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Epidemiologist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.”"

  2. 2
    a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases wordnet

Etymology

From epidemiology + -ist.

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