Epidemiology Author: Leon Gordis MD, MPH, Dr.PH Summary: Based on his 30 years’ experience in teaching introductory epidemiology Dr. Gordis produced this book. It explains the epidemiologic approach to disease and intervention explores the use of epidemiologic principles to identify the cause of disease and discusses how epidemiology should be used to improve evaluation and […]
Pathologists Can and Should Engage in Global Health
With the completion of Step 1 and the start of my clinical rotations in less than two weeks, I have recently been devoting more time to considerations of my professional future. For much of my preclinical years my driving interests within medicine have been tripartite; hematology/oncology, infectious disease, and pathology. Any future I see in […]
Voices From the Ground
The distance between the halls of government or the ivory tower and the situation on the ground frequently obscures the voices of the communities and people nominally being helped. All global health work is ultimately local however making monolithic top down approaches an unsustainable paradigm. A major hurdle in developing more community-based approaches is a […]
