About us
The People's Epidemiologic Library is an initiative of Alfredo Morabia, of the Mailman School of Public Health and Queens College, City University of New York, USA, and Jan P Vandenbroucke of Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Since its establishment in 2009, the aim of this virtual library has been to bring together documents and essays about the development of epidemiologic methods over the ages. The initial sources were the references and essays of Alfredo Morabia's book, “A History of Epidemiologic Methods and Concepts”. However, the material was greatly enriched by additional individual entries as well as permission grants to link and copy several existing resources:
• the “Reprints and Reflections” and “Debates and Controversies” sections from the International Journal of Epidemiology
• the “VOICES” section from Epidemiology
• the introductions from the book, “Evolution of Epidemiologic Ideas,” edited by Sander Greenland.
• a number of key biographies
• scanned content pages of notable textbooks
Our aim is to provide a resource for all purposes. This includes supplying as many important papers on the history of epidemiologic methods as possible, either in the form of pdfs or links, and to add commentaries by leading epidemiologists.
The idea for this library grew through deliberations among editors of the James Lind Library (Editor: Sir Iain Chalmers). Like this site, the JLL is a virtual library, but is singularly devoted to the history of fair tests of treatment. The JLL grew from the website, "Controled Clinical Trials in History," founded in 1998. It has both an academic and a public outlook. The People's Epidemiologic Library, first and foremost, seeks to build a strong academic backbone, and has the potential to grow into an invaluable resource for the general public. The JLL and the PEL are sibling websites and their editors collaborate.
(CC) All material specifically written for the People's Epidemiology Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License . For all other material (e.g., pdfs, links to pdfs, scans), we trust that our visitors will use the material to support research and teaching, and not for commercial purposes. |
