Description
Apply preventive medicine and public health expertise to promote health and reduce risks for individuals and communities. Provide population-based and clinical prevention services, including risk assessment, screening, counseling, and management, to prevent disease, injury, disability, and premature death.
- • Train medical and public health staff on preventive medicine practices.
- • Document and review comprehensive patient histories with emphasis on occupational and environmental risks.
- • Prepare preventive health reports with problem analyses and recommendations.
- • Supervise or coordinate physicians, nurses, analysts, and other staff as needed.
- • Deliver presentations to professional and community audiences.
- • Evaluate the effectiveness of risk reduction measures and other interventions.
- • Identify populations at risk for preventable diseases or injuries.
- • Design or use surveillance tools, such as screening protocols, lab reports, and vital records, to identify health risks.
- • Lead public health education initiatives on preventable diseases, injuries, nutrition, sanitation, water safety, waste disposal, vector control, and immunizations.
- • Conduct epidemiologic investigations of acute and chronic diseases.
- • Develop and implement interventions to address behavioral determinants of disease.
- • Direct or manage prevention programs in areas such as occupational, infectious disease, aerospace, or environmental medicine.
- • Design, implement, or evaluate health service delivery systems for targeted populations.
- • Coordinate resources across healthcare institutions, social service agencies, and public safety to improve community health.
- • Provide information on health hazards and recommended interventions to the public, media, healthcare professionals, and local, state, or federal authorities.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
