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Public Health Physician resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what public health physicians actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most public health physicians should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Public health physician with dual training in clinical medicine and population health, working across communicable disease control, surveillance and health policy. Experienced in leading outbreak investigations and turning epidemiological analysis into advice that governments and health services can act on. Registered medical practitioner and fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine.
Key skills
- Outbreak investigation and communicable disease control
- Epidemiological data analysis and study design
- Statistical modelling and interpretation
- Policy analysis and ministerial advice
- Program evaluation and health service planning
- Immunisation and screening program management
- Clinical assessment and treatment
- R
- SAS
- Stata
- Microsoft Excel
- ArcGIS
- Written communication and stakeholder management
Experience: example bullet points
- Led multi-agency outbreak investigations from first notification through to control and formal closure, coordinating public health unit staff, laboratories and local government.
- Redesigned the surveillance review process so that cases requiring escalation moved from notification to action in under two days instead of five.
- Built a reproducible R analysis pipeline for notifiable disease data, replacing manual spreadsheet reporting and freeing the team to spend its time on interpretation rather than assembly.
- Evaluated a regional screening initiative against coverage and equity measures, which led to changes in recall and reminder processes for people who had not been screened.
- Prepared briefings and options papers for senior health officials and ministerial offices, translating modelling uncertainty into clear, defensible recommendations.
- Provided public health advice through a respiratory season surge across a health service of several hospitals, supporting decisions on cohorting, testing access and bed management.
Education
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery or equivalent medical degree, followed by a Master of Public Health and supervised specialist training through the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (RACP), leading to fellowship.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- public health medicine
- FAFPHM
- Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine
- RACP
- AHPRA registration
- Master of Public Health
- MBBS
- communicable disease control
- notifiable diseases
- NNDSS
- CDNA
- National Immunisation Program
- Australian Immunisation Register
- outbreak investigation
- epidemiological surveillance
- contact tracing
- health protection
- population health
- screening programs
- health policy
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.