While humans evolved to perform routine endurance activity, recent secular trends in the United States and globally have resulted in a dramatic rise in the amount of time spent inactive in both ...

Our major research projects advance evidence on chronic disease, environmental exposures, public health surveillance, and substance use to inform policy and improve population health.

Translational modelling has emerged as a critical approach in environmental health and pharmacology, offering new pathways to predict human health risks ...

Being more physically active, following a balanced diet, not smoking, and keeping body weight and blood pressure under control: the same habits that protect the heart also prove decisive after a ...

MIT researchers have developed a method that generates more accurate uncertainty measures for certain types of estimation.

ABSTRACT: Infectious diseases such as bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic diseases continue to have a significant impact on global health. Hence, knowledge on how infection spread, population ...