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Epidemiologists study the distribution and determinants of disease in human populations — designing studies that reveal why outbreaks spread, who is at highest risk, and which interventions actually reduce disease burden. In India, three primary lanes exist: (1) Government and ICMR research at institutes like the National Institute of Epidemiology (NIE) Chennai, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Delhi, ICMR-NIRT, and NCMH — the institutional spine of India's national disease-surveillance and disease-burden research; (2) International agencies and NGOs — WHO India, UNICEF, CDC India, BMGF, USAID, PATH, and MSF employ epidemiologists for outbreak response, programme evaluation, and health-metric studies; (3) Academic and pharmaceutical research — AIIMS, PHFI, IIPS Mumbai, and CROs running Phase III / IV real-world evidence studies. The definitive Indian training routes are an MPH with epidemiology specialisation (PHFI, AIIMS, NIE Chennai, Sri Ramachandra) or MD Community Medicine (NEET-PG), supplemented by the FETP India (Field Epidemiology Training Programme) fellowship for hands-on surveillance skills. Epidemiologists are not biostatisticians: the core identity is study design and causal inference — deciding what to measure and why — while biostatisticians execute the statistical analysis plan once the design is set.