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With
respect to the main activities of
our department faculty, staff, and
trainees, we concern ourselves with
work in three primary domains:
research and scholarship; education
and research training; outreach
activities.
Within the domain of research and
scholarship, our department strives to
produce definitive evidence that ultimately
will yield improvements in the health of the
public, not only in Michigan, but also in
the U.S. generally and globally. Our faculty
also strives to improve biostatistical and
epidemiological methods required to produce
increasingly definitive evidence about
matters of public health significance.
In the domain of
education and instruction, we strive to
educate our masters and doctoral research trainees
to be leaders and experts in epidemiology and
biostatistics. Embedded within the primary care and
patient-oriented College of Human Medicine, we also
aim to educate our medical students in the concepts,
principles, and methods of evidence-based medicine.
In the domain of
outreach activities, the work of
our department has an international, national, and
statewide impact on public health practice. Our
international impact is mediated via collaborations
with the World Health Organization, the Pan American
Health Organization, and the Organization of
American States. Our national and state-level impact
is mediated not only through governmental
organizations (e.g. the Michigan Department of
Community Health), but also through non-governmental
organizations whose goals are disease-specific
(e.g., United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan).
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