epidemiology

Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology and prevention at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, former post-doctoral fellow at SickKids, and the study's lead author.

I was going to have a career in teaching research epidemiology.

“In epidemiology, this is called competing risk, which is just another way of saying we have a large number of diseases that compete for our lives,” Olshansky told Salon in a phone interview.

Another is that the claim itself has fomented a surge of attacks on science and scientists that threatens to drive promising researchers out of the crucial field of pandemic epidemiology.

"These biases pervade the field of alcohol epidemiology and can confuse communications about health risks."