epidemiologist
Americannoun
Explanation
An epidemiologist is a scientist or medical professional who specializes patterns of diseases that spread between people. Epidemiologists study things like the causes and treatment of lung disease, for example. If you're interested in public health or communicable illnesses, you might decide to be an epidemiologist one day. An epidemiologist might study the spread of a strain of the flu, or investigate the causes of a measles outbreak. Epidemiologist comes from epidemiology, "the study of epidemics," which has a Greek root: epidemios, "among the people."
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“The holy grail is a tick vaccine,” Lea Hamner, an epidemiologist with a tick-focused program on the island, told an anxious crowd at one of the many public meetings focused on ticks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Phillip Nieburg, a retired pediatrician and epidemiologist, had children at age 44, 49 and 52.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
As an epidemiologist, I simply would not be worried about my kids eating acrylamide .
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
"We're beyond crisis now," says Dr Georgia Richards, an epidemiologist at Kings College London who studies the prevention of future deaths.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The central plateau was his roots as an epidemiologist and a clinician, and a model of how a committed staff on a limited budget could raise the standard of health in the third world.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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