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The Air Force has a tremendous variety of career fields available to officers —each with unique challenges and rewards. If you know exactly what you're looking for, use the keyword search for a list of job titles and descriptions. Or, if you're interested in seeing what the Air Force has to offer, browse the different career fields in the pull-down menu.
Public Health Officer
Duties and Responsibilities
Public Health officers develop, plan and implement military public health activities, and conduct preventive medicine and communicable disease control, occupational health, food safety and disaster response programs. They establish and maintain liaison with medical treatment facilities and local public health agencies to ensure an integrated public health program, and advise on military public health issues, manning and training.
Public Health officers initiate, direct and conducts preventive medicine and communicable disease control programs, and apply epidemiological and statistical methods to identify and evaluate factors increasing disease morbidity and mortality. They direct public health efforts, advising on issues relating to site selection, field sanitation, disease threats, physical threats such as heat and cold stress, vector and pest hazards, and contamination control procedures. They also provide medical information to members deploying during exercises and contingencies, and monitor disease trends and direct contamination control procedures for patients, medical personnel and medical equipment.
Civilian Opportunities
Public Health Officers
Duties and Responsibilities
Civilian Public Health officers apply preventive medicine and public health knowledge, techniques and skills to minimize the incidence and impact of communicable diseases occupational illnesses and foodborne diseases across a geographical area or community.
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