Citation

Bracken MB. Ann. Epidemiol. 2014; 24(3): 171-173.

Affiliation

Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT; Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Electronic address: michael.bracken@yale.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, American College of Epidemiology, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.annepidem.2013.11.010

PMID

24530409

Abstract

Calls by Lilienfeld, Fraser, and others some three decades ago to introduce epidemiology into undergraduate college education remain largely unfulfilled. Consideration of epidemiology as a "liberal art" has also led to exploring possibilities for introducing epidemiology into early education: to high and even middle schools. Adding epidemiology to school curricula should help educate the public to understand science-based evidence concerning the causes and treatments of disease, help inoculate them against a tsunami of biased and fraudulent media messaging, and permit advancing postgraduate education in epidemiology to even higher levels of scholarship.

Language: en