Who is to be included in the Public Health Communicable Disease role?
Occupations in which employees collect, investigate, describe and analyze the distribution and determinants of disease, disability, and other health outcomes, and develop the means for their prevention and control; investigates, describes and analyzes the efficacy of programs and interventions, advising local health departments and the health care community on outbreak investigations, immunization data, disease identification, reporting, and prevention. Includes individuals specifically trained as epidemiologists, and those trained in other disciplines (e.g., medicine, nursing, environmental health, veterinary medicine) working as epidemiologists under job titles such as nurse epidemiologist.
