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| | | The Department of Epidemiology is committed to discovering and disseminating knowledge of the distribution, determinants and prevention of disease, disability and premature death in populations. Our faculty offer substantial experience in cardiovascular/renal diseases, infectious diseases, occupational and environmental epidemiology, reproductive epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, clinical trials, and epidemiologic methodology. The Department of Epidemiology prepares students for careers in research, academia and public health practice. We offer masters and doctoral degree programs. | | | | | | | Tulane Department of Epidemiology in the News | | | | | | Green Leafy Vegetables, Fruit Intake Linked to Lower Risk for Diabetes in Women Women who have a higher intake of green leafy vegetables and fruit have a lower risk for type 2 diabetes, whereas those who have a higher intake of fruit juices may have an increased risk for the disease, according to the results of a study reported in the July issue of Diabetes Care. | | Tulane University Study Charts Heavy Global Burden of Obesity Waistlines are expanding at such an alarming rate across the globe that, if trends hold, almost 58 percent of the world's population will be overweight or obese by 2030, according to researchers at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. | | Professor Jiang He receives the 2008 Distinguished Alumnus Award of Johns Hopkins University Jiang He, professor of epidemiology, medicine and human genetics; director, Office of Health Research; and Joseph S. Copes MD Chair in Epidemiology, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, was selected to receive the 2008 Distinguished Alumnus Award of Johns Hopkins University. A graduate of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Jiang He earned his Ph.D. from the department of epidemiology in 1996. The Distinguished Alumnus Award honors alumni who have typified the Johns Hopkins tradition of excellence and brought credit to the university by their personal accomplishment, professional achievement or humanitarian service. Jiang He received the award at the Johns Hopkins Convocation exercises in Baltimore on May 21. At the award ceremony, Michael J. Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, praised professor He’s exemplary achievements as a scientist and teacher. “Dr. Jiang He is a world renowned cardiovascular disease epidemiologist. He makes great contributions to the primary prevention of hypertension and related cardiovascular diseases in the world”. | | Study Shows Training Improves Care for Mothers (read more) A study involving researchers at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and other institutions showed that hospital education programs can change physician behavior over the long term. An article on the study appears in the May 1 New England Journal of Medicine. | | Tulane Gains Infectious Disease Epidemiologist Ivo M. Foppa (read more)
For most people, the mosquitoes that plague the Gulf Coast are an unpleasant reality -- but for Tulane University infectious disease epidemiologist Ivo M. Foppa, they are a star attraction. Foppa recently joined the faculty at Tulane as an assistant professor in the department of epidemiology at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. | | Smoking is Major Risk Factor for Stroke in China (read more)
Study shows smoking prevention and cessation could be an important approach to reducing the societal burden of stroke in China. | | Sniffing the Air for Mold (read more)
Although it resembles a UFO, the metal contraption atop the Deming Pavilion on Tulane's downtown campus is actually part of serious science. Tulane University epidemiologist Felicia Rabito and her team are using a spore trap to collect air samples in New Orleans to find out if there is a relationship between environmental exposure and mold allergies in city residents. | | | | | |
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