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The Department of Epidemiology is loosely divided into nine primary research program areas: cancer, cardiovascular, environmental/occupational, health care, infectious disease, injury, pharmacoepidemiology, reproductive/perinatal/pediatric, and social epidemiology. Within these areas there is, of course, a good deal of overlap.
Cancer Research
- Evaluation of gene-environment interaction, using molecular biology techniques
- Investigate disparities in cancer incidence and mortality among minority groups
- Development of epidemiologic, statistical, and laboratory methods in cancer research
- Carolina Breast Cancer Study
- North Carolina Colon Cancer Study
- North Carolina Head and Neck Cancer Study
- Long Island Breast Cancer Study
- Genetic Epidemiology of Melanoma Study
- North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project
- Women's Health Initiative
- Learn more about Cancer Research in Epidemiology
Cardiovascular Research
- Air pollution / environmental factors and CVD
- Application of GIS to studies of CVD
- CHD, stroke, heart failure, and kidney disease surveillance
- Etiology / control of CVD and kidney disease in diverse groups
- Genetic causes of diabetes, obesity, and hypertension
- Life course socioeconomic and racial disparities in CVD
- Neighborhood influences on physical activity and CVD
- Physical activity in adolescents and postpartum women
- Improving access to and quality of acute stroke care
- Learn more about Cardiovascular Research in Epidemiology
Environment/Occupational Research
- Cancer risks from occupational and environmental agents
- Perinatal and pediatric effects of environmental exposures
- Health effects of air and water pollutants
- Health effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation
- Environmental justice
- Occupational injuries
- Methodological Research
- Learn more about Environmental/Occupational Research in Epidemiology
Health Care and Pharmacoepidemiology
- Prevalence of disease studies
- Studies of medication use and disease outcomes using large databases and electronic medical records
- Medical record abstraction studies
- Multiple disease areas: diabetes, depression, women's health, HIV
- Evidence-based medicine including systematic reviews
- Methodological research related to confounder adjustment including propensity scores and doubly robust modeling
- Includes funding from the UNC-GlaxoSmithKline Center of Excellence in Pharmacoepidemiology and Public Health
- Pre-doctoral funding from several pharmaceutical companies
- Learn more about Health Care and Pharmacoepidemiology Research in Epidemiology
Infectious Disease Research
Injury Research
- Design and conduct of epidemiologic research directed at the prevention of injuries
- Risk Factor Studies
- Intervention Studies
- Occupational Injury
- Sports and Recreational Injury
- Transport-Related Injury
- Violence
- Focues on the application of advanced methods to the study of injury
- Learn more about Injury Research in Epidemiology
Reproductive Research
For more details about the role of research or specific research projects at either the Department of Epidemiology or at the School of Public Health, vist:
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Last updated March 10, 2009 |
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