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February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
An examination of stress sensitization among perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV) found that past-year stressors in adulthood increase the risk of IPV perpetration among people with a history of childhood adversity.
October 30, 2012 | Story
As director of epidemiology for the Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County (Indiana), Joe Gibson, MPH, PhD, used Common Ground funding to define business processes that could be scaled up in an emergency.
July 6, 2011 | Story
"CDC and state health departments often conduct joint investigations of disease outbreaks, but only a tiny fraction of these investigations have focused on asthma. The reason is a lack of timely and specific data about the geography of asthma."
June 14, 2010 | Story
In the 1980s, public health officials in Barcelona, Spain, began to notice a series of asthma outbreaks that resulted in unusually high numbers of emergency room visits.
January 1, 2004 | Program Result
The Epidemic Intelligence Service is a two-year, postgraduate program that trains physicians and other health professionals in skills necessary to investigate infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics.
June 26, 2009 | Story
Two rising stars in the fields of epidemiology and economics work together to reveal new information on poverty and chronic illness.
May 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Reducing health disparities is central to the work of both social epidemiology and community-engaged interventions, but practitioners in both fields have had little success working together to reduce health inequalities. The authors recommend promoting transdisciplinary training and practices.
July 15, 2006 | Commentary
This paper discusses the complex epidemiological challenges that an aging population, such as exists in the United States presents.
September 13, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
In this latest trip to Washington, the 16 other individuals and organizations that were similarly honored had the chance to meet with top technology leaders from The White House, including Aneesh Chopra (Chief Technology Officer) and Vivek Kundra (C ...
May 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The sexually transmitted diseases, chlamydia and gonorrhea, are easy to cure but often go undiagnosed because they are mostly asymptomatic. Untreated, they can cause ectopic pregnancies, PID (pelvic inflammatory disease) and infertility. This study ...