Communicable disease specialist vs public health epidemiologist

Differences between communicable disease specialist and public health epidemiologist duties and responsibilities

Communicable disease specialist example responsibilities.

• Manage chronic diseases including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypothyroidism, hyperlipidemia, etc.
• Perform tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS investigations.
• Counsele communicable disease patients concerning risk reduction and behavior modification.
• Obtain the medical records of hospitalize patients with tuberculosis or suspect of having tuberculosis.
• Gain experience in diagnosing and treating people with upper respiratory illnesses, musculoskeletal conditions, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.
• Conduct and document outreach activities to evaluate immunization needs in assign areas.

Public health epidemiologist example responsibilities.

• Manage projects relate to mammography promotion, hospital profiling, prenatal care, immunization and diabetes.
• Present quarterly lectures on statistics, data analysis, and SAS to epidemiologists and program directors.
• Develop a juvenile prevention, rehabilitation and health promotion program for incarcerate teens.
• Perform analytical medical necessity audits of clinical documentation for CMS compliance and quality improvement of PT/OT department.
• Design, develop and produce statistical reports to describe school-wide assessment-base surveys of childhood and adult immunization levels using SAS.
• Prepare monthly monitoring reports for health care facilities pertaining to the TB treatment of health care workers.
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