How to Use epidemiology in a Sentence

epidemiology

noun
  • 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
  • The first is that the epidemiology of the disease has been changing.
    — WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Sewage epidemiology has been used in other countries for decades, but not here.
    — Miranda Weiss, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Apr. 2021
  • But nobody had taken an in-depth look at the show's epidemiology.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2018
  • So the choice of the country [for trials] was largely done based on epidemiology.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Some epidemiology experts fear that without these funds, there could be a resurgence of the disease.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • But the fledgling field of genetic epidemiology isn’t so sure.
    — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 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
  • On Twitter, his colleagues in epidemiology and public health seem to agree.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
  • It has been done since John Snow, the founder of epidemiology in the 1800s.
    — Marina Starleaf Riker, ExpressNews.com, 4 June 2020
  • At the heart of epidemiology is a history of violence and conquest.
    — Jim Downs, Time, 2 Sep. 2021
  • One of the lessons from the history of epidemiology is, first of all, there are things that in hindsight seem completely obvious.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 7 July 2020
  • 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
  • Let’s face it, the field of epidemiology hasn’t so far covered itself in glory with regard to the coronavirus crisis.
    — David H. Freedman, Wired, 1 May 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • The lockdowns to stop covid-19 have been a radical departure from the tenets of epidemiology.
    — The Economist, 21 May 2020
  • Hahn and Marlow, who grew up 5 miles apart, are clues to an intriguing fact of political epidemiology.
    — Peter Maass, The Intercept, 7 May 2017
  • The epidemiology – and now the outbreak at Lackland – tell a different story.
    — Katrine L. Wallace, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
  • Supporters of the decision described it as a move toward parental choice rather than a reflection of changing epidemiology.
    — Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
  • But some patients there are reluctant to be tested for measles, limiting abilities to capture the full scale and epidemiology of the outbreak.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025
  • An epidemiology grant, which was supposed to be guaranteed through 2026, was shuttered.
    — Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Across the border in Maine, officials say their disease surveillance and epidemiology teams learned about the cluster in March.
    — Washington Post, 12 May 2021
  • The 24-year-old Thomas, an epidemiology graduate student at Texas, was perplexed.
    — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The shift has also revealed how, too often, public opinion and government policy are out of step with the basic realities of drug use epidemiology.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Enrollment in epidemiology, the study of how diseases spread, jumped 92 percent at UAB.
    — al, 9 June 2021
  • In the first 1,000 fatalities, some patterns have begun to emerge in the outbreak’s epidemiology and its painful human impact.
    — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2020

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