Penelope Webb is a Principal Research Fellow and Group Leader at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, and Honorary Professor in the School of Public Health, University of Queensland. She taught basic and intermediate epidemiology to public health students across Australia for five years¿and has worked as a visiting scientist at the International Agency for Research on¿Cancer, France, and Harvard University, Massachusetts. She has published more than 290 original research papers in the field of epidemiology.
1. Epidemiology is ...
2. How long is a piece of string? Measuring disease frequency
3. Who, what, where and when? Descriptive epidemiology
4. Healthy research: study designs for public health
5. Why? Linking exposure and disease
6. Heads or tails: the role of chance
7. All that glitters is not gold: the problem of error
8. Muddied waters: the challenge of confounding
9. Reading between the lines: reading and writing epidemiological papers
10. Who sank the boat? Association and causation
11. Assembling the building blocks: reviews and their uses
12. Surveillance: collecting health-related data for epidemiological intelligence and public health action with Martyn Kirk
13. Outbreaks, epidemics and clusters with Martyn Kirk and Adrian Sleigh
14. Prevention: better than cure?
15. Early detection: what benefits at what cost?
16. Epidemiology and the public's health.
