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epidemiologist - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

epidemiologist (plural epidemiologists)

• (epidemiology) A scientist (often a medical doctor) who specializes in epidemiology.
  • ✤ 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.”¹
  • ✤ “On the inside, it’s absolute chaos,” said one epidemiologist still employed at the CDC.²

Etymology

From epidemiology + -ist.

Pronunciation

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Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 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: ↩

2. 2025 February 23, Meg Tirrell, “‘Deadly consequences’: Health agencies reel from thousands of job cuts while critical research grants remain on hold”, in CNN ‎${}^{[2]}$: ↩

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