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Careers in Public Health
Articles found here will give your students a sense of the daily life of practicing
disease detectives and highlight the range of careers associated with
public health sciences and epidemiology. We hope these articles will inspire
students to pursue a career
in public health.
Articles
Public
Health on Front Burner After Sept. 11
USA Today, Anita Manning
USA's
'Disease Detectives' Track Epidemics Worldwide
USA Today, Anita Manning
Tracking
Down Bugs
Bangor Daily News, Tom Weber
CDC
Disease Fighters Go Where Virus Action Is
Atlanta Journal Constitution, Patricia Guthrie
When
Disease Strikes, the Doctor is In
The Des Moines Register, Tom Carney
Federal Web Sites
Profiles of Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/eis/about/profiles.htm
Life Works
National Institutes of Health
http://science.education.nih.gov/LifeWorks.nsf/index.htm
Non-Federal Web Sites*
* Links to
non-Federal organizations are provided solely as a service to our users. Links
do not constitute an endorsement of any organization by CDC or the Federal
Government, and none should be inferred. The CDC is not responsible for the
content of the individual organization Web pages found at these links.
American Public Health Association
http://www.apha.org/
Association of Schools of Public Health
http://www.asph.org/
John
Snow: A legendary figure in the history of public health, epidemiology
and anesthesiology
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html
S. Khan,
Disease Detective (an interview)
American Society of Microbiology
http://www.microbe.org/careers/Khan.asp
Adventures
with Bats in Cambodia
University of Georgia, Leilani Alvarez Kostiuchenko
http://www.vet.uga.edu/vpp/ia/Students/la/
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