Job Title: Epidemiologist
Address: Nashville, Tennessee 37243
Duration: 12 Months
Comment: Preferred for employee to report to Nashville 5 days per month to align with our other Epidemiologists' schedules.
Position Description:
The Viral Hepatitis (VH) Program within the Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness (CEDEP)
Job duties will include:
- Serving as the data manager for CDC's Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies Network (SET-NET) grant.
- Providing quality assurance for SET-NET data entered into a REDCap specific project.
- Transmitting SET-NET data to CDC per protocol.
- Developing data visualizations for internal and external partners.
- Serving as the data liaison between TDH and CDC.
- Supervising a Medical Records Abstractor as well as a Data Entry Specialist.
- Requesting and maintaining access to electronic health records throughout Tennessee.
- Conducting surveillance on hepatitis C, syphilis, and other emerging health threats on pregnant people and their infants.
- Participating in grant-related conference calls, meetings, and site visits.
- Conducting data analysis as needed for grant related meetings, trainings/technical assistance requests, and grant deliverables.
- Assisting with viral hepatitis surveillance data entry and/or medical record requests, as needed.
- Participating in grant development, writing, administration, and monitoring to ensure compliance with grant requirements.
- Participating in development of the annual Viral Hepatitis Epidemiological Profile.
- Assisting with the end of the year data validation and closeout as requested.
- Responding to internal and external viral hepatitis inquiries as assigned.
- Developing detailed procedural guides for all assigned tasks.
- Additional tasks as assigned.
Epidemiologist 2 Minimum Qualifications:
Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a doctoral degree in epidemiology, public health, biostatistics, statistics, or health informatics
OR
Substitution of Education for Experience: Master’s degree with experience equivalent to five year’s work experience in epidemiology.
Desired Qualifications:
- Knowledge of viral hepatitis, and maternal/child health
- Supervisory experience
- Experience writing statistical and analytical programming code in SAS
- Data visualization (e.g., Tableau)
- Experience leading projects with multiple partners and collaborators
- Time management skills and proven ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously while completing projects within the allocated timeframes
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, working both individually and as part of a team
- Ability to work collaboratively across programs and interact with all levels of departmental staff, the public, and other governmental and non-governmental entities
- Communicable disease surveillance experience at a local or state public health department
- Experience with the CDC-developed National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Base System (NBS)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience developing, maintaining, entering, and extracting data from REDCap databases
- Experience collaborating with internal and external partners (e.g., CDC, community-based organizations)
