Advice from the Professional Epidemiologist
Peer review is supposed to make science better. A manuscript is submitted. Experts examine the methods, results and interpretation. They...
A paper is ready for submission. The analysis is done. The manuscript is written. The author list is almost final...
Autumn does not begin when the calendar says September. From an epidemiological perspective, preparation starts earlier. Influenza surveillance needs to...
The temperature drops. The headlines move on. But for epidemiologists, the work is only beginning. A heatwave can leave behind...
Summer changes epidemiology. Not because diseases follow the calendar, but because our behaviour and environment do. People travel more. We...
A summer of extreme heat does more than push temperatures upward. It puts public health systems under pressure. During prolonged...
Submitting a manuscript is exciting. But many papers encounter avoidable problems before reviewers even begin evaluating the scientific question. Here...
“Last year they said one thing. Now they’re saying something different.” It’s a comment we hear whenever a health recommendation...
Ice cream sales increase. Drowning deaths also increase. Does eating ice cream increase the risk of drowning? Of course not...