{"id":7726,"date":"2015-08-13T05:55:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T04:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=7726"},"modified":"2015-08-13T05:55:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T04:55:27","slug":"any-future-for-epidemiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2015\/08\/any-future-for-epidemiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Any future for epidemiology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/genomics\/2015\/08\/11\/the-future-of-epidemiology\/\">Muin Khoury<\/a>\u00a0summarized recently the few major discoveries of epidemiology, to be exact just one from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bradford_Hill_criteria\">1965<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Epidemiology has contributed to major scientific discoveries such as the relationship between cigarette smoking and common diseases including cancer and heart disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Yet, epidemiologic research continues to attract criticism, including \u201cexcess expense, repudiated findings, studies that offer small incremental knowledge, inability to innovate at reasonable cost, and failure to identify research questions with the greatest merit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the big data era, we can now compute associations of everything with everything &#8211; the most recent trend that is definitely leading into nowhere.\u00a0Nevertheless the\u00a0Precision Medicine Initiative PMI announced by Barack Obama\u00a0will establish now a large longitudinal cohort of a million participants to study genetic and environmental determinants of a wide variety of human diseases.<br \/>\nGiven the fact that all GWAS studies together has not provided any\u00a0useful medical outcome, there must be a strong lobby for the PMI cohort in the CDC, the NCI and the NHLBI and a lot of existing resources that cannot be shut down.<\/p>\n<p>And this is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog-epi.grants.cancer.gov\/2013\/08\/13\/integrative-cancer-epidemiology\/\">how science ends in 2015<\/a>, 50 years later, some nice words with no meaning<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote><p>Leveraging existing infrastructures, including complex data sets and biobanks, by integrating information collected across diverse study designs, methodological approaches, and technology platforms.<br \/>\nForging collaborations across scientific domains (e.g., systems biology, epidemiology, genetics, bioinformatics, clinical sciences, health behavior) by establishing an integrative and transdisciplinary scientific endeavor buttressed in part by the principles of team science.\u00a0Applying the practices of data science (an emerging discipline representing a nexus of statistics, computer science, machine learning, data visualization, informatics, bioinformatics, and computational biology) and knowledge integration to aggregate, synthesize, and interpret the diverse and high-dimensional data accrued through these collaborations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 27.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muin Khoury\u00a0summarized recently the few major discoveries of epidemiology, to be exact just one from 1965 &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 27.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7727,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726\/revisions\/7727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}