Public Health Data Scientist: Advanced Health Analytics

DRT Strategies; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 111,751,000 - 149,001,000; Full time

Job summary

DRT Strategies, Inc. is seeking a Public Health Data Scientist to work with public health data analysts, coordinators, and developers.

You will analyze, clean, organize, and provide recommendations on data for surveillance systems using Python, SAS, R, or SQL to prepare data for visualization and interaction. You will access public health databases and data flows to import, structure, and encode data, supporting analyses by applying analytics and programmatic methods to derive actionable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Public Health Data.
• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Public Trust clearance.
• Experience in data related roles.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement advanced data management systems design, or redesign, to utilize new technology.
• Gathers, analyzes, and cleanses public health and geospatial data sets.
• Applies analytical, statistical, and programmatic approaches to data.
• Develops, codes, tests, and maintains database programs.
• Maintains data integrity by working to eliminate redundancy.
• Research and enable processing of structured and unstructured data to derive patterns, trends, and correlations and to enable entity extraction, disambiguation, common operating picture solutions, visualization, and other data-related support.
• Implements improvements to data entity extraction, entity resolution, pattern extraction, link analysis, human and social-network links/connections, cloud online analytical processing, data frameworks, visualization support, and related algorithms.
• Creates, modifies, and maintains software capabilities that extract insight from data, to include information, software applications, machine learning models, automation, and other software components.
• Stays informed of the ways the organization uses its data and recommends emerging techniques and technologies to enhance data use.

Skills

Public health data

Data analysis

Geospatial data

Data cleansing

Education

Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Public Health, or related field

Tools

Python

SQL

SAS

R

Job description

DRT Strategies, Inc. is seeking a Public Health Data Scientist to work with public health data analysts, coordinators, and developers.

You will analyze, clean, organize, and provide recommendations on data for surveillance systems using Python, SAS, R, or SQL to prepare data for visualization and interaction. You will access public health databases and data flows to import, structure, and encode data, supporting analyses by applying analytics and programmatic methods to derive actionable