About the Department
Epidemiology is the study of factors that cause illness and impairment in human populations. It is the cornerstone of population health and clinical research, informing policy, prevention, disease treatment, and understanding of disease mechanisms. A central focus of epidemiology is to go beyond simple prediction to identifying risk factors likely to be causal, upon which interventions and mechanistic understanding can be reliably based.
The Department of Epidemiology and Population Health (E&PH) is Stanford’s academic and organizational home for such activities, offering expertise, research, and training on study design, data collection, analysis and proper interpretation of scientific evidence to improve human health in the clinic and in the field.
Upcoming Events
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July 06, 2020 Epi Special Guest Seminar with Jade Benjamin-Chung (UC Berkeley) Harnessing causal inference methods and data science to advance epidemiology at the interface of the environment and infectious disease
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July 10, 2020 Epi Special Guest Seminar with Saki Takahashi (UCSF) Landscapes of immunity: infectious disease dynamics across scales and insights for control interventions
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E&PH faculty member Abby King discusses the amazing community engagement work being done by Stanford's Our Voice Citizen Science Initiative & Network in the Bay Area and beyond!
E&PH Responds to COVID-19
Read about E&PH community member responses to the COVID-19 crisis, including media appearances, publications, and news stories. You can also access our COVID-19 research project pages.
Epidemiology Seminar Series
We hold weekly seminars featuring the research of internal and guest speakers working in the field of epidemiology every Tuesday from 1:30pm-2:50pm in Li Ka Shing Center LK120, unless otherwise noted on the program calendar.