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Careers in Public Health Choosing a Career While many people begin their public health careers directly out of college, others come into the field with prior professional training and expertise. The list of public health careers is long and varied, but some examples include physician, public health nurse, epidemiologist, statistician, health educator, sanitarian, microbiologist, behavioral scientist and researcher."When you choose public health, you do not quit being a nutritionist, or a social worker, or a pharmacist, or a physician or a nurse. Your commitment to caring for people is still paramount—you simply are applying it to broader populations instead of individual patients."  Advancing Healthy Populations:The Pfizer Guide to Careers in Public Health (this book can be downloaded as a PDF at www.pfizercareerguides.com) "This guide inspires pursuit of work in public health and provides a practical resource for making the most of potential opportunities across a broad range of career choices. Critical topics include: health policy and management; epidemiology; oral health; family health; environmental health; public health preparedness; international and global health; and more. In all, this guide offers 33 information-packed chapters featuring practice experiences and thoughtful essays by leaders in many areas of the public health field..." Other Resources
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