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One of the website's editors, social epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed, received media attention from ABC News Radio when he wrote an open letter to NBA player LeBron James saying his promotion of Coca-Cola and McDonald's in commercials that were targeted largely toward his young fans was contributing to the problem of childhood obesity.

Archibald Cochrane

Archie Cochrane (1909–1988), British epidemiologist; namesake of the Cochrane Collaboration

Australian Legends

2002 – Medical Scientists, haematologist Professor Donald Metcalf, microbiologist Professor Nancy Millis, immunologists Professor Sir Gustav Nossal and Professor Peter C. Doherty, and epidemiologist and public health researcher Professor Fiona Stanley

Carla Obermeyer

Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer is an American medical anthropologist and epidemiologist.

Corrupted Blood incident

In March 2007, Ran D Balicer, an epidemiologist physician at the Ben-Gurion University in Israel, published an article in the journal Epidemiology describing the similarities between this outbreak and the recent SARS and avian influenza outbreaks.

David Duncan

David F. Duncan (born 1947), epidemiologist and expert on drug abuse

George Comstock

George W. Comstock (1915–2007), American public health physician, epidemiologist and educator

Gio Batta Gori

Gio Batta Gori is an epidemiologist and fellow with the Health Policy Center in Bethesda, Maryland where he specializes in risk assessment and scientific research.

Luigi Frari

His uncle Angelo Antonio Frari was Chief Municipal Physician of Split, famous epidemiologist, historian of medicine and the protomedicus of Venice, whose son Michele Carlo Frari was an illustrious professor of obstetrics at Padua University.

Merchants of Doubt

David Michaels’s Doubt is their Product (2008), Chris Mooney’s The Republican War on Science (2009), David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz’s Deceit and Denial (2002), and his own book Cancer Wars (1995).

Miguel Angel Martínez

Miguel Ángel Martínez-González (born 1957), Spanish physician, epidemiologist, and nutrition researcher

MS Explorer of the Seas

Due to the number of passengers sick, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent a Sanitation Program Officer and an epidemiologist to the ship on Sunday, January 26, 2014, when it was docked in St. Thomas.

Nicholas Day

Nick Day (born 1939), British statistician and cancer epidemiologist

Richard Peto

His brother Julian Peto, with whom he has published work in mathematical statistics (e.g. on logrank test), is also a distinguished epidemiologist.

Robert W. McCollum

(January 29, 1925 – September 13, 2010) was an American virologist and epidemiologist who made pioneering studies into the nature and spread of polio, hepatitis and mononucleosis while at the Yale School of Medicine, after which he served for nearly a decade as Dean of the Dartmouth Medical School.

Thomas Francis

Thomas Francis, Jr. (1900–1969), American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist

Trogia

A team led by Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist Zeng Guang suggests that the element barium, present in local foods and contaminated water, may increase the toxicity of the Trogia mushroom.

Wulsin

Victoria Wells Wulsin, American epidemiologist and Democratic political candidate


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