Occupation Atlasepidemiologist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b73c752b-9858-4f53-82de-f3a340cbcae9
epidemiologist
Epidemiologists centre their research on origin and causes for illness eruption in humans. They determine the way in which diseases are spread out and propose risk preventive measures to health policy organisms.
Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
ISCInvestigative · Social · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative7.00
- S Social4.11
- C Conventional3.63
- R Realistic2.82
- E Enterprising2.37
- A Artistic2.19
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Epidemiologists (19-1041.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (45)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply scientific methods
- apply statistical analysis techniques
- biometrics
- communicable diseases
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- epidemiology
- evaluate research activities
- gather experimental data
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mentor individuals
- operate open source software
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- prevent communicable diseases' outbreaks
- preventive medicine
- project management
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- public health
- publish academic research
- report analysis results
- research design
- scientific literature
- scientific research methodology
- speak different languages
- statistics
- synthesise information
- take disease prevention measures
- think abstractly
- write scientific publications
Optional (31)
- SAS language
- advise on legislative acts
- analyse blood samples
- apply blended learning
- archive scientific documentation
- assess environmental impact
- assist in clinical trials
- biological chemistry
- biology
- contribute to practice innovation in health care
- contribute to public health campaigns
- develop communicable disease control policies
- develop scientific research protocols
- develop scientific theories
- develop vaccines
- educate on the prevention of illness
- general medicine
- genomics
- immunology
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- laboratory techniques
- life sciences
- manage clinical risk
- manufacture medicines
- microbiology-bacteriology
- multidisciplinary research
- perform laboratory tests
- professional documentation in health care
- statistical analysis system software
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- virology
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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