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The Department of Social and Preventive Medicine brings together faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows with widely diverse backgrounds, but whose research and scientific inquiry is in the area of Epidemiology, Environmental Health and Health Services Administration.
Work by departmental faculty focuses on understanding the determinants and prevention of disease, on the role of environmental factors in health and disease on the administration of health programs to implement that understanding. Our faculty have research interests that include epidemiology of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases in children, diabetes, osteoporosis, eye disease and chronic diseases of aging, 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, 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 are engaged in interdisciplinary research and have an extended history of research collaboration within the region, nationally and internationally.
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