Sentence examples for epidemiology from inspiring English sources

The work that Snow, who was born 200 years ago last Friday, undertook to prove his case remains a classic of medical detection and reveals Snow as one of the founders of epidemiology, a science that has since helped unravel the causes of a host of illnesses and saved countless lives.

This improved knowledge of the complex ecology, epidemiology and distribution of each leishmania species has had considerable public health and therapeutic implications for the control of the wide range of symptoms caused by these parasites.

Although the Wellcome Unit closed in 1992, its legacy continues at the Instituto Evandro Chagas, now a hub for visiting scientists researching all aspects of Leishmania and other parasites, from ecology to epidemiology, immunology and the genetics of host responses to infection.

"Our predictions highlight the rapidly closing window of opportunity for controlling the outbreak, and averting a catastrophic toll of new Ebola cases and deaths in the coming months," warns Alison Galvani, senior author and professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health.

Among science awards are several related to cancer research, including a Damehood for Professor Valerie Beral of the cancer epidemiology unit at Oxford and initiator of the Million Women Study, which recruited 1.3 million women to cancer screening.

Simon Capewell, professor of clinical epidemiology at Liverpool University, said ministers should have used regulation and taxation to combat obesity.

"He said to me, 'Lainson, you can't learn anything about tropical medicine in London, you've got to go to the tropics.'" Garnham arranged for Lainson to go to British Honduras to work on the epidemiology of leishmaniasis.

There he became immersed in classical epidemiology – the study of the occurrence, transmission and control of epidemic disease – while acting as a chief teaching fellow and studying for an MSc at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Sackett had impressed Evans with his declaration that unless epidemiology and statistics were integrated into every part of the curriculum – rather than taught separately – they could not be usefully taught at all.

In 1967, at the age of 32, he was made the founding chair of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics at McMaster, where a revolutionary new medical school was being put together by John Evans.

In putting the patient at the centre of every discussion about diagnosis and treatment, Sackett followed the lead of another pioneer of clinical epidemiology, Alvan Feinstein of Yale Uiversity.