Description
Investigate and describe the determinants and distribution of disease, disability, or health outcomes. May develop the means for prevention and control.
- • Oversee public health programs, including statistical analysis, health care planning, surveillance systems, and public health improvement.
- • Investigate diseases or parasites to determine cause and risk factors, progress, life cycle, or mode of transmission.
- • Plan and direct studies to investigate human or animal disease, preventive methods, and treatments for disease.
- • Plan, administer and evaluate health safety standards and programs to improve public health, conferring with health department, industry personnel, physicians, and others.
- • Provide expertise in the design, management and evaluation of study protocols and health status questionnaires, sample selection, and analysis.
- • Conduct research to develop methodologies, instrumentation, and procedures for medical application, analyzing data and presenting findings.
- • Consult with and advise physicians, educators, researchers, government health officials and others regarding medical applications of sciences, such as physics, biology, and chemistry.
- • Supervise professional, technical, and clerical personnel.
- • Identify and analyze public health issues related to foodborne parasitic diseases and their impact on public policies, scientific studies, or surveys.
- • Teach principles of medicine and medical and laboratory procedures to physicians, residents, students, and technicians.
- • Prepare and analyze samples to study effects of drugs, gases, pesticides, or microorganisms on cell structure and tissue.
- • Monitor and report incidents of infectious diseases to local and state health agencies.
- • Communicate research findings on various types of diseases to health practitioners, policy makers, and the public.
- • Educate healthcare workers, patients, and the public about infectious and communicable diseases, including disease transmission and prevention.
- • Write articles for publication in professional journals.
- • Write grant applications to fund epidemiologic research.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
