title: Epidemiology as a liberal art: from graduate school to middle school, an unfulfilled agenda.
abstract: Calls by Lilienfeld, Fraser, and others some three decades ago to introduce epidemiology into undergraduate college education remain largely unfulfilled. Consideration of epidemiology as a "liberal art" has also led to exploring possibilities for introducing epidemiology into early education: to high and even middle schools. Adding epidemiology to school curricula should help educate the public to understand science-based evidence concerning the causes and treatments of disease, help inoculate them against a tsunami of biased and fraudulent media messaging, and permit advancing postgraduate education in epidemiology to even higher levels of scholarship.
authors: Yale Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT; Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Electronic address: michael.bracken@yale.edu.
authors: Michael B
authors: MB
authors: Bracken
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004813:Epidemiology / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health / Q000193:education*; D012574:Schools; D014495:Universities
keywords: Curricula; Education; Epidemiology; Public health; Teaching