Social epidemiology is a field that examines how social factors influence health outcomes and the distribution of diseases within populations. It focuses on understanding the complex interplay ...
S. Leonard Syme, “the father of social epidemiology” and professor emeritus of public health, died Sunday at the age of 92. Syme served as a professor of public health and was both a founder ...
Students of epidemiology at SLU have gone on to careers in public health departments, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in hospitals and health systems doing infectious disease ...