epidemiologists

A propulsive nonfiction look at the elite squads of scientists, doctors, and infectious disease experts who guard the boundary between public health and pandemics and how they gather data via boots on the ground "shoe-leather epidemiology" in order to save lives.

Describes the skills necessary to pursue a career as an epidemiologist, and examines the type of work they do.

Discusses careers as infectious disease specialists, including education, training, specialties, and salaries.

Describes the skills necessary to pursue a career as an epidemiologist, and examines the type of work they do.

The author chronicles his thirty years working with hemorrhagic fevers and other viruses that infect man, and offers an overview, from his personal perspective, of what the real threats are from emerging viruses.

Explores the history of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, which was organized in 1951 to battle various diseases, including polio, cholera, and smallpox, and continues to eliminate diseases that threaten the population in the twenty-first century.

Follows an epidemiologist through a day at work at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.

A personal account of the work of Joseph McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch, a husband and wife team who have been in the forefront of research into the causes and treatment of deadly viruses, traveling the world in the course of their investigations of diseases like Ebola, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, and HIV.

Presents biographical profiles of six medical researchers who have made significant contributions to epidemiology, including John Snow, Louis Pasteur, Walter Reed, Alice Hamilton, C. J. Peters, and Mary-Claire King.