at a North American transplant center Paul Sue, MDCM, FAAP; Nora Pisanic, PhD; Christopher Heaney, MS, PhD; Kenrad Nelson, MD; Kathleen Schwarz, MD; Annette Jackson, PhD; Robert Montgomery, MD; John Ticehurst, MD; Michael Forman, PhD; Alexandra Valsamakis, MD, PhD; Wikrom Karnsakul, MD; Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Epidemiology and E...

1 Instituto de Epidemiología y Salud Comunitaria “Manuel Amunárriz,” Coca, Orellana, Ecuador. 2 Umeå University, Umeå International School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Public Health Science, Public Health and Clinical Medicine, SE-901 85 Umeå, Sweden. Send correspondence to: Miguel San Sebastián, Umeå International School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Public Health Science, Public He...

1 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 2 Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. 3 Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY. 4 Department of Pathology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. 5 Department of Environmental Health Sciences,...

Cities around the world face many environmental health challenges including contamination of air, water and soil, traffic congestion and noise, and poor housing conditions exacerbated by unsustainable urban development and climate change. Integrated assessment of these risks offers opportunities for holistic, low carbon solutions in the urban environment that can bring multiple benefits for pub...

1 IARC, Lyon, France; 2 Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Uomo e dell’Ambiente, Universita’ di Pisa, Pisa, Italy; 3 Institute of Hygiene, Public Health, Health Services and Management, Bucharest, Romania; 4 Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russia; 5 Department of Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland; 6 National Inst...

1 IARC, Lyon, France; 2 Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Uomo e dell’Ambiente, Universita’ di Pisa, Pisa, Italy; 3 Institute of Hygiene, Public Health, Health Services and Management, Bucharest, Romania; 4 Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russia; 5 Department of Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland; 6 National Inst...

Received for publication May 23, 2001, and accepted for publication August 30, 2001. Abbreviations: CASAC, Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee; EPA, US Environmental Protection Agency; PM 10 , standard for coarse particulate matter; PM 2.5 , standard for fine particulate matter. 1 Health Effects Institute, Cambridge, MA. 2 Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, US Environmental Prote...

Many existing cohort studies initially designed to investigate disease risk as a function of environmental exposures have collected genomic data in recent years with the objective of testing for gene-environment interaction (G × E) effects. In environmental epidemiology, interest in G × E arises primarily after a significant effect of the environmental exposure has been documented. Cohort studi...

The Korean Society of Epidemiology publishes a scholarly journal titled 'Korean Journal of Epidemiology', which announces and discusses the results of epidemiological studies from the past 30 yr. Since its first publication in 1979, the journal has contributed to the advancement of epidemiology as well as the prevention and control of disease, and the promotion of health in Korea.In 2009, the e...

Steve Kleeberger and Matt Longnecker step up to serve with me as interim deputy editors in the absence of a full-time permanent editor. Steve and Matt have given generously of their time, expertise, and energy in helping to maintain EHP ’s scientific quality during a time of transition. Given EHP ’s broad scope of coverage, however, we felt the need to likewise broaden the scope of our science ...