How to Use epidemiology in a Sentence

epidemiology

noun
  • 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 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
  • What has come of this is an appreciation for genome epidemiology.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pescador Jimenez is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the university’s School of Public Health.
    oregonlive, 6 May 2022
  • Thomas McElrath, a maternal-fetal-medicine physician at the hospital and a professor of epidemiology at Harvard, told me that the baseline rate of preeclampsia among these subjects has typically been five to six per cent.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2022
  • In short, the EPA identified the lowest concentration of the chemical that poses a human health risk based on either animal or epidemiology studies.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 June 2022
  • The agency’s latest epidemiology report says there were over 4.1 million cases reported worldwide last week, an 18% increase as compared to the previous week.
    Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 June 2022
  • After all, notes Dr. Seema Shah, medical director of the county’s epidemiology unit, everyone knows by now that many are doing home tests, and those results don’t get reported to health departments.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2022
  • If more virulent and contagious variants appear, epidemiology models will have to change fast.
    Dr. Genevieve Yang, ABC News, 3 June 2022
  • The World Health Organization also signaled its concern, saying that a shift in the epidemiology of the disease in countries where the virus is endemic that has occurred in recent years needs to be investigated.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 19 May 2022
  • This month’s columnist, Tara C. Smith, is a professor of epidemiology and infectious-disease researcher.
    Tara C. Smith, Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But readers interested in the sociology or epidemiology of plagues, or the science of vaccines, should look elsewhere.
    Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023

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