1Toxicology and Molecular Biology Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Morgantown, WV 2Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Morgantown, WV 3Biostatistics and Epidemiology Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National...

Epidemiology Branch, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (Q Xu and H Chen); Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Y Song); Nutritional Epidemiology Branch and Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD (A Blair, A Schatzkin); AARP,...

1Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA 2Department of Sport Sciences with Joint Appointment to Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA 3Biostatistics and Epidemiology Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety a...

D. Michal FREEDMAN*, Alice SIGURDSON, R. Sowmya RAO, Michael HAUPTMANN, Bruce ALEXANDER, Aparna MOHAN, Michele MORIN DOODY and Martha S. LINET Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Biostatistics Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA Division of Environ...

From the Department of Occupational Health (K.W.) and the Department of Occupational Mental Health (Y.S., K.T.), Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health (M.T., Y.A.), Faculty of Medicine, Kitasato University, and the Health Promotion Centre, Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (R.N.), Sagamihara, and the Institute for Science of Labour, Ka...

Clinical epidemiology versus public health epidemiology Epidemiology is growing, and so is the need for developing subspecialties. One subspecialty which has achieved a certain prominence is clinical epidemiology. The term had already been coined in 1938,1 and although it has many different interpretations,2 the growing number of textbooks providing an introduction to the area shows that it has...