CCEB: Research Program Overview

Research Program Overview

The CCEB's research objectives are:

to promote clinical epidemiology and biostatistics research, both in the community and health care settings;
to serve as an interdisciplinary resource for clinical research throughout the Medical Center;
to promote a population and community perspective in the Medical Center;
to serve as a leader in disseminating research results and in interpreting research to policy-makers and the public; and
to serve as a regional, national, and international resource for communities, universities, governments, and other organizations seeking guidance about issues of population medicine, public health, and the epidemiology of disease.

The Department's research objectives, working in tandem with the CCEB, are to:

support primary research in biostatistics and epidemiology;
work with the CCEB in providing consultation on issues of study design and statistical analysis for the Medical Center; and
work with the CCEB in facilitating collaborative research involving clinicians, biostatisticians, and non-clinician epidemiologists.

Currently, the CCEB and Department have a large, diverse, active, and self-supporting research program underway. CCEB and Department faculty are engaged in over 200 different active clinical research projects, both hospital-based and community-based, including studies of diagnosis, the economic impact of the medical interventions used to manage disease, as well as the etiology, frequency, prognosis, and treatment of disease.

Research Program Overview

In This Section