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Topic: Epidemiologists

	Epidemiologists Need to Shatter the Myth of a Risk-Free Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Epidemiologists can tell you what's likely to happen in general, but never what is going to happen to you in a specific situation.
		When it arrived, in Reagan-era America, epidemiologists -- particularly those at the federal Centers for Disease Control -- were unwilling to run the political risk of naming the social forces that drove people into the circles and venues where they were likely to contract the AIDS virus.
		Epidemiologists, shamefully, bought into the moralist agenda, recoded the work of epidemic control in terms of behavioral proscription and prescription, and started talking about the individual instead of the society.
	www.ph.ucla.edu /EPI/bioter/shattermyth.html (2021 words)

	ISPE: Resources
		Epidemiologists should take appropriate measures to prevent their data from publication or release in a form that would allow individual subjects to be personally identified.
		Epidemiologists meet their obligations to communities by undertaking public health research and practice activities that address causes of morbidity and mortality or utilization of health care resources, and by reporting results in a timely fashion so that the widest possible community stands to benefit.
		Epidemiologists have an obligation to communicate with communities directly or through community representatives to explain what they are doing and why, to transmit the results of their studies, to explain their significance, and to suggest appropriate action, such as the provision of health care.
	www.pharmacoepi.org /resources/ethdraft.cfm (6809 words)

	Cancer Clusters - National Cancer Institute
		Epidemiologists have identified certain circumstances that may lead them to suspect a potential common source or cause of cancer among people thought to be part of a cancer cluster.
		Epidemiologists also try to establish whether the suspected exposure has the potential to cause the reported cancer, based on what is known about that cancer’s likely causes and about the cancer-causing potential of the exposure.
		Epidemiologists must show that the number of cancer cases that have occurred is significantly greater than the expected number of cases, given the age, gender, and racial distribution of the group of people at risk of developing the disease.
	www.cancer.gov /cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/clusters (2668 words)

	Medical scientists
		Epidemiologists who are not physicians often collaborate with physicians to find ways to contain diseases and outbreaks.
		Epidemiologists who perform laboratory tests often require the knowledge and expertise of a licensed physician in order to administer drugs to patients in clinical trials.
		Medical scientists and some epidemiologists are less likely to lose their jobs during recessions than are those in many other occupations because they are employed on long-term research projects.
	www.umsl.edu /services/govdocs/ooh20042005/www.bls.gov/OCO/ocos008.htm (2591 words)

	Epidemiologists on the Job - BioRap - public health
		Epidemiologists study diseases as widespread as the flu and as population specific as sickle-cell anemia, a disease primarily occurring in African-Americans.
		Epidemiologists study the health of a community; the community could be as small as a school or as large as a continent.
		Epidemiologists specialize in many areas: infectious disease epidemiology, chronic disease epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, occupational epidemiology, and environmental epidemiology to name a few.
	www.biorap.org /rg/rgcancerepidem.html (287 words)

	Information Needs Assessment: Epidemiologists
		Epidemiologists are highly trained professionals, and many of them are in fact medical doctors as well.
		In fact, between 1995 and 2000 it was expected that the need for epidemiologists was going to triple (Association of Schools of Public Health, 1995), an indicator of the growing regard for the profession.
		Therefore, it would be valuable for epidemiologists to have access to a single standardized database of epidemiological studies, their numerical results, and subsequently identified risk factors.
	home.pacbell.net /wallschw/lisa/infoneed.htm (2686 words)

	Emerging Themes in Epidemiology \| Full text \| Biodemographic perspectives for epidemiologists
		While epidemiologists have an appreciation of the importance of the aging process in disease expression, aging per se is not a focus of research in the discipline.
		Although one role of the epidemiologist is to improve quality of life, often at best what can be accomplished is slowing the progression of diseases and conditions expressed in older regions of the lifespan by suppressing their symptoms.
		The biological consequences of aging are crucial factors for epidemiologists, whose concepts and methods for the pursuit of specific causes and risk factors are not entirely applicable to animals living long enough to experience the Medawarian Paradox.
	www.ete-online.com /content/2/1/10 (4382 words)

	Epidemiologist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Epidemiologist are scientists who study patterns of disease occurrence in populations and ways to prevent or control disease.
		For example, an epidemiologist may conduct research on factors associated with birth defects or on the effectiveness of certain cancer treatments.
		Epidemiologist provide the scientific data to help governments, health agencies, health care providers and communities deal with epidemics and health issues.
	www.aheckids.com /epid.htm (127 words)

	Epidemiology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The acting epidemiologist works on issues ranging from the practical, such as outbreak investigation, environmental exposure, and health promotion, to the theoretical, including the development of statistical, mathematical, philosophical, biological, and psychosocial theory.
		To this end, epidemiologists employ a range of study designs from the observational to experimental, with the purpose of revealing unbiased relationships between exposures such as nutrition, biological agents, stress, or chemicals to outcomes such as disease, wellness and health indicators.
		Epidemiologists use gathered data and a broad range of biomedical and psychosocial theories in an iterative way to generate or expand theory, to test hypotheses, and to make educated, informed assertions about which relationships are causal, and about exactly how they are causal.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Epidemiology (2351 words)

	Georgia Division of Public Health \| Chemical Hazards Progam
		Epidemiologists have identified certain circumstances that may lead them to suspect a potential common source or mechanism of carcinogenesis.
		Before epidemiologists can accurately assess a suspected cancer cluster, they must determine whether the type of cancer involved is a primary cancer or a cancer that is the result of metastasis (spread from another organ).
		Epidemiologists also try to establish whether the suspected exposure has the potential to cause the reported cancer, based on what is known about that cancer's likely causes and what is known about the carcinogenic potential of the chemical and the type of exposure.
	health.state.ga.us /programs/hazards/factscluster.asp (329 words)

	NurseZone - Feature Stories - Spotlight on nurses - Archive (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Nurse epidemiologists are the front-line troops in the never-ending war against infectious diseases.
		Koopman said that she thinks epidemiologists are clearly winning the fight for awareness and recognition both within the medical community and with the general public.
		It is often the job of nurse epidemiologists to educate physicians, nurses, hospital staffs and the public about how to deal with threats to public health.
	www.nursezone.com.cob-web.org:8888 /stories/SpotlightOnNurses.asp?articleID=10734 (1043 words)

	Epidemiologic Perspectives & Innovations \| Full text \| WINPEPI (PEPI-for-Windows): computer programs for epidemiologists
		PEPI (an acronym for Programs for EPIdemiologists) grew from a set of programs for programmable pocket calculators that was published in 1983 to "make life easier for investigators, extend the use of appropriate analytic methods, and enable researchers to concentrate on substantive issues rather than on procedural technicalities" [1].
		An epidemiologist or student whose data have been stored and maybe processed in another package, and who is well versed in the use of that package, may therefore have no need for the WINPEPI programs, despite their ease of operation, except when these do analyses not done by the other package.
		From the viewpoint of veterinary epidemiologists, a shortcoming of WINPEPI is its use of "person-time" and not "animal-time".
	www.epi-perspectives.com /content/1/1/6 (4221 words)

	Case in a Small Town Compounds a Puzzle for Epidemiologists
		By LAWRENCE K. Epidemiologists investigating the anthrax death yesterday of Otillie W. Lundgren, 94, from Oxford, Conn., are confronting a mystery as baffling as the case of a Bronx woman, Kathy T. Nguyen, who died on Oct. 31 leaving no clue to the source of her infection.
		Now, as epidemiologists talk to her family and friends to learn about her activities and who she encountered over the six weeks before she became ill, they will try to fit what facts they glean into the accepted wisdom about the bacterial infection.
		Lundgren was infected naturally, but that epidemiologists would have to keep an open mind and explore all possibilities.
	www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/Bioter/epidemiologistspuzzle.html (1085 words)

	bmj.com Rapid Responses for Claassen, 329 (7463) 467 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ellen Grant expresses frustration over the mistakes of epidemiologists who “claimed medical benefits of hormone use.” The effects of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), she asserts, have been misinterpreted by epidemiologists “for many obvious reasons.” Perhaps those reasons are too obvious to state, but I would like to see them enumerated anyway.
		It is not obvious to me that the epidemiologists are the villains in the HRT story, nor is it clear that they were the ones who were surprised by the outcome of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI).
		Rather, it was epidemiologists, finicky purists that they are, who looked askance at the apparent benefits of HRT seen in observational studies, insisting that the results could have arisen from selection bias and other vulnerabilities of case-control and cohort studies.
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/eletters/329/7463/467 (887 words)

	CIDRAP >> Improvements in state terrorism preparedness come at a price
		A survey conducted in 2004 by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) shows that states have increased their overall number of epidemiologists by 27% and boosted the percentage of epidemiologists working on terrorism preparedness and emergency response since the federal government vastly increased spending in those areas after 2001.
		The proportion of all epidemiologists assigned to terrorism preparedness programs increased from 9% (123 of 1,366) in 2001 to 16.4% (424 of 2,580) in 2004, the CDC reports.
		The figures were somewhat better for epidemiologists working in terrorism preparedness: 64% had a degree in epidemiology and 16% had other formal training or study, while 20% had none.
	www.cidrap.umn.edu /cidrap/content/bt/bioprep/news/may1205epi.html (715 words)

	CIDRAP >> Epidemiology work force has grown, but not enough, says CDC
		Oct 31, 2003 (CIDRAP News) – State health departments have more than doubled their corps of epidemiologists working on infectious diseases and terrorism preparedness in the past 2 years, but the number is still too low, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
		Surveys showed that epidemiologists working in those areas increased from 366 in 2001 to 848 this year, a 132% increase, the CDC reports in today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
		The survey was conducted by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) shortly before the new federal funds for terrorism and public health emergency preparedness began flowing to the states.
	www.cidrap.umn.edu /cidrap/content/bt/bioprep/news/oct3103epidem.html (698 words)

	Career Rap - Epidemiologist - BioRap
		Epidemiologists study many different diseases, such as cancer and heart disease.
		Epidemiologists are interested in finding risk factors for diseases.
		Epidemiologist helped to find this out when they compared people with lung cancer to other people who didn't have lung cancer.
	www.biorap.org /br6career.html (254 words)

	Practical Handbook for Healthcare Epidemiologists, Second Edition
		Epidemiologists and infection control professionals will be able to successfully develop and improve their knowledge base and practice with the latest information and trends for today's programs.
		Ebbing Lautenbach, MD, MPH, MSCE is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and Senior Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
		He is the Associate Hospital Epidemiologist and Codirector of Antimicrobial Management at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
	www.slackbooks.com /view.asp?SlackCode=16771 (1285 words)

	NurseWeek: Super Sleuths :: Nurse epidemiologists are on the frontlines of mysterious disease outbreaks - assessing ...
		Not all nurse epidemiologists find themselves on a plane at a moment’s notice, but all are detectives tracking diseases—both infectious and noninfectious—assessing trends, looking for causes, and developing interventions on a primary and secondary level.
		Although physician epidemiologists may focus on the pathology of a disease, nurse epidemiologists investigate the community’s habits to see how it spreads and how it can be contained.
		As an environmental epidemiologist, Ernst has studied the effects of a range of events, from air quality in New York after the collapse of the World Trade Center to the effects of the smallpox vaccine.
	www.nurseweek.com /news/features/04-04/sleuths.asp (647 words)

	1st Annual Leadership Conference for Epidemiologists
		Epidemiologists as a group like to work with colleagues from their own and other disciplines, and they are good at it because their training encourages a “big picture” worldview.
		Epidemiologists will be able to successfully work in consortia if there is an opportunity to advance scientific discovery and its application, their careers do not suffer, their universities and places of employment support participation in consortia, and appropriate financial support is available.
		The Cohort Consortium was initiated by NCI in 1999 to establish a network of epidemiologists with existing large cohort studies to study gene-environment interactions and cancer, as well as to foster interactions among epidemiologists, population geneticists, and statisticians to integrate rapid advances in genomic research into large-scale epidemiological studies.
	epi.grants.cancer.gov /Conference/summary.html (12749 words)

	Career Cards - Public Health - Epidemiologist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Epidemiologists are the first to identify a disease as it occurs in a population, then they track the disease as it moves through that population.
		Epidemiologists work for universities/research organizations; federal, state, and local health departments; major health organizations; and large medical corporations.
		Epidemiologists who work in public health must have a master's or doctoral degree.
	www.texashealthcareers.org /epi.htm (218 words)

	History
		In 1970, the first two Regional Epidemiologists were appointed to two health divisions (Kalutara and Kurunegala) on a priority basis.Both these officers had undergone specialized training in epidemiology.
		About this time, it was planned to appoint a Regional Epidemiologists each to cover one or two health divisions on a phased basis.This was based on the availability of twelve-month fellowships under the WHO regular budget for postgraduate training (DPH/MPH with special work in epidemiology).
		With the introduction of Cholera El Tor in late 1973, and the decision to strengthen the epidemiological services in 1974, a Regional Epidemiologist was appointed to cover the two northern health divisions (Jaffna and Vavuniya), while the Colombo health division was covered by an Assistant Epidemiologist from the Epidemiological Unit.
	www.epid.gov.lk /History.htm (598 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| No reason to be cheerful - yet
		Hundreds of thousands of animals are being killed for no more reason than they are on farms adjoining ones where disease has been confirmed, or be cause they are within three kilometres of an outbreak.
		It is possible, say some epidemiologists, that foot and mouth may have gone so far into the national flock that it is now effectively endemic.
		If this is the case, then it will be strongly argued that had we vaccinated or just let the disease run, we would have avoided the costs, the misery, the inconvenience and associated economic hardship and would not have lost our exports for any longer.
	www.guardian.co.uk /footandmouth/story/0,7369,469370,00.html (1070 words)

	Cancer - Cancer Partners - Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
		CSTE accomplishes this by supporting the use of effective public health surveillance and good epidemiologic practice through training, capacity development, and peer consultation, developing standards for practice, and advocating for resources and scientifically based policy.
		CSTE is a professional association of public health epidemiologists in states and territories working together to detect, prevent, and control conditions of public health significance, first organized in the early 1950s in response to the need to have at least one person in each state and territory responsible for public health surveillance.
		Epidemiologists and other public health professionals can use this data to enhance surveillance, generate hypotheses, and serve as reference material as they develop, implement, and evaluate public health efforts.
	www.cdc.gov /CANCER/partners/fp_cste.htm (416 words)

	Capital District E. coli Update - State Health Department and CDC epidemiologists complete case-control study of ...
		Most people who have reported illness since the beginning of the outbreak are primary cases; that is, they attended the Washington County Fair and consumed water or products made with water piped from a contaminated well.
		State Health Department epidemiologists (health professionals who specialize in disease control), along with three representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now have completed a case–control study that confirms earlier environmental and laboratory data pointing to water from well number six as the source of the infection.
		Epidemiologists also conducted a household survey among /nysdoh/communicable_diseases/en/e_coli.htm selected Washington County residents which determined that approximately 14 percent of Washington County residents who attended the fair became ill. A total of 285 households were contacted by telephone.
	www.health.state.ny.us /press/releases/1999/ecoli916.htm (521 words)

	CareerZone
		The college search results are undergraduate programs associated with Epidemiologists.
		The training search results include both short and long-term programs associated with Epidemiologists, and may be more appropriate for adult and non-traditional students.
		During 2002, there were approximately 180 Epidemiologists employed in NY.
	www.nycareerzone.org /graphic/profile.jsp;jsessionid=518271058800732615?onetsoc=19-1041.00 (1050 words)

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