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She earned a master's degree in 1977, with a thesis on Regression to the mean in sequential measurement of blood pressure. Afterwards she stayed at the school as an epidemiologist. [2] In 1981, Stinnett moved to North Carolina, and in 1982 she entered the doctoral program in biostatistics at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.
VanderWeele’s research has focused on causal inference in epidemiology, the study of happiness and human flourishing, as well as the relationship between religion and health. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He is author of the book Measuring Well-Being , [ 4 ] along with an influential approach to conceptualizing and assessing flourishing.
Public health journals often indicate their target audience as being interdisciplinary, including health care professionals, public health decision-makers and researchers. A main objective is to support evidence-based policy and evidence-based practice in public health. [1] [2] [3] In contrast, medical journals (e.g.
Platz also co-led a 10-year study of more than 30,000 health professionals that found the longer men take cholesterol-lowering drugs, the far less likely they were to develop advanced prostate cancer. [4] In 2008, Platz was appointed co-director of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. [5]
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". [1] [2] Analyzing the determinants of health of a population and the threats it faces is the basis for public health. [3]
Thesis Race, class, and health: studies of breast cancer and hypertension (1989) Nancy Krieger is an American epidemiologist who is professor of social epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health .
In 2003, Wang joined the Children's Memorial Institute for Education and Research as director of the Mary Ann and J. Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program. She eventually returned to her alma mater, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and became the director of the Center on the Childhood Origins of Disease.
Andrew Spielman (24 February 1930 – 20 December 2006) was a prominent American public health entomologist and Professor of Tropical Public Health in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).