How to Use epidemiology in a Sentence

epidemiology

noun
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  • The 24-year-old Thomas, an epidemiology graduate student at Texas, was perplexed.
    — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The proclamation exempts those working in fields that don’t contribute to that strategy—but apparently epidemiology is not among them.
    — Dennis Normile, Science | AAAS, 27 July 2021
  • Virology and epidemiology can give people an estimate of how risky something is, but can't tell people how much risk is too much, or which mitigation measures impose too much burden.
    — Faye Flam Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune, 8 July 2021
  • The first is that the epidemiology of the disease has been changing.
    — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The joy of my son’s birth had set me on the path to childbirth activism and epidemiology.
    — Hilda Bastian, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2022
  • But at the same time, her training, which includes a doctorate in epidemiology, can’t help but draw her to the trends.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
  • But because both the disease and its epidemiology are so complex, those results may take years, or even decades, to become clear.
    — Usha Lee McFarling, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2021
  • At the heart of epidemiology is a history of violence and conquest.
    — Jim Downs, Time, 2 Sep. 2021
  • On Twitter, his colleagues in epidemiology and public health seem to agree.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • But the fledgling field of genetic epidemiology isn’t so sure.
    — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • The lab is also procuring a sequencer to do variant typing in-house rather than relying on the overtaxed state epidemiology lab.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Conditions such as heart disease, cancer, and the effects of hard labor all leave marks on the human body that provide insights into the epidemiology of disease in the past.
    — Michele R. Buzon, Quartz, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The worst is Scott Atlas, the radiologist whose epidemiology advice Trump came to take.
    — Richard J. Tofel, The Atlantic, 13 May 2022
  • While Wahl was pushing to do more and more soccer stories, Gounder was getting her M.D. and becoming a leading expert in epidemiology.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Ring one included the close contacts of cases identified by the epidemiology team.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 30 July 2022
  • Regan, the epidemiology professor, agreed that the risk level is higher with two doses versus three.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
  • John Snow, a London medical doctor, discovered the source of a cholera epidemic and became the father of epidemiology.
    — Eric Coles, STAT, 16 Oct. 2021
  • In the early 20th century, a small but growing number of scientists began to study measles’ ever-shifting epidemiology around the world.
    — History / Elena Conis, TIME, 29 May 2024
  • What has come of this is an appreciation for genome epidemiology.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Thomas, who grew up in Florence, attended Harvard for her undergrad work, and is now studying epidemiology at the University of Texas, won two medals.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The drug is now the primary agent noted in the pediatric opioid crisis, said Julie Gaither, the study’s author and an assistant professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at Yale.
    — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • The other is Rhonda Jones-Webb, a professor in the school of public health’s division of epidemiology and community health, who was hired in the early 1990s and knows firsthand Hardeman’s journey has not been easy.
    — Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Trans fats have been largely removed from our food in large part because of nutritional epidemiology — but not before we were told that margarine was better than butter.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The problem is simple: Though the public has learned many things about viruses, epidemiology and the human immune system over the past two years, many still seem unwilling to accept that what works for today's facts may not work for tomorrow's.
    — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Jodie McVernon, the director of epidemiology at the Doherty Institute, was the only scientist lauded at the event.
    — New York Times, 15 May 2022
  • There seemed at first to be no connection between them, but an epidemiology field team eventually discovered that a poultry trader had visited both villages a few days before the nurse and the child fell sick.
    — Stephanie Nolen Thomas Cristofoletti, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • Marisa Eisenberg, an associate professor in the University of Michigan's departments of epidemiology and complex systems, predicts the state is in for a doozy of a flu season.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 17 Oct. 2021
  • In fields from economics to epidemiology to foreign policy to technology, the author finds reasons for fear and even panic.
    — Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Wastewater epidemiology has been in use for decades to detect polio in countries where the disease remains endemic, and more recently, to estimate the prevalence of opioid use in U.S. communities.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 22 May 2024
  • These barriers keep people from seeking out a diagnosis and prevent scientists from fully knowing the epidemiology.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2024

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