The journal guides epidemiologists, public health investigators, and health professionals (physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists) to what's new and important in epidemiological research, including the latest principles and methods of data analysis. Encouraging contributions that challenge hardened ideas and alert the scientific community to new developments, the journal has recently reported on such topics as mortality among cellular telephone customers; caffeine consumption and spontaneous abortion; and NSAIDs and breast cancer.

該雜志指導流行病學家、公共衛生調查人員和衛生專業人員(醫生、護士、牙醫、藥劑師)了解流行病學研究的最新和重要內容，包括最新的數據分析原則和方法。《科學》雜志最近就手機用戶的死亡率等問題發表了一篇報道，鼓勵那些挑戰僵化觀念、提醒科學界注意新進展的貢獻;咖啡因攝入和自然流產;非甾體抗炎藥和乳腺癌。