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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. Our research focus is in epidemiology, disease prevention and community health.
Epidemiologists play a fundamental role in understanding the determinants of disease and also play a key role in the conduct of prevention trials, key elements of our public health mission. Our faculty have research interests that include epidemiology of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, osteoporosis 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, and hormones in relation to risk of chronic diseases, among others.
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, across the United States and abroad.
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