<p>I agree with NT2000’s points above. Without knowing the context, it sounds as though some government agency has classified one of their epidemiologist positions as a “public health analyst” for civil service/bureaucratic purposes. It truly does not have any intrinsic meaning to those of us in public health. I’m an epidemiologist who has worked in state health departments, for CDC, for USAID, and currently for a medical specialty society. In my day, there was no such thing as an undergrad major in public health. I was an international relations and economics double major, and went to grad school in public health because I was interested in public health issues in developing countries. Soon after beginning my master’s program in international health, I realized that I would come out of that program knowing a lot about international health issues, but ill-equipped to actually DO anything about them. So, I switched to epidemiology in order to develop a more tangible “skill set”, for better or worse. Best of luck.</p>