Applied Epidemiology Group

The Applied Epidemiology Group believes that public health is a translational, applied science that focuses on producing relevant and actionable work that will have immediate and long-term effects in affected populations. We focus on practice-based public health, which includes building, maintaining, and evaluating surveillance systems and data, conducting field, environmental, and outbreak investigations, and implementing public health programs and interventions.

The group is based on collaboration between the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. UNMC and DHHS have entered an Academic Health Department Partnership, which is designed to strengthen the links between public health practice and academia.  

These Academic Health Department Partnerships "can serve as sites for joint education, research, and practice, enabling the practice and academic communities to work together to develop the current and future public health workforce, build the evidence base for public health, and better deliver the Essential Public Health Services."