epidemiologist

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Etymology

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From epidemiology +‎ -ist.

Noun

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epidemiologist (plural epidemiologists)

  1. (epidemiology) A scientist (often a medical doctor) who specializes in epidemiology.
    • 2013 January, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 1, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 February 2017, page 64:
      In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”
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