Our mission is to advance population medicine through cutting‑edge quantitative research, innovative teaching, and impactful service to better understand, predict, prevent, and control diseases.

Research

We conduct cross-disciplinary research to assess the distribution of determinants of health in populations with the aim of establishing effective and sustainable interventions to promote health and prevent and control diseases. This includes designing unbiased population-based analytical studies and applying, adapting, and developing cutting-edge mechanistic and data-driven methods in diverse areas of One Health. 

Teaching

We prepare all veterinary students to effectively apply population medicine skills in their careers, for example in their work as clinicians, public and animal health professionals, or researchers. In addition, we teach in several elective courses applying population medicine principles that are often more sub-discipline specific. We also provide a foundation for students who seek post-graduate specialty training in epidemiology. We provide interested graduate students and residents with the ability to apply epidemiologic methods to their research. As faculty mentors and graduate advisors for students working in our own research programs, we also prepare a subset of graduate students for a successful research career in epidemiology by training them in advanced epidemiologic methods. We provide MPH students with the core knowledge of epidemiology through contributions to course work, advising, and mentoring. We also prepare selected MPH students to continue with Ph.D. training and a research career in epidemiology. 

Service

We provide consultation on study design, analysis, and application of epidemiologic principles to disease control and prevention for students, faculty, and other professionals both inside and outside the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Several of our faculty have international connections, and all have collaborations that extend beyond the University. Our graduates have taken leading academic, government, and industry positions nationally and abroad.

The epidemiology program in the College of Veterinary Medicine is supported by faculty across the college and co-led by faculty in the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences. Epidemiology faculty collaborate in offering veterinary and graduate course work, graduate student training, and research.