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Section Highlights
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- Our researchers seek to understand how diseases emerge in populations: Which factors leave individuals at the greatest risk for illness as well as policy changes implemented and how this may promote the health of our community in the future.
- Researchers in the section employ a diverse portfolio of techniques from a variety of medical and scientific disciplines, including: genetics, nutrition, oncology, quantitative biology, and health psychology.
- The community is our patient, and our studies address both personal and public health, informing physicians at the point of care and policymakers.
- The Section’s annual grant funding was $13.1 million; The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) funded $4.8 million.
- CPRIT Training Grant Systems Epidemiology for Cancer Training Program (SECT Program).
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Chief's Message
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View a message from Aaron P. Thrift, Ph.D., Interim Chief, Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences.
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Education
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The section offers a Post–Graduate Systems Epidemiology of Cancer Training (SECT) program.
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Research
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Learn more about the research aims and methods employed in Epidemiology and Population Sciences.
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News
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Read more about the latest press, studies and collaborations happening in the Section of Epidemiology & Population Sciences.
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Participate
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Learn more about studies currently underway at Epidemiology and Population Sciences.
