The New snippets from the past and a new section about epidemiology in history

摘要

My task in the American Journal of Epidemiology (AJE) will be 2-fold. I will continue the regular publication of "Snippets From the Past," a section that George Comstock originally carried out between 1991 and 2005, and I will orchestrate the management, peer review, and eventual publication in AJE of invited and unsolicited papers for a new section of the Journal entitled "Epidemiology in History." I have the great honor of continuing George W. Com-stock's "Snippets From the Past." Dr. Comstock published a total of 14 of these articles over 15 years (1-14). His idea was to publish 1 article per year that comprised a summary of the content from an archived volume of the American Journal of Hygiene (AJH), which became AJE in 1965 (15). In accordance with the subtitle of the section, "Seventy Years Ago in the Journal," he went back 70 years to find his content (to 1921 for 1991, 1922 for 1992, and so on). Dr. Comstock was able to cover the period of 1921 to 1934, discussing some specific papers more in detail, regularly commenting on the length of the papers and on the number of female authors, and reporting personal anecdotes.