In a previous post [scroll down!], I called for the UK [and other countries] to set up new, local centres for Economics and Epidemiology. This is because the economic-epidemiological outlooks are impoverished by the two disciplines - at least at the point of making contact with policy and actual forecasts - are cleaved in two. Epidemiological forecasts have too little economics; macroeconomic forecasts have no epidemiology. The result is public health and economic policymaking that is not on a sure foundation.