Internet-Based Birth-Cohort Studies: Is This the Future for Epidemiology?

Ridvan Firestone   ^{1 *} , MPH,PhD (Public Health) ;   Soo Cheng   ^{1 *} , PGDip(Public Health) ;   Neil Pearce   ^{1, 2 *} , DSc,PhD ;   Jeroen Douwes   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Franco Merletti   ^{3 *} , MD ;   Costanza Pizzi   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Emanuele Pivetta   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Franca Rusconi   ^{4 *} , MD ;   Lorenzo Richiardi   ^{3 *} , MD, PhD (Epidemiology)

¹ Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand

² Department of Medical Statistics, Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

³ Department of Medical Sciences, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

⁴ Unit of Epidemiology, Meyer Children’s University Hospital, Florence, Italy

*all authors contributed equally