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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. My favorite was Laurie Garretts 700-plus-page book, The Coming Plague I read it when I was 11 or 12 years old. I didn’t know what an epi was at the time.