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 12/1/2025Effect of Knee Extensor Power on Knee Pain in Adults With or at Risk for Osteoarthritis: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study.The Journal of rheumatologyread at PubMed
- Published On 12/1/2025HIV Patient Treatment Adherence Trajectories in First 24 months After ART Initiation Among Adults: An Electronic Health Records Cohort From South Africa.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)read at PubMed
- Published On 11/24/2025Elevated risk of infectious diseases in adulthood after prenatal or early postnatal exposure to the Great Chinese Famine.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of Americaread at PubMed
- Published On 11/20/2025Impact of oil and gas boom and busts on working-age mortality in the U.S.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.)read at PubMed
- Published On 11/10/2025Prognostic value of an abnormal chest X-ray result in predicting the development of tuberculosis.Nature communicationsread at PubMed