Epidemiology

Cancer cluster investigations rarely have conclusive outcomes, but they still provide communities with vital information.

A guide for people who want to dig deeper into scientific claims.

Tracing the health impacts of chemical exposures decades after they happen is endlessly complex. Researchers are finding new ways to untangle the effects.

The research so far—including one of the largest studies yet on the topic—suggests that Tylenol use during pregnancy does not cause autism. 

Pathogens passed from animals to humans can trigger outbreaks like those of COVID-19 or Ebola. One Health offers a holistic approach to stopping these spillovers at their source.

Robbins co-leads the Risk Assessment and Early Detection Team at the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer.

New study details gaps between actual and recommended use of statins and other lipid-lowering drugs—and estimates public health benefits of closing those gaps

Autism diagnosis rates have risen over the past two decades—but why? An autism researcher explains what's behind the increase.

Pandemics. Wars. Existential financial threats. The Bloomberg School has long used its hard-won experience to anticipate and shape the future.

The long quest to stop the human immunodeficiency virus offers an instructive example.

Liz Selvin is taking on the slow-burn diseases—chronic illnesses that our health care systems are ill-equipped to handle.

Jinqi Zhan is a MHS student in the Department of Biostatistics, while concurrently a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology, with a focus on innovative clinical trial design.

The Online Professional Training in Epidemiology for Health Managers is more than a course—it’s transformative for public health professionals across Latin America and Spain.

Community bonds and a human touch have helped scientists collect some of the world's best population-based data on cardiovascular disease risk.

How a retracted study from the 1990s led to a persistent myth about vaccines.