Expanding our understanding of the distribution and determinants of disease
Building Tomorrow
We foster the development of independent investigators in areas such as the molecular and nutritional epidemiology of cancer and other chronic diseases.
Changing Lives
Our mission is to improve human health through research that expands our understanding of disease.
Getting Answers
Our population-based studies will provide answers to critical questions about the prevention of cancer and other diseases.

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 Epidemiology Grand Rounds

  

 Hormonal Factors and Lung Cancer Risk and Survival in Nonsmoking Women

Gong Yang, M.D., MPH
Research Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology 

 2525 West End Avenue
6th Floor Board Room

May 28, 2013
12:00 pm
 

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Welcome

The Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center is committed to conducting research to enhance and expand our understanding of the distribution and determinants of disease, to promoting collaboration aimed at the translation of research into cost-effective strategies of disease prevention and health care delivery, and to training independent investigators in epidemiology research and disease prevention.

Our faculty share a broad interest in the research of genetics, nutrition, and other environmental factors.  Current research areas include epidemiology of cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, infectious diseases, and reproductive outcomes. Center investigators direct over two dozen NIH-funded research projects including three large population-based prospective cohort studies with over 225,000 study participants. Other ongoing studies include multiple large case-control studies of cancer and follow-up studies of breast cancer and childhood cancer survivors, which are evaluating various risk factors and biomarkers, including gene-environment interactions.

The center has considerable strengths in international epidemiologic research and training and has close ties with multiple domestic and international institutions, furthering our mission to improve the health of human beings.