Public Health Officers apply Applies public health, preventive medicine and medical entomology knowledge, techniques, and skills to promote health and reduce the incidence of communicable/zoonotic/vectorbone diseases, occupational and environmental illnesses and injuries, food borne diseases, and disease and non-battle injuries while in-garrison and deployed. Promotes public health through epidemiological surveillance of health and disease trends in populations, as well as monitoring food safety practices, and sanitation levels in public and food service facilities. Develops, plans, and implements public health activities. Conducts preventive medicine communicable disease control, occupational health, food protection (food safety and food defense), and disaster response programs. Establishes and maintains liaison with other medical treatment facility personnel and local public health agencies to ensure an integrated public health program. Advises on public health issues, including manning, and training. Identifies required facilities, personnel, funding, and other resources. Prepares regulations and operating
instructions, acquires technical bulletins, and presents training programs to support public health. Evaluates existing public health programs and recommends changes in policies and procedures. Supports Reserve and Guard component units assisting with the determination of program effectiveness and compliance with standards.