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#27 - Dr Tom Inglesby on careers and policies that reduce global catastrophic biological risks

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Is It Necessary to Have a Background in Epidemiology?

Having a deep skill set in one of the relevant realms of this broad field is always helpful. There are certainly very successful people who have been able to come into the field by various means without those kinds of backgrounds. Toto, the episode with that, cameron must ask, to what andhard competencies like training an epidemiology a are prerequisite for entering the field. I try to compile alll of those into a list wich, lynx for listenerst to e, good.

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