How to Use epidemiology in a Sentence

epidemiology

noun
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  • 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
  • So the choice of the country [for trials] was largely done based on epidemiology.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Sewage epidemiology has been used in other countries for decades, but not here.
    — Miranda Weiss, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 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
  • Biobot is a company that specializes in wastewater epidemiology, or the study of sewage for the purpose of tracking the spread of disease.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Imagine, the entire world of epidemiology and science has been studying and been aware of this threat to mankind for generations.
    — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The officials stated the first case was reported back on June 1, and as of Aug. 5, 82 cases have been reported to the epidemiology team.
    — Fox News, 8 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • Enrollment in epidemiology, the study of how diseases spread, jumped 92 percent at UAB.
    — al, 9 June 2021
  • 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
  • Across the border in Maine, officials say their disease surveillance and epidemiology teams learned about the cluster in March.
    — Washington Post, 12 May 2021
  • 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
  • The 24-year-old Thomas, an epidemiology graduate student at Texas, was perplexed.
    — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • They may not be trained in epidemiology, but the principles of data science and analytics can easily be applied to the field.
    — Tom Davenport, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • In 1980, the CDC established its first overseas epidemiology program in a suburb of Bangkok, training a new cadre of disease detectives.
    — David Willman, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2020
  • These are dilemmas the courts, filled with judges and lawyers who have never studied epidemiology, will eventually decide.
    — Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
  • Since the spring, a group of experts led by Michael Mina, an epidemiology professor at Harvard, has called for the government to freely distribute tens of millions of 15-minute coronavirus tests a day.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • But with vaccines available, the process of getting everyone back on campus was looking smoother—for reasons that, in her view, had more to do with psychology than with epidemiology.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 10 May 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
  • The state is in the early stages of conducting an investigation to understand those linkages, and has requested additional epidemiology support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
    — Megan Molteni Reprints, STAT, 22 July 2024

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