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Emerging Themes in Epidemiology is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that aims to promote debate and discussion on practical and theoretical aspects of epidemiology. Combining statistical approaches with an understanding of the biology of disease, epidemiologists seek to elucidate the social, environmental and host factors related to adverse health outcomes. Although research findings from epidemiologic studies abound in traditional public health journals, little publication space is devoted to discussion of the practical and theoretical concepts that underpin them. Because of its immediate impact on public health, an openly accessible forum is needed in the field of epidemiology to foster such discussion.

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology welcomes submissions from all public health professionals on any subject related to epidemiology. This includes articles from related disciplines that have implications for the conduct of epidemiologic research. In particular the journal encourages articles that introduce methodological and technological advances for the collection and analysis of epidemiological data. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

• novel study designs
• novel applications of statistical or mathematical frameworks
• statistical methods to account for error in epidemiologic studies
• molecular epidemiology, genetic epidemiology and bioinformatics
• applications of new technologies in the field
• ethics in epidemiological research and public health practice
• causal inference and epistemology in epidemiology
• historical articles and re-assessments of classic papers
• introduction of relevant concepts from other disciplines into epidemiologic research frameworks

Also welcome are more discursive pieces that comment critically on epidemiologic practice and present new concepts or theoretical frameworks, whether in general or within a specific speciality. The journal will also consider comprehensive descriptions of study methods - such as those of complex trials or interventions - that require a level of detail not easily accommodated by other journals, but which have implications for future design and conduct of such studies.

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