Career Information

From Pfizer, this downloadable version of "Advancing Healthy Populations: The Pfizer Guide to Careers in Public Health" inspires pursuit of work in public health and provides a practical resource for making the most of potential opportunities across a broad range of career choices. Critical topics include health policy and management, epidemiology, oral health, family health, environmental health, public health preparedness, international and global health, and more. In all, this guide offers 33 information-packed chapters featuring practice experiences and thoughtful essays by leaders in many areas of the public health field including research, academia, fieldwork, and more.
http://www.pfizercareerguides.com/publichealth.html

Part of the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) website, this page contains a brief overview of careers in public health, including examples of public health employers and job titles; also includes a link to Pfizer's Guide to Careers in Public Health (mentioned above).
http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=728

Part of the site created by the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) and Pfizer, this page describes various disciplines in public health and has direct links to the pages of the "Advancing Healthy Populations" book by Pfizer.
http://www.whatispublichealth.org/careers/careers.html

Part of the Harvard School of Public Health website, this "Career Services Guide" is a webpage highlighting ten public health career fields with role definitions, market trends, and examples of jobs some of Harvard's graduates have taken.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/careers/guide-careers.html

From the All Allied Health Schools website, this page contains common questions and answers about public health careers, including

What public health is
What public health professionals do and where they work
Job market trends and sample job titles
Training needed to enter the field
Types of degrees are offered
Salary ranges for public health professionals
How to get started
Links to featured schools

http://www.allalliedhealthschools.com/faqs/public_health.php

Part of the FDA website, this page on "Careers: Profiles of Food Science Professionals" provides 16 full-length interviews from people in a variety of food science careers to give readers a taste of the possibilities for working in food safety.
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/careers.html

From the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Science Education website, this "LifeWorks" section explores health and medical science careers, with over 100 career descriptions (including dietitian/nutritionist, epidemiologist, health educator, and occupational health and safety specialist) and the ability to browse them alphabetically, or by required education, interest area, or median salary. The site also has interview transcripts from working professionals, as well as a Career Finder feature that sifts through 106 possibilities and creates a list of jobs based on the user's interests and skills.
http://science.education.nih.gov/LifeWorks

Part of HRSA's Bureau of Health Related Professions website, this section on Kids in Health Careers includes a complete information package with guidance materials to use in working with local school systems and includes a sample presentation script for students in grades 6 through 12 (as well as additional scripts for talking with adults or younger students). Additional useful information is provided in the appendices:

Description of a public health professional position: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/kidscareers/ph_pro.htm
Health professional reference material: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/kidscareers/appendixA.htm
Financial assistance information: http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/kidscareers/appendixC.htm

http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/kidscareers/default.htm

Part of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) website, this "Health in Education" section highlights:

public health issues (background, resources, and a career focus)
public health careers (references, resources, and link to a featured article)

http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.b94736aad455f261695c2711d3108a0c/

From the Monstertrak website (a division of Monster.com), this article "Public Health Careers: Opportunities to Improve Many Lives at a Time" describes public health activities, job titles, specialties and sub-specialties, and links to additional resources.
http://content.monstertrak.monster.com/resources/archive/careerfields/publichealth/

Part of the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics website, this link to the "Occupational Outlook Handbook (2006-2007 Edition)" provides access to career information for hundreds of occupations. Information for most of the listed occupations includes: nature of the work; working conditions; employment; training, other qualifications, and advancement; job outlook; earnings; related occupations; and sources of additional information. Environmental scientist, health educator, medical and health services manager (health administration), medical scientist (epidemiology), and statistician (biostatistics) profiles are included.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/

Part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Science Education website, this LifeWorks career finder sifts through 112 possibilities and creates a list of jobs for you to explore based on your interest and skills.
http://science-education.nih.gov/LifeWorks.nsf/CareerFinder.htm

From the New Jersey Society for Public Health Education (NJ SOPHE), this brochure describes jobs and employment settings for health educators, as well as schools offering training and professional preparation in the field.
[Exciting Careers in Health Education PDF]

From the National Environmental Health Science Protection and Accreditation Council (EHAC), this brochure describes environmental health careers and training.
[Careers in Environmental Health: A Future Worth Considering PDF]