Epidemiology and Public Health
Faculty and students are actively involved in a broad spectrum of methodological and
collaborative research in Epidemiology, Health Behavior & Health Equity, Environmental
Health, and Health Policy and Management. Collaborative projects with Epidemiology
faculty include gene microarray data from epidemiological studies, studies of social
inequality and psychosocial/economic factors in disease prevention, a national longitudinal
study of women health (SWAN), a cohort study of coronary artery calcification, and
studies of reproduction. Collaborative projects include studies of the effects of
air-pollution and interventions on children with asthma, school-based intervention
studies on children with asthma, intervention studies on women with heart disease,
longitudinal studies on school dropout and substance abuse, a national drug abuse
treatment survey, and national cost analysis of end-stage renal disease. Many results
of our methodological research have direct application to public health problems that
involve case-control and two-stage sampling, survival analysis, disease mapping, group
randomization trials, and spatial analysis.
Faculty: V. Baladandayuthapani, M. Banerjee, P. Boonstra, T. Braun, M. Elliott, P. Han, G. Li, N. Henderson, B. Mukherjee, P. Song, J. Taylor, A. Tsodikov, L. Wang, Z. Wu, W. Ye, M. Zhang, X. Zhou