# Competences — epidemiologist

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b73c752b-9858-4f53-82de-f3a340cbcae9).

## Essential

- **apply for research funding** (skill/competence)
- **apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities** (skill/competence)
- **apply scientific methods** (skill/competence)
- **apply statistical analysis techniques** (skill/competence)
- **biometrics** (knowledge)
- **communicable diseases** (knowledge)
- **communicate with a non-scientific audience** (skill/competence)
- **conduct research across disciplines** (skill/competence)
- **demonstrate disciplinary expertise** (skill/competence)
- **develop professional network with researchers and scientists** (skill/competence)
- **disseminate results to the scientific community** (skill/competence)
- **draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation** (skill/competence)
- **epidemiology** (knowledge)
- **evaluate research activities** (skill/competence)
- **gather experimental data** (skill/competence)
- **increase the impact of science on policy and society** (skill/competence)
- **integrate gender dimension in research** (skill/competence)
- **interact professionally in research and professional environments** (skill/competence)
- **manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data** (skill/competence)
- **manage intellectual property rights** (skill/competence)
- **manage open publications** (skill/competence)
- **manage personal professional development** (skill/competence)
- **manage research data** (skill/competence)
- **mentor individuals** (skill/competence)
- **operate open source software** (skill/competence)
- **perform project management** (skill/competence)
- **perform scientific research** (skill/competence)
- **prevent communicable diseases' outbreaks** (skill/competence)
- **preventive medicine** (knowledge)
- **project management** (knowledge)
- **promote open innovation in research** (skill/competence)
- **promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities** (skill/competence)
- **promote the transfer of knowledge** (skill/competence)
- **public health** (knowledge)
- **publish academic research** (skill/competence)
- **report analysis results** (skill/competence)
- **research design** (knowledge)
- **scientific literature** (knowledge)
- **scientific research methodology** (knowledge)
- **speak different languages** (skill/competence)
- **statistics** (knowledge)
- **synthesise information** (skill/competence)
- **take disease prevention measures** (skill/competence)
- **think abstractly** (skill/competence)
- **write scientific publications** (skill/competence)

## Optional

- advise on legislative acts (skill/competence)
- analyse blood samples (skill/competence)
- apply blended learning (skill/competence)
- archive scientific documentation (skill/competence)
- assess environmental impact (skill/competence)
- assist in clinical trials (skill/competence)
- biological chemistry (knowledge)
- biology (knowledge)
- contribute to practice innovation in health care (skill/competence)
- contribute to public health campaigns (skill/competence)
- develop communicable disease control policies (skill/competence)
- develop scientific research protocols (skill/competence)
- develop scientific theories (skill/competence)
- develop vaccines (skill/competence)
- educate on the prevention of illness (skill/competence)
- general medicine (knowledge)
- genomics (knowledge)
- immunology (knowledge)
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges (skill/competence)
- laboratory techniques (knowledge)
- life sciences (knowledge)
- manage clinical risk (skill/competence)
- manufacture medicines (skill/competence)
- microbiology-bacteriology (knowledge)
- multidisciplinary research (knowledge)
- perform laboratory tests (skill/competence)
- professional documentation in health care (knowledge)
- SAS language (knowledge)
- statistical analysis system software (knowledge)
- teach in academic or vocational contexts (skill/competence)
- virology (knowledge)