Ben Goldacre

Yes. I'm a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.

British Writer

Kristen Schaal

I thought I would either be an epidemiologist or a 'Price Is Right' model.

American Actress

Focuses on how diseases pass from person to person or through communities.

Disease Spread

Epidemiologists are highly educated in science, often with advanced degrees.

Expert Profile

Often involved in addressing disease outbreaks and public health emergencies.

Outbreak Response

Studies more than just diseases; includes all factors affecting health outcomes.

Health Influences

Uses statistics and data models to understand health patterns in populations.

Data Analysis

Their research helps shape guidelines to prevent disease and promote health.

Policy Development

 I was on vacation with my family, and in a few weeks we would learn that the virus was spreading easily between people. As an epidemiologist, that's when the alarms went off. At that point, most of my work had been focused on other countries, helping places develop the tools they needed

Jennifer B. Nuzzo: 3...

 But we do not have any ministerial access. And this is very different, right? If you only have limited scientific access, unless the other side's top epidemiologist happens to be the vice president, like in Taiwan's case, they don't always do the storytelling well enough

How digital innovation...

 I worked for four years with the Ministry of Health trying to help them figure out as an epidemiologist what was going on with their HIV epidemics and I traveled a lot and I became completely entranced with the country so much so that a couple of years ago I packed in

Is invisibility the...

 his name is Zhong Nanshan, he's an epidemiologist, he was one of the central figures during SARS 17 years ago. On January 20, he visited Wuhan. And he admitted, for the first time, that human-to-human transmission was possible. Now this was important,

What the world can learn...

 again and again and again I realized that that first moment wasn't the end of something in my childhood that was a fleeting moment of interest it really was the beginning of his lifelong career Hyundai Alex I'm an ecologist and an epidemiologist

Ecologist Sees Rain...

 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 -...

 And let me show you why that is. We have a joke. This is an epidemic curve, and everyone in medicine, I think, ultimately gets to know what it is. But the joke is, an epidemiologist likes to arrive at an epidemic right here

Larry Brilliant: TED...

 Well, one or two brave souls. This is actually a direct quote from an epidemiologist who's been in field of HIV for 15 years, worked on four continents, and you're looking at her. And I am now going to argue

Elizabeth Pisani: Sex,...

 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...

 in the United States. Now, I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist by training. I'm interested in systems and networks and where we can concentrate our resources to do the most good.