Employment Opportunities
Career in Public Health | Searching for Jobs | Internships/Fellowships
Graduates of the Master of Public Health program use their skills in a wide variety of professions. MPH skills are commonly used to:
- Assess health characteristics and risk factors in populations
- Plan, implement and evaluate an intervention to improve the health of a population
- Incorporate preventive practices into care of individual patients
- Investigate an outbreak of disease or symptoms in a population
- Conduct research and evaluate health outcomes
- Use appropriate data to formulate public health policy
Careers in Public Health
The following are examples of careers in the core areas of public health:
Behavioral Science and Health Education
- Behavioral health scientist
- Health educator
- Health communications specialist
Biostatistics
- Data management director
- Director of clinical trials
- Program evaluation analyst
Environmental/Occupational Health
- State environmentalist
- Federal environmentalist
- Corporate medical director
Epidemiology
- State or local epidemiologist
- Infectious disease director
- Outcomes researcher
Health Policy and Management
- Academic policy advisor
- Legislative policy advisor
- Management policy advisor
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Searching for Jobs in Public Health
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Internships and Fellowships
Students interested in internships and fellowships should search these suggested websites.
