Critical appraisal is the backbone of evidence-based practice, helping clinicians, researchers, and students separate trustworthy studies from flawed ones. From understanding epidemiological study ...

Understanding epidemiological and clinical study designs is key to producing reliable health evidence. From descriptive reports to randomized trials, each design has unique strengths and limitations.

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine researchers Vanessa Xanthakis, PhD, FAHA, associate professor of ...

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers flooded journals with studies about the then-novel coronavirus. Many publications streamlined the peer-review process for COVID-19 papers while keeping ...

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A new study published in Addiction has identified genetic factors that influence both a person's risk of developing an addiction and their educational attainment. Researchers found that some genetic ...

For those not familiar with the term, a “meta-analysis” is a quantitative, formal, epidemiological study design used to systematically assess the results of previous research to derive conclusions ...

All faculty in the Department of Epidemiology have research backgrounds, and many have public health practice experience. Research and practice are done in all major areas of epidemiology, including ...