r/publichealth • u/Short-Worldliness297 • 5d ago

DISCUSSION Is Public Health a good path ?

If there anyone who is currently doing there bsc or mph in public health or a proffessional, please kindly share your insights and experiences.They'll be really worth for me.

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u/hisglasses66 5d ago

Not at this time, hard quant or medical sciences is the only path today. def do not do a BS in Public health - its a fake degree

Got my MPH 10 years ago. Great fulfilling career at the intersection of policy, epi, machine learning and economic. Run my own thing now. Worth it for me, but my clinical data skills is what opened the door.

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u/Antigensuperbug 5d ago

What do you mean by clinical data sets ? 

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u/hisglasses66 5d ago

EMR/EHR data, Healthcare billing data and data systems that lives inside a healthcare organization limited to physician groups, hospitals, labs, health insurance and maybe a few other places.

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u/Antigensuperbug 5d ago

Thanks for your reply. Appreciate it !