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The Department of Social and Preventive Medicine is dedicated to research and teaching in the areas of Epidemiology, Environmental Health and Health Services Administration. Bringing together faculty, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with widely diverse backgrounds, we are together engaged in developing new ideas, new methods, and new knowledge to improve the health of populations.
Work by departmental faculty focuses on understanding the determinants and prevention of disease, on the role of environmental factors in health and disease and on the administration of health programs to implement that understanding.
Our faculty have research interests that include epidemiology of cancer, infectious diseases in children, diabetes, osteoporosis, eye disease, chronic diseases of aging, and cardiovascular diseases, as well as research in the areas of women's health, disease prevention, molecular epidemiology and environmental and occupational epidemiology. Included in this work is evaluation of factors such as nutrition, physical activity and physical fitness, stress, genetic factors, hormones and hand hygiene in relation to risk of chronic and infectious diseases.
The Department has an active and well-funded research program with a long history of research activity. Our faculty have an extended history of research collaboration within the region, nationally and internationally.
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