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New report: Shortfall of big city health detectives poses serious threat to public health response

Big Cities Health Coalition

As a kid, I didnt know what an epi was, but my first year of college I took a seminar with medical historian Howard Markel and I was hooked. Big city health departments have the greatest unmet need for epidemiologists in these areas* * Numbers indicate percent increase needed to reach ideal number of epidemiologists in that area.