The European Journal of Epidemiology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering the epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases and their control.

It is published by Springer Science+Business Media and the editor-in-chief is Albert Hofman (Harvard T.H.

The journal was established in 1985 with Antiono Sanna as founding editor.

He was succeeded by Carlo Chezzi (1992–1994),[2] after which Claude Hannoun took over (1994–2002).

Hannoun changed the direction of the journal, expanding the scope to include population health and non-communicable diseases.