David A. Savitz, Ph.D. Joining us from Brown University

The public's interest and responsiveness to epidemiologic findings has many advantages for the discipline and for public health but also poses challenges to managing expectations. The ways in which epidemiology's home in the real world affects the discipline will be discussed, along with revisiting the relationship of epidemiology to public health policy and practice. A detailed case study from a National Research Council committee that was formed to address health effects of contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina illustrates the complexity that arises when epidemiology intersects with a range of interested parties.

Sponsored by Department of Epidemiology
Contact Information: Stacy Babcock (babcockk@umich.edu)