Career Resources
We encourage our students, alumni, and anyone interested in pursuing a public health career to explore the resources below!
Your Academic Advisor: Each matriculated, active student should have at least one meetign with their advisor each semester. During this meeting, you should discuss career plans and seek advice. If your advisor is not the right person to discuss a specific career path, they can recommend another member of the department, or professional connections elsewhere, for targetted advice regarding specific careers in Public Health.
Linkedin: Connect with the Upstate Public Health LinkedIn page for announcements, and job postings that we share.
Department Members & Faculty: We have a wide-ranging body of expertise represented within the Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, with a number of different career paths and areas of expertise. Feel free to reach out to the individuals below:
Career Advisors - Public Health & Preventive Medicine Faculty
- Mary Carney MPH - Public Health Consulting
- Margaret Formica PhD - Research, Epidemiology, Doctoral Study
- Rebecca Garden PhD - Humanities, food systems, disability studies, deaf community, refugee issues, community issues
- Christina Campagna MPH - Community Issues, Global Health
- Travis Hobart MD MPH - Preventive Medicine, Medicine and Public Health
- Alyssa Indelicato MPH - Administration, Project Coordination
- Elizabeth Luke MS MPH - Lab-based careers, grant writing
- Christopher Morley PhD - Academic Careers, Primary Care, Leadership, Research Methods (Quantitative & Qualitative), Medical School, IRB/Human Subjects Protection, Policy, Publishing
- Zoreslava Osiv MBA - Community Agencies, Administration, Refugee issues
- Jamie Romeiser PhD - Research Consulting, Clinical Trials, Quantitative Research Methods
- Scott Rosas PhD - Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods, Consulting, Program Evaluation, Strategic Planning
- Telisa Stewart DrPH - Community Engagement, Network Building, Qualitative Research Methods
- Stephen Thomas MD - Medical Issues, Global Health, Clinical Trials, Vaccine Development, Pharmaceutical Industry
- Josh Wallace MS MPH - Statistical Consulting, Pharmaceutical Analytics
- Augusta Williams ScD - environmental and occupational health, federal government, recent graduate fellowships within the federal government, climate change
- Martha Wojtowycz PhD - Local and State health agencies, Community Organizations, Maternal and Child health, Policy
- Roger Wong PhD - Careers related to aging, Epidemiology, Data analyst roles in several local health departments
Public Health Career Explorer
The Public Health Career Explorer career assessment tool was developed at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, with public funding. The tool helps identify users’ career interests, provides insights based on the results, and matches users with active health department job openings. More information about Public Health Career Explorer is available from the Mailman School of Public Health's website.
We encourage anyone interested pursing a career in this wide-ranging field to make use of the freely available Public Health Career Explorer (https://www.publichealthcareers.org/assessment/intro/).
Public Health - Other Job Sites
- ASPPH Public Health Jobs- https://publichealthjobs.aspph.org/
- APHA- https://careers.apha.org/jobseekers/
- New York Department of Health Jobs- https://www.health.ny.gov/employment/
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - Jobs: https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/about/employment/job-search.page
- New York State Association of County Health Officials - Careers: https://www.nysacho.org/careers/
- Onondaga County Health Department- https://employment.ongov.net/
- Upstate- https://careers.upstate.edu/jobs/search
- Career Builder job-public Health- https://www.careerbuilder.com/jobs-public-health
- https://healthhumanitiesconsortium.com/job-board/find-a-job/
- https://www.cugh.org/online-tools/job-board/
- https://apps.sph.emory.edu/PHEC/
Job engines:
- Indeed - Public Health Jobs: https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=public%20health&l=
- Salary.com- https://www.salary.com