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
Latest Department News
Latest Publications
- Published On 5/1/2025Aschengrau and Seage's Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health
- Published On 4/22/2025A Narrative Review of Spatial-Temporal Data Sources for Estimating Population-Level Exposures to Oil and Gas Development in the United States.Current environmental health reportsread at PubMed
- Published On 4/9/2025Fighting tuberculosis hand in hand: A call to engage communities affected by TB as essential partners in research.PLOS global public healthread at PubMed
- Published On 4/8/2025Automated identification of fall-related injuries in unstructured clinical notes.American journal of epidemiologyread at PubMed
- Published On 4/8/2025Invited commentary: "Neighborhood eviction trajectories and odds of moderate and serious psychological distress during pregnancy among African American women".American journal of epidemiologyread at PubMed