Public Health Lab Careers

 With a career in public health labs, you can choose among many different fields: food safety, emergency preparedness, emerging infectious diseases, newborn screening/genetics, environmental sciences, and public health informatics. You also can specialize by disease—HIV or TB, for example—or by disease agent (what causes a disease).

Some specific roles include:

• Chemist
• Microbiologist
• Virologist
• Bioterrorism Coordinator
• Newborn Screening Manager
• Supervisor/Administrator/Director

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