Areas of Scholarship and Research
The Department of Epidemiology has several major areas of research, including:
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular disease
- Children’s health
- Comparative effectiveness research
- Environmental epidemiology
- Genetics/epigenetics
- Global health
- Health behaviors including tobacco, alcohol, drugs, violence
- Health services
- Infectious disease
- Molecular epidemiology
- Nutritional and physical activity
- Obesity and diabetes
- Perinatal, reproductive and life course
- Pharmacoepidemiology
- Psychiatric and mental health
- Quantitative methods
- Social determinants of health
- Women's health





