Maryland Department of Health

Duties vary greatly depending on the center and bureau that an Epidemiologist works with. Some Epidemiologist split their work loads between surveillance work and analysis work equally, while others work just in surveillance and others just in analysis or any other combination as required by the ...

Very well! Descriptive data collection, analyses and reports are a daily part of the job, and therefore are imperative to my success as an Epidemiologist at MDH. I don't participate in any analytical studies or analyses, so those skills are mainly used to keep up to date on studies that are being...

Very friendly and conducive to collaboration. Many people work their entire careers with the health department, so it is a very friendly environment. Although, working for the government slows some processes down, there is always a project to work on and different collaborative groups to work with.