Epidemiology and Public Health
Faculty and students are actively involved in a broad spectrum of methodological and
collaborative research in Epidemiology, Health Behavior and Health Education, 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