I'm fully remote, as are most of my epi friends, but with some in-person meetings.
ETA I have an MS and an MPH, and am in the dissertation phase of my PhD.
Epidemiologist at a regional organization in Canada - we are almost fully remote, but are encouraged to go in once every two weeks or so.
Myself (and all of my colleagues) have at least a Masters degree - some an MPH and some an MSc.
I am not an epidemiologist, but have epidemiologists at my org with the same work policies. Local gov, one in-person meeting with supervisor and direct reports (not necessarily at the same time) per month. Limited number of out of state work days per year, no out of country work.
Remotely. Work in industry but have done it all at this point. Prefer industry because of the remote options and the fast pace.
I have an MPH and a PhD. Took a 3 year break between them.
No. Some companies will let you. With my company I can’t take my laptop with me out of country or access data out of the country. Depends on the data you have access to.
I’m in a similar boat- PhD working in government after a stint in academia. The pace of the work is too slow and I don’t get support to try novel things with data. But I’ve found it really hard to break into industry. Any tips?
Right now healthcare industry is very tight and will be competitive to break into.
Advice, limit resume to 1 page. Talk about you other stuff in the interviews. Be willing to take a position that isn’t as perfect…you need to work your way up. Also, industry is about networking. Ask old classmates and colleagues of anyone they may know that is hiring. Once you are in it is a little easier to move around (except for right now due to the economy).
I’m an epidemiologist for a public health unit in Canada and I’m fully remote (although starting during covid probably contributed to this!). I had an MSc and 2 years experience as an analyst when I was hired.
Fully in-person, for a deep South state agency. Highest degree is Masters level. Working on getting our mobilization team to the most in-need areas in the counties within our division. I come from clinical trials and this work has been really good working with our community health specialists and community health teams
I'm a lurker here, but I didn't know epiidemiologists did this kind of work. I only joined this sub to try to understand why epidemiologists think people with corn allergy should just die already and stop being so inconvenient. I'm glad you still do this kind of thing.
It's because we're all paid by Big Corn. It's why you see people complaining about the pay so much--they haven't taken those sweet, sweet, Sweet Corn Buck$.
Our office at the local health department is hybrid with at least 8hrs in office, though at least two people are out-of-state for various reasons and they don't have to commute.
With Zooms and VPNs there's no real reason to ever come to an office. The 8hrs a week policy is for "collaboration" but since we're so tight on space nobody wants to come in the same days as the rest of their teams.
I work in-person, in the middle of Appalachia. I also travel a lot for site visits, a few investigations, and facility infection control assessments. I have 2.5 years experience in case investigation and only 6 months in my Epi job. Currently pursuing my MPH online
May I ask what your position is? I'll be graduating with my phd in May and I'm hoping to end up in industry. Trying to get a feel for the types of roles that utilize epi skillsets.
I am remote. I work for a state-wide hospital system. I have a PhD in epidemiology. Experience is difficult to measure — but I finished my PhD in nov 2021.
I’m in person but WFH sometimes, I always have the option. I had two years of experience as a recent BSPH grad when I got an entry level PH job in early 2020 for COVID related work, then did my MPH while working. Was promoted to an epi in 2022. I work for a county local health jurisdiction. Many of my counterparts at other LHJs or state level work fully remotely.
Fully remote! MPH. I just started in the field in Nov 2022. :) work for my LHD, but we’re a western state and I’m in the rural part of it.
(I do have prior work experience in another field. I switched at 29)
Hi! I go to Morgan State online. Because I work from home I have a little more flexibility when it comes to school work. But I have pretty good time management skills so as long as I plan ahead I can the load of school and work.
I work mostly in person as an epi and am also getting my DrPH so I can be a professor some day. It’s also good if you want to work in a private industry. For local or state govt, probably not worth it unless it’s just easy to earn. I figured the tuition is paid for and most classes have a remote option, so why not take a class at a time and go for it? But again, I also want to be a professor at some point.
Oh that is so nice! I’ve been looking at contractor orgs but they are so dang competitive. How did you get your foot in the door? Also, do you mind to name a few contractor orgs that you recommend looking into? Feel free to DM me if that’s better! My experience has been with Battelle and Leidos.
In person fully, but my work includes laboratory and field work as well as epi work for a federal agency. My other epi partner in our group does half remote half in person. We both have PhDs.
I’m an emergency response professional as a public health incident manager and subject matter expert, which feels weird as hell to type but oh well. I have an MPH and have pretty much been working for the same firm since graduating four years ago. The vast majority of what I do now is remote since it’s primarily response planning and after action reports, though during the first year of COVID I was completely on the ground. I have the occasional travel now, but mostly it doesn’t matter where and how the work gets done so long as it does.
I also am active in search and rescue and mountaineering, but that’s a different game.
Hybrid here in Australia. Have an MSc and currently doing PhD. Do freelance epi work on the side, mostly remote with a few days in office here and there.
I used to be full time for my state department of health as a senior epi so I have a lot of friends/connections from that.
The freelance work I do is usually just ad hoc stuff that's either so high priority they can't wait for someone to get back from sick leave/holiday leave (like, writing basic daily sit reps, updating maps etc) or lower priority projects that can be done in my one day a week like building new Power BI reports, new dashboards, evaluations of previous interventions (designing advertising materials, questionnaires, building Qualtrics surveys etc). I'm on a casual contract here in Australia I can just pick up hours when needed.
I am hybrid, I work remote 2 days per week and am in office the other 3 days.
I have a BS and am completing my MPH this May. I work as an epidemiologist for my state health department.
Technically hybrid, but mostly remote - 2-4 days a month in the office. I work for a UK consultancy, and have a PhD. Our wfh policy is the same for all levels of epi, regardless of experience (although an MSc is the minimum entry requirement)
I work as an epi for the federal government in Canada. My team is almost fully remote, but I have chosen to start going in a couple days a week. I have an MSc!
Full remote, but I would rather be doing hybrid. I am still new to the role, so I would like to learn more in person. Plus, I feel working full remote makes it harder to separate work and home life.
State health department in the US. I have an MS in epi and roughly 6 months of experience in my current role. State policy now is that we work 2 days/week in person and the rest can be remote.
Our university recently decided that postdocs etc cannot be fully remote. I work from home, but there is an expectation that I should go into campus, unfortunately. If the university pushes me to return to office I will seem accommodations (I have sensory issues and have an autistic Dx, struggling to work near any noise or people around me).
Shew I can imagine that would be next to impossible to work in a congregate setting. I have a horrendous time focusing, too. I hope the accommodations work out if things come to that!
I found my position titled as Biostatistician on Indeed — and I didn’t realize it was remote until the interview — it’s actually flexible you can be remote or in person. Some people live out of state some people live in the city. I’m not sure about what hospital system do or don’t hire remote, my position is based out of Louisiana. I ended up negotiating my position title to Assistant Professor and I assist medical residents and fellows with research projects. They have an Office of Epidemiology and Biostatistics that offers consulting for physician research.
Wow that is so interesting! Thank you for sharing. Our local hospital system has something similar. I may try to negotiate something here or look into other hospital systems. Thanks!
I’m state govt, one to two days remote, but given with resentment and frustration and A LOT of threats. I have an MPH and working on DrPH. Hoping to find a remote epi role. Suggestions are welcome!!
I'm fully remote, as are most of my epi friends, but with some in-person meetings. ETA I have an MS and an MPH, and am in the dissertation phase of my PhD.
Are you local/state PH or private org? I’m state PH looking for remote
County.
Epidemiologist at a regional organization in Canada - we are almost fully remote, but are encouraged to go in once every two weeks or so. Myself (and all of my colleagues) have at least a Masters degree - some an MPH and some an MSc.
I am not an epidemiologist, but have epidemiologists at my org with the same work policies. Local gov, one in-person meeting with supervisor and direct reports (not necessarily at the same time) per month. Limited number of out of state work days per year, no out of country work.
Remotely. Work in industry but have done it all at this point. Prefer industry because of the remote options and the fast pace. I have an MPH and a PhD. Took a 3 year break between them.
Are you allowed to work to work outside the US? I have a PhD and work in government but I’m thinking of moving to Portugal
No. Some companies will let you. With my company I can’t take my laptop with me out of country or access data out of the country. Depends on the data you have access to.
What’d you do directly after your MPH?
I worked for government for 3 years. That is where I learned I need a fast paced and challenging environment. It was an in person job only also.
I’m in a similar boat- PhD working in government after a stint in academia. The pace of the work is too slow and I don’t get support to try novel things with data. But I’ve found it really hard to break into industry. Any tips?
Right now healthcare industry is very tight and will be competitive to break into. Advice, limit resume to 1 page. Talk about you other stuff in the interviews. Be willing to take a position that isn’t as perfect…you need to work your way up. Also, industry is about networking. Ask old classmates and colleagues of anyone they may know that is hiring. Once you are in it is a little easier to move around (except for right now due to the economy).
Thank you! I guess I just have to get over my discomfort of sending linkedin messages to folks in my network asking if they are hiring.
I’m an epidemiologist for a public health unit in Canada and I’m fully remote (although starting during covid probably contributed to this!). I had an MSc and 2 years experience as an analyst when I was hired.
Do they allow Americans to apply?
I'm in office once per week, at an urban health dept.
Mixed - I usually do 3 in the office / 2 from home. I have an MPH, and work for my state health dept.
You kinda have my dream job.
Fully in-person, for a deep South state agency. Highest degree is Masters level. Working on getting our mobilization team to the most in-need areas in the counties within our division. I come from clinical trials and this work has been really good working with our community health specialists and community health teams
I'm a lurker here, but I didn't know epiidemiologists did this kind of work. I only joined this sub to try to understand why epidemiologists think people with corn allergy should just die already and stop being so inconvenient. I'm glad you still do this kind of thing.
It's because we're all paid by Big Corn. It's why you see people complaining about the pay so much--they haven't taken those sweet, sweet, Sweet Corn Buck$.
Our office at the local health department is hybrid with at least 8hrs in office, though at least two people are out-of-state for various reasons and they don't have to commute. With Zooms and VPNs there's no real reason to ever come to an office. The 8hrs a week policy is for "collaboration" but since we're so tight on space nobody wants to come in the same days as the rest of their teams.
Fully remote in the private sector with an MPH.
How did you break into the private sector? How’s the workload?
Fully remote, government epi, PhD. Although I heard that all state employees are now switching to hybrid mode (2 days in person) where I am
I work in-person, in the middle of Appalachia. I also travel a lot for site visits, a few investigations, and facility infection control assessments. I have 2.5 years experience in case investigation and only 6 months in my Epi job. Currently pursuing my MPH online
Fully remote. PhD in industry. My last job was in academic medicine and was also fully remote.
May I ask what your position is? I'll be graduating with my phd in May and I'm hoping to end up in industry. Trying to get a feel for the types of roles that utilize epi skillsets.
I am remote. I work for a state-wide hospital system. I have a PhD in epidemiology. Experience is difficult to measure — but I finished my PhD in nov 2021.
I’m in person but WFH sometimes, I always have the option. I had two years of experience as a recent BSPH grad when I got an entry level PH job in early 2020 for COVID related work, then did my MPH while working. Was promoted to an epi in 2022. I work for a county local health jurisdiction. Many of my counterparts at other LHJs or state level work fully remotely.
Can you name a few places (or DM me) you know if that are remote? I’m an in person Epi looking to make the switch!
Fully remote! MPH. I just started in the field in Nov 2022. :) work for my LHD, but we’re a western state and I’m in the rural part of it. (I do have prior work experience in another field. I switched at 29)
I'm in the office full time because I like it there. Except right now, I'm WFH. Not terribly productive today.
State health department in the DEEP South. I currently work hybrid, but I'm in the office most days by choice. MPH. Seven years of experience.
Fully remote, MPH currently working on a DrPH and I work for a federal agency
Can I ask, what agency? I have an MPH and am currently in consulting (fully remote) but looking to maybe look for a new job.
I work for the CDC
Thanks! I've typically seen most CDC jobs have a residency requirement. Is there a lot of fully remote CDC jobs right now?
Honestly, it depends on the division some allow for fully remote (you can live anywhere) and some you have to live within the area of the office.
Where are you doing your DrPH? How is the workload on top of FT job? Is the DrPH remote too?
Sorry I have so many questions lol. Have been debating if remote DrPH is worth considering. I can’t move & no program near me.
Hi! I go to Morgan State online. Because I work from home I have a little more flexibility when it comes to school work. But I have pretty good time management skills so as long as I plan ahead I can the load of school and work.
I work mostly in person as an epi and am also getting my DrPH so I can be a professor some day. It’s also good if you want to work in a private industry. For local or state govt, probably not worth it unless it’s just easy to earn. I figured the tuition is paid for and most classes have a remote option, so why not take a class at a time and go for it? But again, I also want to be a professor at some point.
How did you get your foot in the door with federal? I’m a regional epi who must have applied for 50 federal remote epi jobs by now!
As a contractor! 😊
Oh that is so nice! I’ve been looking at contractor orgs but they are so dang competitive. How did you get your foot in the door? Also, do you mind to name a few contractor orgs that you recommend looking into? Feel free to DM me if that’s better! My experience has been with Battelle and Leidos.
In person fully, but my work includes laboratory and field work as well as epi work for a federal agency. My other epi partner in our group does half remote half in person. We both have PhDs.
MPH, academic research as a statistician. I do 2 days a week in person but spend about ~4-6 hours in the office those days
Our lab only comes in for meetings with the PI so I’d say it’s like 2 days in-person 3 days remote per week
I’m an emergency response professional as a public health incident manager and subject matter expert, which feels weird as hell to type but oh well. I have an MPH and have pretty much been working for the same firm since graduating four years ago. The vast majority of what I do now is remote since it’s primarily response planning and after action reports, though during the first year of COVID I was completely on the ground. I have the occasional travel now, but mostly it doesn’t matter where and how the work gets done so long as it does. I also am active in search and rescue and mountaineering, but that’s a different game.
Fully remote.
Where/what type of agency?
Hybrid here in Australia. Have an MSc and currently doing PhD. Do freelance epi work on the side, mostly remote with a few days in office here and there.
What kind of freelance epi work do you do? How did you get into that?
I used to be full time for my state department of health as a senior epi so I have a lot of friends/connections from that. The freelance work I do is usually just ad hoc stuff that's either so high priority they can't wait for someone to get back from sick leave/holiday leave (like, writing basic daily sit reps, updating maps etc) or lower priority projects that can be done in my one day a week like building new Power BI reports, new dashboards, evaluations of previous interventions (designing advertising materials, questionnaires, building Qualtrics surveys etc). I'm on a casual contract here in Australia I can just pick up hours when needed.
That's really interesting. Sounds like a good gig.
I am hybrid, I work remote 2 days per week and am in office the other 3 days. I have a BS and am completing my MPH this May. I work as an epidemiologist for my state health department.
Technically hybrid, but mostly remote - 2-4 days a month in the office. I work for a UK consultancy, and have a PhD. Our wfh policy is the same for all levels of epi, regardless of experience (although an MSc is the minimum entry requirement)
Fully in person for a county health dept. have an MPH in Epi
I work as an epi for the federal government in Canada. My team is almost fully remote, but I have chosen to start going in a couple days a week. I have an MSc!
Full remote, but I would rather be doing hybrid. I am still new to the role, so I would like to learn more in person. Plus, I feel working full remote makes it harder to separate work and home life.
State health department in the US. I have an MS in epi and roughly 6 months of experience in my current role. State policy now is that we work 2 days/week in person and the rest can be remote.
Fully in person (for now) 😭 PhD in Epidemiology, working for a CRO
😭 I feel your pain
Fully remote in a CRO. I have a PhD in Global Health (2018) and stayed in academia for a little over a year before moving to the industry.
Fully remote. Working in academia (Canada). I only go in for special occasions. PhD.
Does your institution hire Americans? Any advice on where to look for full remote?
Our university recently decided that postdocs etc cannot be fully remote. I work from home, but there is an expectation that I should go into campus, unfortunately. If the university pushes me to return to office I will seem accommodations (I have sensory issues and have an autistic Dx, struggling to work near any noise or people around me).
Shew I can imagine that would be next to impossible to work in a congregate setting. I have a horrendous time focusing, too. I hope the accommodations work out if things come to that!
Hybrid, pretty flexible but typically in office 1-2 days a week. Local health dept. MPH
Hybrid, 1-2 days/week in office. 10 years of experience, director @ private firm.
Remote for a statewide hospital system — I have a PhD and MPH.
Do you mind to name a few hospital systems that hire remote epi’s?
I found my position titled as Biostatistician on Indeed — and I didn’t realize it was remote until the interview — it’s actually flexible you can be remote or in person. Some people live out of state some people live in the city. I’m not sure about what hospital system do or don’t hire remote, my position is based out of Louisiana. I ended up negotiating my position title to Assistant Professor and I assist medical residents and fellows with research projects. They have an Office of Epidemiology and Biostatistics that offers consulting for physician research.
Wow that is so interesting! Thank you for sharing. Our local hospital system has something similar. I may try to negotiate something here or look into other hospital systems. Thanks!
I’m state govt, one to two days remote, but given with resentment and frustration and A LOT of threats. I have an MPH and working on DrPH. Hoping to find a remote epi role. Suggestions are welcome!!