Discovering Epidemiology and One Health

Aimed at scientists joining the new epidemiology, this research paper is still draft (but heading towards preprint.)

It is a 6 page paper including diagrams and how-to boxes that introduces scientists to epidemiology. Readers should come away with a sense of where epidemiology came from, why it has proven to be insufficient, and what it has become in 2026. I discovered that epidemiology is really not how it is often presented, not any more, and that the reality is quite exciting.

In order to be credible this paper is carefully referenced and with explanatory appendicies, so while the essential message is 6 or so pages, the rest of it adds up to a lot more. Still, there’s nice graphics and pictures and some extremely beautiful scripts.

For the Rule-based Epidemiology Modellings group I am conducting research with, this is the first step in figuring out why it is we do what we do. The next step is in seeing how our tools are a really very appropriate new method of communication in the new age of epidemiology.

In writing this, I had to learn quite a bit about unusual references in time and script.