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43HX Public Health Officer

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Overview

A Public Health Officer monitors conditions and potential health threats in garrison and deployed settings. This officer conducts epidemiological surveillance and monitors food safety and sanitation to reduce communicable, zoonotic, vector-borne, food-borne, occupational, and environmental illnesses and injuries.

Core Skills

  • Population disease trend surveillance
  • Food safety and sanitation monitoring
  • Zoonotic and vector-borne disease prevention
  • Public health emergency preparedness coordination

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Occupational Health and Safety Specialists

Experience preventing occupational illnesses and injuries and evaluating environmental health information transfers to workplace health risk assessment and prevention.

How to prepare: Complete a workplace safety inspection exercise using the regulations applicable to your target industry. Specialists typically need a bachelor's degree in occupational health and safety or a related field, and some employers prefer prior industry experience.

What the civilian work involves
  • Recommend measures to help protect workers from potentially hazardous work methods, processes, or materials.
  • Inspect or evaluate workplace environments, equipment, or practices to ensure compliance with safety standards and government regulations.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word

Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health

Evaluating environmental and public health information and monitoring sanitation provides a foundation for environmental health analysis and prevention work.

How to prepare: Build a sample environmental health assessment using public environmental data and the applicable environmental standards, documenting findings and recommended controls.

What the civilian work involves
  • Collect, synthesize, analyze, manage, and report environmental data, such as pollution emission measurements, atmospheric monitoring measurements, meteorological or mineralogical information, or soil or water samples.
  • Review and implement environmental technical standards, guidelines, policies, and formal regulations that meet all appropriate requirements.
  • Provide scientific or technical guidance, support, coordination, or oversight to governmental agencies, environmental programs, industry, or the public.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • ESRI ArcGIS software

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER (43HX)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER"; normalized cached text lines 6829-6855; family-level section (43H4, 43H3, 43H1)

    Supports: Population disease trend surveillance, Food safety and sanitation monitoring, Zoonotic and vector-borne disease prevention, Public health emergency preparedness coordination, Occupational Health and Safety Specialists (O*NET 19-5011.00), Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health (O*NET 19-2041.00)

  2. O*NET: Occupational Health and Safety Specialists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Occupational Health and Safety Specialists (O*NET 19-5011.00)

  3. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Health and Safety Specialists and Technicians

    [3] How to Become One: Education, Training, Work Experience; page dated 2026-08-27, retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: Occupational Health and Safety Specialists (O*NET 19-5011.00)

  4. O*NET: Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health (O*NET 19-2041.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 43HX

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