Body: People who study "Epidemics" investigate rapid spread of infectious disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time.
Some reasons we look at "Epidemics" include understand several changes that may occur in an infectious agent that may trigger an epidemic.
Several topics in "Epidemics" include Transmission, Common source outbreak, Response.
A few scholars of "Epidemics" include Meg Zayan, Ann Herring, David Jones.