Epidemiology

Epidemiology studies people, patients and populations, and their diseases: their incidence, causes and consequences and possible control. It is a fundamental discipline for clinical medicine and public health. It may, together with basic science and clinical research, provide tools to learn about the aetiology and consequences of diseases, the possibilities for prevention and treatment and the risk profiles of individuals and populations. Epidemiology plays an integral role in the application of medical research to populations, interacting with almost every other specialism. Using advanced - predominantly quantitative - methods such as statistical analyses, field research and complex laboratory techniques, epidemiologists map various elements of a disease and the ways they are related.

Research areas in epidemiology of current interest are: cancer, cardiovascular diseases, genetic causes of complex diseases, neurologic diseases and diseases in childhood.

Our Master of Science programmes and short courses in Epidemiology: