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"What do you mean, it was a false positive"?
Check out my latest article, published in The Conversation. I discuss why false positive and false negative tests can happen during...
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Priyanka Gogna
I'm an environmental epidemiology graduate student hoping to spread some knowledge and ideas about my field (and hopefully get people to stop thinking we're skin doctors). It always excites and disappoints me to see epidemiological research in the media, as it is often misinterpreted by the very audience it's intended to help. Here's my modest attempt at beginning to solve that! I will post about epidemiology I see and hear about in the news, as well as general information posts to make epidemiology more accessible.
Please note that the views presented in this blog are my own, and do not necessarily represent those of my colleagues, affiliations, or collaborators.
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Air pollution and COVID-19: Are we sacrificing science for urgency?
I want to preface this blog post by saying I am not an infectious disease epidemiologist, and although I have four years of experience in...
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Radon exposure in your home
Check out my ComPARe Blog guest post on residential radon exposures, and why it's important to test your home! The post summarizes some...
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Air pollution and crime rates: Why people and counties are not the same thing
One of the first things I learned about in epidemiology was the importance of study design. The type of study that is conducted, and the...
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Does coffee consumption lead to migraines?
A few months ago I came across a media article warning me that coffee consumption might lead to migraine headaches. The coffee lover in...
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New “evidence” suggests we don’t need to worry about meat consumption when it comes to our health
For most of us, looking to scientific publications and health news articles is an important way to learn more about foods that are good...
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Meat consumption and colorectal cancer
The last time I talked to someone about what I study, they asked me if meat really causes cancer. Unfortunately, the science is clear:...
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What are the odds?
A common woe of modern day epidemiologists is the interpretation of their work. Epidemiologists write papers on exposure-disease...
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Cancer prevention for Canadians
The ComPARe Study is a national investigation identifying important cancer risk factors in Canada, and how many cancer cases are...
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I’m always reluctant to tell people about what I study in graduate school, especially when I can sense they aren’t interested in a...
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