As an Epidemiologist, you will need to master following:

• manage intellectual property rights
• operate open source software
• prevent communicable diseases' outbreaks
• project management
• take disease prevention measures

More generally, an epidemiologist is also versed in:

• apply for research funding
• apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
• apply scientific methods
• apply statistical analysis techniques
• biometrics
• communicable diseases
• communicate with a non-scientific audience
• conduct research across disciplines
• demonstrate disciplinary expertise
• develop professional network with researchers and scientists
• disseminate results to the scientific community
• draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
• epidemiology
• evaluate research activities
• gather experimental data
• increase the impact of science on policy and society
• interact professionally in research and professional environments
• manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
• manage open publications
• manage personal professional development
• manage research data
• mentor individuals
• perform project management
• perform scientific research
• preventive medicine
• promote inclusion in research
• promote open innovation in research
• promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
• promote the transfer of knowledge
• public health
• publish academic research
• report analysis results
• scientific research methodology
• speak different languages
• statistics
• synthesise information
• think abstractly
• think analytically
• write scientific publications

It also helps to know the following:

• SAS language
• analyse blood samples
• biological chemistry
• contribute to practice innovation in health care
• develop communicable disease control policies
• develop scientific theories
• develop vaccines
• microbiology-bacteriology
• professional documentation in health care
• advise on legislative acts
• apply blended learning
• archive scientific documentation
• assess environmental impact
• assist in clinical trials
• biology
• contribute to public health campaigns
• develop scientific research protocols
• educate on the prevention of illness
• general medicine
• immunology
• inform policy makers on health-related challenges
• laboratory techniques
• manage clinical risk
• manufacture medicines
• perform laboratory tests
• statistical analysis system software
• teach in academic or vocational contexts
• virology