Investigate and describe the determinants and distribution of disease, disability, and other health outcomes and develop the means for prevention and control.

Other names for Epidemiologists: Chronic Disease Epidemiologist, Clinical Epidemiologist, Clinical Laboratory Scientist, Clinical Researcher, Communicable Disease Specialist, Environmental Epidemiologist, Epidemiologist, Epidemiologist Advanced, Epidemiology Investigator, Epidemiology Professor, Histopathologist, Infection Control Nurse, Infection Control Practitioner (ICP), Infectious Disease Epidemiology Director, Injury Epidemiologist, Malariologist, Maternal and Child Health Epidemiologist, Medical Epidemiologist, Microbiologist Public Health, Nurse Epidemiologist, Pharmacoepidemiologist, Public Health Epidemiologist, Research Epidemiologist, State Epidemiologist, Trauma Epidemiologist, Veterinary Epidemiologist,

• 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 or scientific studies or surveys.
• Teach principles of medicine and medical and laboratory procedures to physicians, residents, students, and technicians.
• Standardize drug dosages, methods of immunization, and procedures for manufacture of drugs and medicinal compounds.
• Prepare and analyze samples to study effects of drugs, gases, pesticides, or microorganisms on cell structure and tissue.

• Desktop computers
• Notebook computers
• Personal computers

Word processing software

Spreadsheet software

Data base user interface and query software

Data mining software

Analytical or scientific software

Internet browser software

Map creation software