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

Big Cities Health Coalition

The paucity of injury and violence prevention epidemiologists is especially striking, as unintentional injury is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Im in our Communicable Disease Epidemiology & Immunization Section in our Analytics & Informatics Branch, where I focus on respiratory viruses.