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How do you know what type of epidemiologist to become?

I’m in middle school and I’ve wanted to be an epidemiologist for a long time. I’ve spent a lot of time looking up random pathogens, and going down rabbit holes. I’m asking because there’s a lot of different types, and I don’t know which one would suit me the best.

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Look within these fields for your interest: clinical epidemiology, social epidemiology, applied epidemiology and field epidemiology. There are so many jobs out there for epidemiologist, you can work at a health department, a lab, pharmaceutical research or research within an institution or a university. This field is very rewarding, I would tell you to keep researching because you can be more clinical, which will require a medical/clinical degree or more social epi which a degree in public health or biostatistics can help you achieve these types of positions.
Thank you comment icon Thank you so much for the response. What type of epidemiologist are you? Phoebe
Thank you comment icon I used to work as a Communicable Disease Epi at a County health department. I am currently in a doctorate program for Epi so I can work in research. Vanessa Willaman MPH
Thank you comment icon And a maternal and child health epi focusing on preventing infant mortality. Vanessa Willaman MPH
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