The fast-spreading delta variant has flooded hospitals across the South. One of the causes: About 18 percent of Americans age 65 and over, at high risk of hospitalization and death, still aren’t fully vaccinated, versus about 5 percent in the U.K. “That’s a huge difference,” says Jeffrey Morris, PhD.
To understand health and disease today, we need new thinking and novel science —the kind we create when multiple disciplines work together from the ground up. That is why this department has put forward a bold vision in population-health science: a single academic home for biostatistics, epidemiology and informatics.
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