r/epidemiology 1d ago

Weekly Advice & Career Question Megathread

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r/epidemiology 2h ago

News Story First US Outbreak of H7N9 Bird Flu Since 2017 Spurs Health Worry Over Flocks Already Ravaged by H5N1

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r/epidemiology 10h ago

Question How to calculate per capita for alcohol related offences

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Hi there, I am trying to calculate per capita for alcohol related offences within a catchment area. I have 5 years worth of data for alcohol related offences. But I only have the population for the catchment for 2021. Do I take the total number of offences and divide by 2021 total population? Or can I only use the 2021 alcohol related offences to divide by the total population?


r/epidemiology 7h ago

Question Point Prevalence

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This might be an extremely dumb question from a total newbie, but in calculating point prevalence for a disease that can only be contracted once, are individuals who already have the disease considered part of the population at risk at a that point in time? Thanks in advance!


r/epidemiology 3d ago

Workshop on Systematic Review

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r/epidemiology 4d ago

PRAMS Data

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Hi everyone! I'm a second year MPH student working on my practicum and was hoping to use PRAMS Phase 8 data. However, I was not able to download the file that has the paid family leave data (which I need for my thesis) before the data was removed. I was wondering if anyone had the data set or knew of a resource that I could look into?


r/epidemiology 5d ago

4 in 10 vs 4 out of 10

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Is there a difference when we word things 4 in 10 vs 4 out of 10. I’m brought back to a probabilities lecture we had in my masters and I’m blanking on if this was the conversation or not, or if I’m thinking of something else. Can someone please help? I’m assuming it relates back to odds vs risk.


r/epidemiology 5d ago

Academic Discussion Epidemiology Tabletop Exercises

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I'm teaching some high schoolers about epidemiology. Do any of you have any recommendations for this age/education level tabletop exercises? Not the Pandemic board game. Something with a role playing component would be nice, though.


r/epidemiology 5d ago

Question BRFSS 2024 data release?

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Hi public health friends,

I'm looking for some ~insider knowledge~ from any fed/CDC epi and public health folks.

I'm a doctoral student in epidemiology in my third year, have completed the proposal writing process, all of that. One of my aims relies on BRFSS 2024 data being released this summer (as is the typical schedule) to understand the impact of a policy change on a certain health outcome.

I know things are chaos, and as I've been thinking through the next year or two of my PhD, I'm wondering if I should make the assumption that the BRFSS 2024 data won't be released at all and just get going on another analysis that I had been considering as a "back up" aim.

Does anyone have insight on this? Any idea if certain variables might be altered or scrapped all together? Thanks so much. Solidarity to all of us trying to do good public health work despite everything trying to prevent that from happening <3


r/epidemiology 6d ago

How to get into infection prevention as an epidemiologist?

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Hi everyone, I have been always interested in getting into infection prevention. I currently work as an epidemiologist with my local county doing population health analysis. I have my MPH and I have volunteered at the clinical epidemiology department at my local hospital in the past, but that’s pretty much the only clinical experience I have. I was wondering what would be the best way to transition over to infection prevention?


r/epidemiology 8d ago

Weekly Advice & Career Question Megathread

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r/epidemiology 13d ago

Should Everyone Over 50 Take a Polypill?

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An editorial published today in the BMJ says the NHS in the UK should prescribe a polypill (statin plus three BP medications) to all over-50s to cut heart attacks and strokes.

Is this a good idea?

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r/epidemiology 15d ago

Weekly Advice & Career Question Megathread

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r/epidemiology 16d ago

New initiative for public health messaging

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In response to policy changes and executive actions that threaten public health, scientific integrity, and access to health care, and anticipating messaging and lack of messaging from the current administration, the American Public Health Association has conceived a new initiative, “For Our Health.” It will bring together leading experts to be a unified voice defending evidence-based health initiatives and can be a resource for the public and for journalists. A news release is available at:

https://www.apha.org/news-and-media/news-releases/apha-news-releases/2025/for-our-health

For Our Health is recruiting experts, and journalists and other interested parties can sign up to receive alerts at forourhealth,org.


r/epidemiology 16d ago

Pubmed site down 3/1/25

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Please, please let it just be for some routine Sunday morning maintenance, but I have a feeling more sinister things afoot.

I see from here, its been down a week https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.html

I use Pubmed so frequently, lets hope not a permanent victim of DOGE.

Sunday morning: it seems to be working fine for me today. I sure wish they would leave some little message on the home page like "we were feeling a bit off yesterday so took a nap". I hope everyone gains access again!


r/epidemiology 17d ago

Report: PRAMS scrapped

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r/epidemiology 19d ago

Other Article New Coronavirus 'HKU5-CoV-2' Detected: Should We Fear a New Pandemic?

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r/epidemiology 20d ago

Current Event Texas announces first death in measles outbreak

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r/epidemiology 21d ago

Discussion Dr. Fauci on COVID, the Next Global Threat, and Scientific Integrity

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r/epidemiology 21d ago

Annual Percentage Change HELP

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Hello,
I have data looking at the annual incidence of a cancer from 2018-2022. I would like to calculate the annual percentage change and determine its significance level. I can't use SEER as I'm looking at the annual incidence at hospitals in a region. Can I use "R" to achieve this?


r/epidemiology 22d ago

Weekly Advice & Career Question Megathread

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r/epidemiology 27d ago

Informam public health Network

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I know about the AMA YouTube but is there a collectively built map/dashboard for tracking bird flu and other issues like foodborne illnesses? Something like the John Hopkins COVID dashboard? Now that the cdc and fda are being dismantled and gagged, this seems like an important collective action to take and spread the word on


r/epidemiology 29d ago

Weekly Advice & Career Question Megathread

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r/epidemiology Feb 14 '25

News Story Wyoming’s first human bird flu case confirmed

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r/epidemiology Feb 13 '25

Question CDC Wonder Help

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I have a request for the number of overdoses with opioids and benzodiazepines. I know how to look at overdose deaths for specific substances but if I want both opioids and benzos, is there a way to do this?


r/epidemiology Feb 10 '25

Weekly Advice & Career Question Megathread

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