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Emerging Themes in Epidemiology BioMed Central Editorial Open Access The birth of Emerging Themes in Epidemiology: a tale of Valerie, causality and epidemiology Clarence C Tam*1,2,3 Address: 1on behalf of the editorial board of Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 2Deputy Editor, Emerging Themes in Epidemiology and 3Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Department of Infectious Tropical Diseases London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom Email: Clarence C Tam* - clarence.tam@lshtm.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 06 October 2004 Received: 10 June 2004 Accepted: 06 October 2004 Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2004, 1:1 doi:10.1186/1742-7622-1-1 This article is available from: /content/1/1/1 © 2004 Tam; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Emerging Themes in Epidemiology (ETE) is a new, online, Open Access peer-reviewed journal. The Journal is unique in that it was conceived and is managed by research degree students in epidemiology and related public health fields. The Journals management is overseen by its Editor- in-Chief and Associate Faculty Editors, all of whom are senior members of faculty. ETE aims to encourage debate and discussion on the theore