CAREER ROADMAPS
Find your route into public health.
Explore practical career roadmaps covering key public health pathways, including the roles, skills, entry routes and progression opportunities that can help you plan your next move.
WHY USE A ROADMAP?
Make the pathway easier to understand before you start applying.
Understand what the pathway actually involves
See common entry routes and progression
Identify useful skills and qualifications
Make more targeted career decisions
Choose a pathway and explore what it takes to move into it.
EXPLORE THE ROADMAPS
Public Health Policy
Use evidence, strategy and influencing skills to shape decisions that improve population health.
Understand patterns of disease, identify risks and use evidence to support better public health decisions.
Epidemiology
Health Intelligence
Turn population health data into insight that helps organisations identify priorities and make better decisions.
Health Improvement
Use evidence, strategy and influencing skills to shape decisions that improve population health.
Help prevent and respond to infectious disease, environmental hazards and other threats to health.
Health Protection
Environmental Health
Use evidence, strategy and influencing skills to shape decisions that improve population health.
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
Let the pathway quiz point you in the right direction.
Answer a few questions about your interests, strengths and the kind of work you want to do, and use the results to explore the public health pathways that may suit you best.
A practical guide to help you understand the pathway and act on it.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Each roadmap breaks the pathway down into the information you need to understand the field, identify realistic routes in and plan your next steps.
Pathway overview
Typical roles and job titles
Entry routes and transferable backgrounds
Skills and competencies
Qualifications and development
Where to look and what to search
Start with the pathway that feels closest to where you want to go.
READY TO EXPLORE?
Explore the roadmaps, take the pathway quiz, or start with the area you’re most curious about. You do not need to have everything figured out before you begin.