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Second wave of advancements in epidemiology.

1950s

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The first wave came with the development of germ theory in the 1880s. In the 1950s, epidemiology as a field begins to look at environmental risk factors leading to disease. This is a moving away from essentializing disease based on race, gender, and other identities, and instead seeks to expand research to include environmental and social factors.