PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER
Company: United States Air Force
Location: Brownsville
Posted on: September 29, 2024
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Job Description:
KEEPING OUR FORCES HEALTHY
Caring for the health of our Airmen also means helping preclude
illness before it can affect our community. Public Health Officers
apply public health, preventive medicine, and medical entomology
knowledge, techniques, and skills to promote health and reduce the
incidence of communicable/zoonotic/vector-borne diseases,
occupational and environmental illnesses and injuries, food-borne
diseases, and disease and non-battle injuries while in-garrison and
deployed. Public Health Officers constantly monitor conditions and
potential health threats. These specialists promote public health
through epidemiological surveillance of health and disease trends
in populations, as well as monitoring food safety practices, and
sanitation levels in public and food service facilities.
REQUIREMENTS
You must meet several requirements before joining the Air Force.
These concern your background, overall health and other standards
set by the Air Force, Department of Defense and federal law.Minimum
Education
For Public Health Officers, knowledge of basic epidemiology,
microbiology, food technology and hygiene, communicable diseases,
occupational and environmental health, -and medical entomology.
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