Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

• Monitoring and reporting incidents of infectious diseases to local and state health agencies.
• Communicating researching findings on various types of diseases to health practitioners, policy makers, and the public.
• Educating healthcare workers, patients, and the public about infectious and communicable diseases, including disease transmission and prevention.
• Overseeing public health programs, including statistical analysis, health caring planning, surveillance systems, and public health improvement.
• Investigating diseases or parasites for determining cause and risk factors, progress, life cycle, or mode of transmission.
• Planning and directing studies for investigating human or animal disease, preventive methods, and treatments for disease.
• Planning, administering and evaluating health safety standards and programs for improving public health, conferring with health department, industry personnel, physicians, and others.