Biomaterial Database

Careers in Infectious Diseases: Public Health. 2017

Arjun Srinivasan

Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.

Public health offers infectious disease physicians a variety of rewarding career options. Our training and skills make us well suited to a variety of roles in public health. This article summarizes some of the options for careers in public health and describes why ID physicians are so well suited to them.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D010820	Physicians	Individuals licensed to practice medicine.	Physician
D011634	Public Health	Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.	Community Health,Environment, Preventive Medicine & Public Health,Environment, Preventive Medicine and Public Health,Health, Community,Health, Public
D002321	Career Choice	Selection of a type of occupation or profession.	Career Choices,Choice, Career,Choices, Career
D004813	Epidemiology	Field concerned with the determination of causes, incidence, and characteristic behavior of disease outbreaks affecting human populations. It includes the interrelationships of host, agent, and environment as related to the distribution and control of disease.	Social Epidemiology,Epidemiologies, Social,Epidemiology, Social,Social Epidemiologies
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000078329	Workforce	The number of people working or available for work or service.	Human Resources,Labor Supply,Manpower,Staffing,Womanpower,Human Resource,Labor Supplies,Manpowers,Staffings,Supply, Labor,Womanpowers,Workforces
D014481	United States	A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
D055552	Infectious Disease Medicine	A branch of internal medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of INFECTIOUS DISEASES.	Infectious Diseases Specialty,Infectious Disease Specialty,Disease Medicine, Infectious,Diseases Specialty, Infectious,Infectious Disease Specialties,Infectious Diseases Specialties,Medicine, Infectious Disease,Specialties, Infectious Disease,Specialties, Infectious Diseases,Specialty, Infectious Disease,Specialty, Infectious Diseases