Section Highlights
- 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).
Current Studies
RESPOND Prostate Cancer Study
We're collaborating with the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, and other institutions across the United States to investigate prostate cancer in African American men.
Studies in the Badr Lab
Faculty member Dr. Hoda Badr and her lab conduct psychosocial interventions to improve the physical and mental wellbeing of participants with cancer and their caregivers. If you or a loved one has been affected by cancer, you might be eligible for one of Dr. Badr's studies.
Chief's Message
View a message from Aaron P. Thrift, Ph.D., Interim Chief, Section of Epidemiology and Population Sciences.
Education
The section offers a Post–Graduate Systems Epidemiology of Cancer Training (SECT) program.
Research
Learn more about the research aims and methods employed in Epidemiology and Population Sciences.
News
Read more about the latest press, studies and collaborations happening in the Section of Epidemiology & Population Sciences.
