Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One conversant with epidemiology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person skilled in epidemiology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A scientist (often a medical doctor) who specializes in
epidemiology .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases
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Examples
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Hayden, a chiropractor and epidemiologist, is the lead author of two papers about exercise and back pain in the current issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Like most in Boulder, Ann Marie Bailey, the nurse epidemiologist, is tolerant of the alternative health-care scene; she cedes nonvaccinating parents the right to decide what's best for their children.
Bucking the Herd 2002
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Like most in Boulder, Ann Marie Bailey, the nurse epidemiologist, is tolerant of the alternative health-care scene; she cedes nonvaccinating parents the right to decide what's best for their children.
Bucking the Herd 2002
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"If you are a female, between the ages of 45 and 65, and you notice you are shrinking, that's pretty usual," says Marian Hannan , an epidemiologist at Hebrew Senior Life, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
Yes, You Are Getting Shorter Melinda Beck 2011
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Identifying sick people earlier would have given health officials a huge head start on getting to the source of the problem, said study lead author Dr. Casey Barton Behravesh, an epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Fast response crucial in outbreaks of food-borne illness, study finds 2011
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"The evidence is growing that air pollution can affect the brain," says medical epidemiologist Heather Volk at USC's Keck School of Medicine.
The Hidden Toll of Traffic Jams Robert Lee Hotz 2011
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"There are more and more scientists trying to find whether and why exposure to traffic exhaust can damage the human brain," says medical epidemiologist Jiu-Chiuan Chen at the University of Southern California who is analyzing the effects of traffic pollution on the brain health of 7,500 women in 22 states.
The Hidden Toll of Traffic Jams Robert Lee Hotz 2011
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Kurt Straif, a cancer epidemiologist at the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer who wasn't involved in the latest research, said the study was "important" because it was the first to look at a possible cellphone and brain-cancer link in children.
Study Sees No Cellphone-Cancer Ties Gautam Naik 2011
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"When people say it seems like you see more twins nowadays, they're right," said Joyce Martin , an epidemiologist and co-author of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report .
More U.S. Women Are Having Twins Associated Press 2012
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Identifying sick people earlier would have given health officials a huge head start on getting to the source of the problem, said study lead author Dr. Casey Barton Behravesh, an epidemiologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Fast response crucial in outbreaks of food-borne illness, study finds 2011
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