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IJE Advance Access originally published online on June 10, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(4):723-724; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi122
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

Editorial

The future role of the IEA

Jorn Olsen

Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, UCLA—Los Angeles, CA, USA. E-mail: jo@ucla.edu

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Epidemiology is an important and well-recognized scientific discipline within health research because epidemiologic research is needed in health planning and disease prevention, as well as in clinical practice. The call for evidence-based treatment and prevention has certainly helped in ‘spreading the gospel of epidemiology’ to borrow the term Cruickshank, one of the founders of the IEA, often used.1

The reasons for the success of epidemiology are, to a large extent, also the threat to epidemiology, at least the threat to epidemiology as an independent and coherent discipline in itself. By far, most epidemiologists have been divided into subgroups classified according to the disease they study (for example, infectious disease or cancer epidemiologists) or the exposure they address (for example air pollution or HIV epidemiologists). Although they conduct epidemiological research they often do not see . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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