Mailman School graduates are prepared to assume a wide array of professional positions. A small sampling of post-graduate career options includes the following:
- A Biostatistics graduate might pursue opportunities as a data manager at NYU or Columbia University Medical Centers or the New York State Psychiatric Institute, a statistician with one of the many biotech firms in the Cambridge/Boston area or a research biostatistician/ statistical programmer in the pharmaceutical industry or with a governmental agency or not-for- profit organization.
- An Environmental Health Sciences alumna might accept a position as an analyst with the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC or NYC, a research scientist with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, a scientific/regulatory consultant with a NJ-based scientific consulting or VA-based environmental consulting firm, or a researcher with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC or Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Boston, MA.
- An Epidemiology alumnus might follow his dream of a career in surveillance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta or the San Francisco, CA Department of Public Health, a career in research with Pfizer or Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, or a post-graduate fellowship with the NIH in Maryland, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists at various locations in the United States or the Kaiser Family Foundation in Menlo Park, California.
- A Health Policy and Management graduate might pursue opportunities in health care administration with the NorthShore - Long Island Jewish Health System in Long Island, NY, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, or Kaiser Permanent in California, health policy/public health analysis with a state agency in Hartford, CT, the DC Department of Health Care Finance or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in MD or health care consulting with a NYC or Boston-based consulting firm.
- A Population and Family Health graduate might be recruited for a position as a Program Coordinator with the Population Council in NYC, accept a position as a monitoring, evaluation and research associate with EngenderHealth in NYC , pursue an opportunity as a Presidential Management Fellow with the NIH in Bethesda, MD or HUD in Washington, DC or become an HIV Specialist/Trainer with UNAIDS in NYC.
- A Sociomedical Sciences alumnus might accept an opportunity as a research project manager or research analyst at the New York State Psychiatric Institute or the National Center for Children in Poverty in NYC or a project coordinator in the monitoring, evaluation and research unit of a not for profit in California, be recruited as a health and welfare associate at a NYC metropolitan area consulting firm, or develop policy at a municipal Department of Aging or the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health in NYC.
For additional department-specific career paths, click on the departmental links above.