Officer-Specialty

PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER

KEEPING OUR FORCES HEALTHY

Caring for the health of our Airmen also means helping preclude illness before it can affect our community. Public Health Officers apply public health, preventive medicine, and medical entomology knowledge, techniques, and skills to promote health and reduce the incidence of communicable/zoonotic/vector-borne diseases, occupational and environmental illnesses and injuries, food-borne diseases, and disease and non-battle injuries while in-garrison and deployed. Public Health Officers constantly monitor conditions and potential health threats. These specialists promote 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.

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What you’ll do

Apply preventive and public health techniques to reduce the risk of illness both in the United States and overseas
Develop, plan and implement public health activities
Establishes and maintains liaison with other medical treatment facility personnel and local public health agencies to ensure an integrated public health program
Direct and conduct food safety, entomology, and public facility sanitation programs
Provide medical intelligence to leadership to help make informed operational decisions as well as to members deploying to reduce disease incidence and promote mission effectiveness
Conducts preventive medicine communicable disease control, occupational health, food protection (food safety and food defense), expeditionary site surveys, and public health preparedness and emergency response programs

TRAINING & EDUCATION

How do we transform you from the civilian sector to a leader and an Officer in the Air Force? From education to continued training, your Air Force path is here.

Officer Training School

8.5 weeks
Military Training Location

Maxwell AFB, AL

REQUIREMENTS

You must meet several requirements before joining the Air Force. These concern your background, overall health and other standards set by the Air Force, Department of Defense and federal law.