Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an epidemiologist can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an epidemiologist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Epidemiologists centre their research on origin and causes for illness eruption in humans. They determine the way in which diseases are spread out and propose risk preventive measures to health policy organisms.

Also known as epidemiology science researcher, epidemiology researcher, epidemiology research analyst, epidemiology analyst, epidemiology research scientist, epidaemiologist, epidemiology scholar, epidemiology scientist.

Professionals 76 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: biometrician, 75%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
biometrician 75% covered religion scientific researcher 74% covered astronomer 74% covered palaeontologist 72% covered immunologist 71% covered epidemiologist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from epidemiologist, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an epidemiologist already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

An epidemiologist needs 45 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • take disease prevention measures management skills
  • prevent communicable diseases' outbreaks communication, collaboration and creativity
  • preventive medicine health and welfare
  • biometrics natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • epidemiology health and welfare
  • communicable diseases health and welfare
  • public health health and welfare
  • gather experimental data information skills
  • research design generic programmes and qualifications
  • scientific literature generic programmes and qualifications
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an epidemiologist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Epidemiologist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an epidemiologist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.