A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered compelling evidence of a genetic link between bipolar disorder type I (BD-I) and epilepsy, potentially transforming our ...

Chongzhi Di develops statistical methods for analyzing functional and longitudinal data in epidemiologic studies of physical activity and sedentary behavior, particularly using data from mobile-health ...

Epidemiological methods provide a comprehensive toolkit for understanding the distribution, determinants and dynamics of disease within populations. Fundamental to public health, these methods range ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The accuracy of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer can be improved by accounting for genetic factors that cause changes in PSA levels that are not associated with cancer, ...