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 6/6/2026Hypertension, use of antihypertensive medications and breast cancer survival among Black women.Breast cancer research : BCRread at PubMed
- Published On 6/4/2026Street view-based exposure to greenspace and mortality: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.Environment internationalread at PubMed
- Published On 6/4/2026Kidney health among adolescents living in a high-risk region for CKDu.BMC nephrologyread at PubMed
- Published On 6/4/2026Impact of a Telehealth Navigator Intervention on Hypertension Control Among Black Patients Served by Federally Qualified Health Centers.Journal of general internal medicineread at PubMed
- Published On 6/3/2026Referral of patients with cognitive impairment to specialty memory care: associations with patient-centered outcomes and specificity of diagnoses.American journal of epidemiologyread at PubMed