Epidemiologist III

Hsp Inc; Oklahoma; Remote; USD 48,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Basic Life Insurance

Basic AD&D Insurance

Voluntary Life/AD&D

401(k) plan

Dedicated Administrative Support Staff

Employee Assistance Program

Nurseline

Mental Health Support

Travel Assistance Program

Discount Programs

Wellness portal

Job summary

Healthcare Staffing Professionals seeks an Epidemiologist III to support cross-cutting infectious disease surveillance and data strategy. This senior, non-supervisory role focuses on advanced epidemiology, data quality, and surveillance system enhancements.

The position emphasizes collaboration with informatics and surveillance teams, CDC reporting, and national data initiatives. Remote work is offered with competitive hourly pay.

Qualifications

• Minimum of four years in public health informatics and infectious disease surveillance

Responsibilities

• Provides consultation on data analysis, visualization, and automation to standardize surveillance methodologies across programs
• Designs automated approaches to surveillance data management, analysis, visualization, and reporting
• Develops technical products using SAS, R, SQL, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Query, Excel, DAX, APIs
• Supports surveillance system design and maintenance through requirements, testing, data mapping, and implementation
• Performs advanced epidemiologic and statistical analyses to monitor trends and support outbreak response
• Mentors less experienced epidemiologists and leads complex surveillance projects
• Interacts with CDC and federal partners for required reporting and data requests
• Ensures data quality and timeliness across surveillance activities

Skills

Data analysis

Surveillance

Epidemiology expertise

Statistical analysis

Education

PhD in Epidemiology

DrPH in Epidemiology

Tools

SAS

R

SQL

Power BI

Power Automate

Power Query

Excel

DAX

APIs

Job description

Healthcare Staffing Professionals has an immediate need for a Epidemiologist III. The Epidemiologist III - Data Strategy, Cross-Cutting Surveillance, & Enteric Disease Surveillance is a senior, non-supervisory epidemiology position responsible for supporting cross-cutting infectious disease surveillance and data strategy (performed by Infectious Disease Systems and Tuberculosis Control [IDSC]) and enteric disease surveillance (performed by Infectious Disease Prevention and Response [IDPR]). This position is housed in IDSC and reports to the Infectious Disease Surveillance Officer. For duties related to cross-cutting surveillance and data strategy, this position works collaboratively with informatics specialists, surveillance system developers, and surveillance staff across infectious disease program areas—including IDPR, Sexual Health and Harm Reduction (SHHRs), and Tuberculosis Control (TB)-to provide advanced epidemiologic, analytic, and technical expertise to improve infectious disease surveillance data quality, analysis, modernization, automation, reporting, and surveillance system functionality. For duties related to enteric disease surveillance, this position works with IDPR investigation and surveillance epidemiologists supporting routine surveillance, outbreak detection and response, laboratory coordination, federal reporting, and interpretation of enteric disease data.

Pay Rate: $42/hr

Location: Remote

Job Duties:

• Provides consultation to program areas on data analysis, visualization, and automation to support standardization of surveillance methodologies across infectious disease program areas.
• Designs and implements reproducible and automated approaches to surveillance data management, analysis, visualization, and reporting.
• Develops technical products using tools such as SAS, R, SQL, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Query, Excel, DAX, APIs, and related technologies.
• Supports epidemiologically informed surveillance system design and maintenance through requirements development, business-rule design, testing, validation, data mapping, and implementation.
• Develops and conducts surveillance data-quality assessments and identifies systemic issues affecting completeness, validity, consistency, classification, timeliness, or reporting.
• Supports annual reconciliation, CDC reporting validation, historical data updates, and resolution of state-to-federal data discrepancies.
• Supports infectious disease program areas in preparing technical reports, surveillance summaries, dashboards, presentations, and other data products. May also lead the development of similar deliverables when the scope involves contribution from more than one program area.
• Serves as a senior technical resource, leads complex surveillance projects, and mentors less experienced epidemiologists without formal supervisory responsibility.
• Serves as a senior surveillance epidemiologist for enteric diseases, including routine surveillance, trend and cluster monitoring, outbreak investigation, and interpretation of epidemiologic, laboratory, and whole-genome sequencing data.
• Serves as a surveillance point of contact for CDC and other federal partners and supports required reporting, grant deliverables, national calls, data requests, and coordination with public health laboratory partners.
• Conducts advanced epidemiologic and statistical analyses to monitor infectious disease trends, identify emerging issues, support outbreak detection and response, and inform public health decision-making.
• Demonstrates knowledge of and supports mission, vision, value statements, standards, policies and procedures, operating instructions, confidentiality standards, and the code of ethical behavior.
• Works effectively in team environment, participating and assisting their peers.

Requirements:

• A minimum of four years' experience in public health informatics and infectious disease surveillance. OR
• A doctorate (PHD or DrPH) in epidemiology, and
• A minimum one year of qualifying experience in public health informatics and infectious disease surveillance.
• Basic Life: $25,000 (100% employer paid)
• Basic Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) : $25,000 (100% employer paid)
• Voluntary Life/AD&D: Additional coverage options available for employees, spouses and children (100% employee paid)
• Company 401(k)plans with eligibility from the 1 st day of the month following hire.
• Dedicated Administrative Support Staff

Additional Resources

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Counseling, legal consultations, financial planning, and identity theft recovery
• 24/7 Nurseline for health-related inquiries
• Rula Mental Health Support: Therapy and psychiatry services
• Travel Assistance Program: Medical support and emergency assistance while traveling
• BenefitHub and LifeMart Discounts: Access to discounts on travel, shopping, Pet Insurance, movie tickets, flight and more
• Access HSP's wide range of wellness resources through Anthem's wellness portal.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.

TrueBlue, Inc. And its brands welcome and encourage applications from candidates with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in the application or interview process. If you require disability-related accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact your recruiter directly, employee relations at [e-mail] , or 1-800-610-8920. TrueBlue, Inc. And its brands will consult with all applicants who request disability-related accommodation during the application or interview process to ensure that the accommodation provided takes into account the applications individual accessibility needs.

You must be work authorized in the United States on a full time basis without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future. The Company cannot offer employment to F-1 (student) visa holders who require sponsorship (including but not limited to STEM OPT extensions) in the future or cannot work now on a full time basis.