Joel Fuhrman

The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and processed foods have lower rates of chronic disease and longer lifespans.

American Scientist

Robert T. Bakker

I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.

Jill Lepore

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

American Historian

Epidemiology often involves animals and the environment, not just humans.

Non-human subjects

Epidemiology also studies factors like nutrition and behavior, not just diseases.

Beyond illness

Epidemiology is crucial in public health for planning and policy making.

Public health context

 and this new disease -- three and a half months, we've had it. More science has been done for this disease in this short period of time, but we don't understand fully the epidemiology of the virus, the immune response, what's protective, which is the best animal model. All of that is being worked on by science and at breakneck pace,

The quest for the...

 to think about a problem that's more traditionally part of public health and epidemiology. And I think in that sense, this fits really nicely with this lateral thinking idea. Here I'm really using the tools of one academic discipline to think about problems of another. So we think, first and foremost, AIDS is a policy issue.

Emily Oster: What do we...

 There's just a little bit of it sequenced. There's almost no epidemiology or studies on it. No one would even consider it, because no one had a clue that it could cause respiratory failure. And why is that? Just lore. There's no data -- no data to support whether it causes severe or mild disease.

Joe DeRisi: Hunting the...

 She was unusual too because she continued to work after she got married, after she had kids, and even after she got divorced and was a single parent, she continued her medical work. And she was unusual because she was really interested in a new science, the emerging field of epidemiology,

Dare to disagree PIPE...

 you started at improving tree up triage providing decision support to help really tired nurses not accidentally make a mistake and then all of a sudden you get to real-time public health and epidemiology I'm pretty psyched about what you're doing thanks so much thank

Improving diagnosis in...

 so I'm a doctor but I kind of slipped sideways into research and now I'm an epidemiologist and nobody really knows what epidemiology is epidemiology is the science of how we know in the real world if something is good for you or bad for

Battling bad science -...

 Public Health he has a background in ecology and epidemiology and he investigates the intersection of trends in global environmental change and human health for the past 20 years he's been conducting environmental and public

COVID-19, Humans, and...

 have given back sight to more than two million blind people. Seva got started because we wanted to apply these lessons of surveillance and epidemiology to something which nobody else was looking at as a public health

Larry Brilliant: TED...

 So I'm a doctor, but I kind of slipped sideways into research, and now I'm an epidemiologist. And nobody really knows what epidemiology is. Epidemiology is the science of how we know in the real world

Ben Goldacre: Battling...

 so experienced, particularly in vaccines. In some ways, he has become, taking the broad advice that's the epidemiology advice and explaining it in the right way, where he'll admit,