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About Epidemiology @ UCI
Epidemiology as a discipline is concerned with the distribution,
causation and control of disease across time and space in
human populations. The mission of the Department of Epidemiology at the UC Irvine School of Medicine is to study the etiology
(genetic and environmental) and control of chronic disease,
particularly cancer, through its surveillance, education,
research and service activities.
Faculty research interests include genetics and molecular epidemiology, cancer epidemiology, biostatistics, statistical genetics, environmental epidemiology, reproductive
epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, infectious diseases, and occupational epidemiology.
The UCI Center for Cancer
Genetics Research and Prevention operates within the Department of Epidemiology.
Our Mission
- expand and integrate basic, clinical and epidemiologic research to identify
and characterize genes responsible for inherited predisposition to cancer.
- provide the infrastructure to establish effective interventions in individuals
with inherited predispositions to cancer.
- establish approaches to study the interactions between genes and individual
genetic variations and the environment to understand cancer risk.
- develop the informatics needed to collect, store, analyze, and integrate
the resulting molecular, epidemiologic and clinical data.
- identify the causes of diseases in relation to environmental exposures,
life style conditions, and genetic factors.
- improve the level of education of medical students, graduate students, residents,
and fellows in the application of epidemiologic principles to their research.
- promote the application of epidemiologic methods in clinical medicine, prevention
and control of diseases.
- evaluation of community needs to assist in health planning.
- monitor incidence of disease in the population to provide information in
making decisions concerning public health.
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Announcements
School of Medicine Establishes New Department of Epidemiology
Dr. Hoda Anton-Culver named Founding Chair (Details)
Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications (PubMed)
Click here for a list of selected publications to which Epidemiology Division faculty have contributed.
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