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epidemiology

[ep-i-dee-mee-ol-uh-jee, -dem-ee-] / ˌɛp ɪˌdi miˈɒl ə dʒi, -ˌdɛm i- /
NOUN
public health
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Joseph Palamar, a professor at NYU Langone Health who studies drug use epidemiology, said his team examined the websites of more than 200 ketamine providers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

From The Wall Street Journal

"These very intense exposures of particulates have immediate impacts on the lungs," added Anna Hansell, professor of environmental epidemiology at the University of Leicester.

From BBC

A physician specializing in public health and clinical toxicology, and trained in environment epidemiology, carried out the research for EIA and a Congolese environmental group, PremiCongo.

From The Wall Street Journal

The rate of people under 50 being diagnosed with this cancer has risen by roughly a third since the 1990s, Helen Coleman, a cancer epidemiology professor at Queen's University Belfast, told AFP.

From Barron's

"Different types of brain cells play distinct roles in Alzheimer's disease, but how they interact at the molecular level has remained unclear," said Min Zhang, co-corresponding author and professor of epidemiology and biostatistics.

From Science Daily