AI-Driven Public Health Surveillance Specialist

GAP Solutions, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

GAP Solutions, Inc. seeks a Public Health Surveillance AI Specialist to translate surveillance questions into AI use cases, assess outputs, and ensure scientifically sound, explainable AI solutions for disease surveillance.

You will collaborate with epidemiologists, data scientists, and engineers to operationalize AI capabilities that strengthen public health decision-making. You will stay current with AI advances in public health and contribute to evaluating tools such as event detection,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in biology, epidemiology, public health, microbiology, biostatistics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Apply biology, epidemiology, and public health surveillance expertise to the design and evaluation of AI-enabled surveillance solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate needs into AI use cases and analytical workflows.
• Evaluate AI and Generative AI tools for surveillance use cases such as event detection, case and outbreak summarization, information extraction, classification, trend identification, and evidence synthesis.
• Develop representative test scenarios and evaluation datasets using surveillance data, scientific literature, reports, and other relevant public health information.
• Assess AI outputs for scientific accuracy, completeness, relevance, consistency, hallucinations, bias, explainability, and appropriate use of supporting evidence.
• Support validation of AI-assisted workflows that use structured and unstructured public health data, including laboratory, case, syndromic, genomic, environmental, and other surveillance information as applicable.
• Work with AI and data engineering teams to improve prompts, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agents, knowledge sources, and evaluation methods based on public health domain findings.
• Document evaluation results, limitations, risks, and recommendations and communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Stay current with advancements in public health surveillance, epidemiology, biology, Generative AI, and responsible AI, and assess their applicability to public health programs.
• Engage in knowledge sharing and contribute to building a strong, collaborative team environment.

Skills

Public health surveillance

Biology

Epidemiology

Team collaboration

Communication

AI/ML understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in biology, Epidemiology, Public Health, Microbiology, Biostatistics, or related

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Python

R

SQL

Job description

GAP Solutions, Inc. seeks a Public Health Surveillance AI Specialist to translate surveillance questions into AI use cases, assess outputs, and ensure scientifically sound, explainable AI solutions for disease surveillance.

You will collaborate with epidemiologists, data scientists, and engineers to operationalize AI capabilities that strengthen public health decision-making. You will stay current with AI advances in public health and contribute to evaluating tools such as event detection,