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Role

AI for Epidemiologists

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Investigate and describe the determinants and distribution of disease, disability, or health outcomes. May develop the means for prevention and control.

Epidemiologists · O*NET 19-1041.00 · Job Zone 5 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

16 of 40tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

24 matched to the tools epidemiologists use. Showing 24.

The tools this job actually uses

42 documented for this occupation. Showing 40, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • ESRI ArcGIS softwarehot
  • Facebookhot
  • IBM SPSS Statisticshot
  • Microsoft Accesshot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft Outlookhot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • Pythonhot
  • Rhot
  • SAShot
  • Structured query language SQLhot
  • Tableauhot
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC WONDER
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epi Info
  • Circle Systems Stat/Transfer
  • Cytel Egret
  • Data visualization software
  • Database software
  • Disease Mapping and Analysis Program DMAP
  • Epicenter Software Epilog
  • EpiData Analysis
  • Esri ArcGIS
  • ESRI ArcInfo
  • ESRI ArcView
  • Expert Health Data Programming Vitalnet
  • GeoDa
  • Geographic information system GIS software
  • HiroSoft EPICURE
  • Meta-analysis with interactive explanations MIX
  • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NIOSH Life Table Analysis System
  • Pan American Health Organization SIGEpi
  • RTI International SUDAAN
  • SaTScan
  • Signal detection software
  • StataCorp Stata
  • Statistical processing software
  • Statistical software
  • TerraSeer ClusterSeer

What this job involves

17 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 17.

  1. Communicate research findings on various types of diseases to health practitioners, policy makers, and the public.
  2. Oversee public health programs, including statistical analysis, health care planning, surveillance systems, and public health improvement.
  3. Investigate diseases or parasites to determine cause and risk factors, progress, life cycle, or mode of transmission.
  4. Educate healthcare workers, patients, and the public about infectious and communicable diseases, including disease transmission and prevention.
  5. Monitor and report incidents of infectious diseases to local and state health agencies.
  6. Plan and direct studies to investigate human or animal disease, preventive methods, and treatments for disease.
  7. Provide expertise in the design, management and evaluation of study protocols and health status questionnaires, sample selection, and analysis.
  8. Write articles for publication in professional journals.
  9. Identify and analyze public health issues related to foodborne parasitic diseases and their impact on public policies, scientific studies, or surveys.
  10. Write grant applications to fund epidemiologic research.
  11. Plan, administer and evaluate health safety standards and programs to improve public health, conferring with health department, industry personnel, physicians, and others.
  12. Conduct research to develop methodologies, instrumentation, and procedures for medical application, analyzing data and presenting findings.
  13. Consult with and advise physicians, educators, researchers, government health officials and others regarding medical applications of sciences, such as physics, biology, and chemistry.
  14. Supervise professional, technical, and clerical personnel.
  15. Teach principles of medicine and medical and laboratory procedures to physicians, residents, students, and technicians.
  16. Prepare and analyze samples to study effects of drugs, gases, pesticides, or microorganisms on cell structure and tissue.
  17. Teach epidemiology to students in public health programs.