I am currently a freshman Biology major at a university, and I am considering becoming a doctor. However, I find public health very intriguing because I want to be involved at the international level, especially with US-Chinese relations. Although this is quite superficial, I would like to ask how much financial success with one of these jobs offer? So far, the highest I have seen is about $100,000 a year. Are there any famous people in the Public health arena? Also, I am interested in business. Does public health carry a business component? Do public health majors ever start their own companies?
Thanks.
2007-09-20 09:34:38 · 6 answers · asked by Female 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
You are right to question this. I work in health care admin and over the years I have seen the people who rise to the top of the $$$ game have an advanced degree associated with a license (health care professional). While the person may not need a medical license to hold the high level job, the medical degree opened the door for the person to get to the podium.
There are lots of people who have been successful in public health - but their names are not household names - or are not even recorded.
those whose names are known are usually associated with a lab science where they discovered a process to identify a problem or possible treatment. They aren't paid the big bucks - but loved what they did.
If you can find a $100,000 job in public health, it almost always has an MD after the name, or it is a person who worked 30 years to get there.
The major employers of people with public health degrees are government - or some private reseach places. but they are mainly interested in folks with laboratory skills - and that's not the big bucks end either. Anyone can start their own business - bid on contracts to develop a new this or that - but credibility comes with degrees.
good luck
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2016-04-05 05:11:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-13 14:26:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Money? In public health???
Honey, if you're thinking of doing real-life public health work, don't expect decent pay. The people who make good money with public health degrees are either supervising physicians, or they sold out to consulting firms or pharma/biotech. Epidemiologists like me make between $30-70k. That's with the MPH. You don't go into PH for the money. You do it for the love of mankind and a desire to make a positive difference. Or you do it 'cause you don't want to go to med school anymore. Otherwise, you're in it to run a clinical trial for Merck or Pfizer.
If you want to go into business and do something related to public health, go with epidemiology. Learn to analyse data. Learn SAS. Then you can work for the big companies and command a bigger paycheck (SAS is key -- without SAS, you don't make $$$). If you have a MBA/MS, you'll look really good to the biotechs and pharms.
Do we start companies? Sure. A lot of us do freelance consulting. But by and large, we stick to the established companies, work for non-profits or work for the gov't.
For now, I'm okay making $42k gross for the local health dept. I get to investigate outbreaks. That's what makes my job cool.
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