peeps of epidemiology

Popper

his work on falsification influenced how epidemiologists formulate hypotheses, focusing on designing studies that could disprove a theory rather than proving it true.

Stiles

made significant contributions to helminthology by discovering the American hookworm and leading public health campaigns to eradicate it.

Jenner

is considered the father of immunology for pioneering the vaccination against smallpox.

Koch

established his postulates, a set of criteria used to determine if a microorganism is the cause of a disease.

Pasteur

work proved the germ theory of disease and led to the development of pasteurization and several vaccines.

Lister

the father of antiseptic surgery, introduced the use of carbolic acid to sterilize instruments and wounds, dramatically reducing post-operative infections.

Snow

is a founder of modern epidemiology for his work during a cholera outbreak, where he used a map to trace the source to a contaminated water pump.

Nightingale

was a key figure in public health who used statistical data, including the polar area diagram, to demonstrate that most soldier deaths were from preventable infections.

Semmelweis

discovered the cause of puerperal fever and proved that handwashing with a chlorinated lime solution could drastically reduce the mortality rate among new mothers.

Petty

is considered a founder of political arithmetic, an early form of statistics, for using data on mortality and disease to make public health recommendations.

Doll

him along with Bradford Hill, conducted a landmark case-control study that established a strong link between smoking and lung cancer.

Hill

is best known for developing the NAME’s criteria for causation, a framework for determining whether a statistical association is likely a causal relationship.

Graunt

is a pioneer of demography and epidemiology for his systematic analysis of the London Bills of Mortality, which was the first use of quantitative data to study population and health trends.