epidemiologist

epidemiology +‎ -ist

epidemiologist (plural epidemiologists)

1. A scientist (often a medical doctor) who specializes in epidemiology.
   • 2013 January 1, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 1, United States: Sigma Xi, ISSN 0003-0996, OCLC 645082957, page 64:

     In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”