Development of common disorders involves a complex interplay of multiple factors. We may assume that many genes and many environmental factors are involved. Future gene–environmental cohort studies ...

The Department of Epidemiology offers two graduate certificates – a 12-credit Epidemiology Methods Certificate and a 9-credit Applied Epidemiology Certificate. Both certificates are intended to ...

Research led by scientists at St George's, University of London, has discovered 119 areas in the genome that help to determine the size and shape of blood vessels at the back of the eye, and that an ...

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Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers flooded journals with studies about the then-novel coronavirus. Many publications streamlined the peer-review process for COVID-19 papers while keeping ...

All faculty in the Department of Epidemiology have research backgrounds, and many have public health practice experience. Research and practice are done in all major areas of epidemiology, including ...

Now in his final quarter of the MPH program, Varun Awasthi has much to reflect on as he prepares for graduation in June 2026.

An ad hoc consensus committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will conduct an epidemiologic study of the health of veterans who served at Fort McClellan, Alabama, from ...