Most strategists should excel at:

• Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

• Teaching or training medical staff regarding preventive medicine issues.
• Documenting or reviewing comprehensive patients’ histories with an emphasis on occupation or environmental risks.
• Preparing preventive health reports including problem descriptions, analyses, alternative solutions, and recommendations.
• Supervising or coordinating the working of physicians, nurses, statisticians, or other professional staff members.
• Delivering presentations for laying or professional audiences.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of prescribed risk reduction measures or other interventions.
• Designing or using surveillance tools, such as screening, lab reports, and vital records, for identifying health risks.
• Directing public health education programs dealing with topics such as preventable diseases, injuries, nutrition, food service sanitation, water supplies safety, sewage and waste disposal, insect controlling, and immunizations.
• Performing epidemiological investigations of acute and chronic diseases.