Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The coronavirus pandemic has underscored that the field of epidemiology, which focuses on discovering the causes of disease ...

Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, assistant professor and director of the Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements and Population Health Equity at the Dornsife School of Public Health (DSPH), received the ...

An epidemiologist is a scientist who studies the transmission and control of communicable disease. Epidemics have been the scourge of mankind for generations, and epidemiologists work with doctors and ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 13 percent of epidemiologists worked in hospitals in 2010. These health professionals use their knowledge and skills to determine the potential causes of ...

Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, Edwin McCulley, MS, began his academic journey at Drexel not far from his home in 2014 after serving in the United States Navy in Norfolk, Virginia. He was a ...

The faculty of the Department of Epidemiology are dedicated to advancing population health research using a variety of methodological approaches. Our research, from applied public health to ...

The Global Health Security Agenda, a U.S.-initiated international effort to bolster national and international disease control capabilities, calls for 1 trained field epidemiologist per 200,000 people ...

Like many epidemiologists, I have for the past 15 months been intensely focused on covid-19. One of the most surprising aspects of this work has been the constant, often aggressive, criticism directed ...