, and genetic factors relate to a wide range of reproductive, perinatal, and pediatric outcomes, as well as conditions that accompany the aging process. We evaluate the interplay among environmental and societal conditions, psychosocial factors, and disease. And we quantify the risks and benefits of medications and other treatments.
Affiliated Degrees:
MS in EpidemiologyPhD in Epidemiology
Master of Public HealthDoctor of Public Health
Research Clusters:
- Methodology: Measurement, Recruitment, Sampling, Study Design, and Analyses
- Structural and Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity
- Environmental Determinants of Health
- Psychiatric Epidemiology Research
- Infectious Disease Research
- Aging and Chronic Diseases Research
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Developmental Research
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Latest Publications
- Published On 4/15/2024COVID-19 Severity in People With HIV Compared With Those Without HIV.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)read at PubMed
- Published On 4/9/2024SARS-CoV-2-specific cellular and humoral immunity after bivalent BA.4/5 COVID-19-vaccination in previously infected and non-infected individuals.Nature communicationsread at PubMed
- Published On 4/5/2024Long-term aspirin use and cancer risk: a 20-year cohort study.Journal of the National Cancer Instituteread at PubMed
- Published On 4/5/2024Differences in Anthropometric Measures Based on Sex, Age, and Health Status: Findings From the German National Cohort (NAKO).Deutsches Arzteblatt internationalread at PubMed
- Published On 4/4/2024Will all youth answer sexual orientation and gender-related survey questions? An analysis of missingness in a large U.S. survey of adolescents and young adults.Psychological methodsread at PubMed