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Last Update: 11/21/2025
Your role’s AI Resilience Score is
55.3%
Median Score
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Evolving
Stable
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AI Resilience Report for
Epidemiologists
They study how diseases spread, find out why people get sick, and help create plans to prevent future outbreaks.
Summary
The career of an epidemiologist is labeled as "Evolving" because AI is increasingly being used to help with data-heavy tasks like spotting disease outbreaks and predicting contamination risks. While AI tools can speed up these processes, human epidemiologists are still essential for interpreting results, teaching others, and communicating with the public.
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The career of an epidemiologist is labeled as "Evolving" because AI is increasingly being used to help with data-heavy tasks like spotting disease outbreaks and predicting contamination risks. While AI tools can speed up these processes, human epidemiologists are still essential for interpreting results, teaching others, and communicating with the public.
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AI Resilience
All scores are converted into percentiles showing where this career ranks among U.S. careers. For models that measure impact or risk, we flip the percentile (subtract it from 100) to derive resilience.
CareerVillage.org's AI Resilience Analysis
AI Task Resilience
Evolving47.5%
47.5%
Microsoft's Working with AI
AI Applicability
Evolving40.9%
40.9%
Anthropic's Economic Index
AI Resilience
Evolving61.2%
61.2%
Will Robots Take My Job
Automation Resilience
Stable88.8%
88.8%
Medium Demand
Labor Market Outlook
We use BLS employment projections to complement the AI-focused assessments from other sources.
Learn about this scoreGrowth Rate (2024-34):
16.2%
Growth Percentile:
97.3%
Annual Openings:
0.8
Annual Openings Pct:
8.9%
Analysis of Current AI Resilience
Epidemiologists
Updated Quarterly • Last Update: 11/21/2025
State of Automation & Augmentation
In epidemiology, AI is often a helper for heavy data tasks. For example, systems like BlueDot and HealthMap use AI to scan online news and social media and can flag possible outbreaks days or weeks before a human spot the pattern [1] [2]. In food safety work, AI models can watch weather, supply-chain and other data to predict contamination risks [3].
Some labs even use automated analytics (for example, rapid genome scanning) to detect outbreaks much faster than by hand [1].
However, many core jobs still need people. Experts interpret the findings and decide what actions to take – for example, advising doctors, preparing reports, or explaining risks to the public. One analysis notes that AI’s promise is to save time so experts can spend more effort with people rather than on paperwork [4].
Health officials also say any AI alerts must be used under strong human oversight [5]. Skills like talking to community members, teaching others, and leading a team are hard to automate, so those parts of the job remain human.
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AI Adoption
Big health agencies like the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are already investing in AI for disease surveillance and efficiency [5], which could speed up adoption in public health. But new technology must prove its value. Building reliable AI tools takes time and money, and smaller health departments may not have the budget or technical staff to use them immediately [1].
People also worry about privacy and mistakes, so experts say AI’s suggestions should always be checked by human epidemiologists [5].
Overall, AI is expected to grow as a helpful tool for monitoring disease trends [1]. Importantly, human epidemiologists will remain needed for teaching others, interpreting results in context, and communicating with the public – tasks that AI cannot handle on its own [5] [4]. These human skills will stay valuable even as AI takes on more routine data work.
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Employment & Wage Data
Median Wage
$83,980
Jobs (2024)
12,300
Growth (2024-34)
+16.2%
Annual Openings
800
Education
Master's degree
Experience
None
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024-2034
Task-Level AI Resilience Scores
AI-generated estimates of task resilience over the next 3 years
1
Investigate diseases or parasites to determine cause and risk factors, progress, life cycle, or mode of transmission.
2
Plan and direct studies to investigate human or animal disease, preventive methods, and treatments for disease.
3
Plan, administer and evaluate health safety standards and programs to improve public health, conferring with health department, industry personnel, physicians and others.
4
Provide expertise in the design, management and evaluation of study protocols and health status questionnaires, sample selection and analysis.
5
Conduct research to develop methodologies, instrumentation and procedures for medical application, analyzing data and presenting findings.
6
Supervise professional, technical and clerical personnel.
7
Educate healthcare workers, patients, and the public about infectious and communicable diseases, including disease transmission and prevention.
Tasks are ranked by their AI resilience, with the most resilient tasks shown first. Core tasks are essential functions of this occupation, while supplemental tasks provide additional context.
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