Department of Epidemiology

157th Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
4:00 TO 5:30 PM
Snyder Auditorium, Kresge Building
677 Huntington Ave., Boston, Massachusetts
Grants Writing Workshop
“Epidemiologic Research from Idea to Implementation: Preparing an Application, the Submission and Review Processes, and Possibilities for Funding”

May 2 – 3, 2013

Taught by J. Scott Osborne, PHD, MPH
Cell phone data mining dubbed “breakthrough technology”
Caroline Buckee’s research has been named one of the top 10 “breakthrough technologies” for 2013 by MIT’s Technology Review magazine.
Researchers uncover 74 new genetic risk factors for breast, prostate and ovarian cancer
HSPH’s Peter Kraft recently authored a paper that uncovered four new variants linked with an aggressive form of breast cancer called estrogen receptor (ER)-negative.

Areas of Interest

Students in the Department of Epidemiology specialize in one of twelve Areas of Interest.

These Areas of Interest are: Cancer Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention, Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Clinical Epidemiology, Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, Epidemiologic Methods, Epidemiology of Aging, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Neuro-Psychiatric Epidemiology, Nutritional Epidemiology, Pharmacoepidemiology, and Reproductive, Perinatal, and Pediatric Epidemiology.

A brief overview of each sub-specialty can be found under Areas of Interest.

Mission

We strive to accomplish our mission through three major approaches:

Research
Well-grounded multidisciplinary research toward assessing the distribution and determinants of human illness with the aim of establishing reasoned preventive measures.
Methodology
Continuous efforts to improve methods for epidemiological investigation, to enhance validity and efficiency, and to expand the scope of activities in which epidemiologic methods can be usefully applied.
Education
Preparation of future researchers and practitioners in the field of epidemiology, as well as dissemination of knowledge to health professionals and the general public. As the reach of the School of Public Health is global in scope, so too is our research program. We are committed to the enhancement of quality of health not only in our own country, but internationally.

The Department of Epidemiology has a long tradition of teaching and research in the epidemiology of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic diseases, as well as in epidemiologic methodology.