Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.
Celebration: William Farr (1807–1883)—an appreciation on the 200th anniversary of his birth
Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.
E-mail: lilienfeld@comcast.net
Accepted 22 March 2007
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If one were to ask a student in an introductory epidemiology course which Victorian epidemiologist most influenced the field's development, there's a good chance the student would say ‘John Snow’. As that student begins collecting surveillance data as part of a doctoral thesis, the odds are good the student will not know who first developed the concept of surveillance. When the student begins analysing those data, there's a likelihood the data will be coded using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), especially if the data concern more than one disease entity. Should the results indicate the need for public health action, the student might contact a local, state or federal public health agency to report the results and advocate for appropriate intervention. Yet, in each of these instances, the influential Victorian epidemiologist who pioneered in the area of the student's actions was William Farr (Figure 1).
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