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Medicine · Public Health
This editorial response critically engages with the proposition that epidemiology could be fully automated, arguing instead that the discipline’s reliance on nuanced judgment, context, and ethical considerations makes it unsuitable for wholesale automation. The author, supported by the UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure and the Economic and Social Research Council, contends that while computational tools can assist analysis, they cannot replace the interpretive and methodological expertise of trained epidemiologists. For a public health researcher and laboratory scientist with over 450 publications and a focus on vaccine development, this discussion is directly relevant to ensuring that automated approaches do not undermine the rigor and contextual understanding required in epidemiological study design and interpretation.
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