Public Health Data Scientist: Data Analytics & Insights

DRT Strategies, Inc; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 54,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

DRT Strategies, Inc. is seeking a Public Health Data Scientist to join our team of analysts, epidemiologists, and developers. You will analyze, clean, and organize public health data, prepare it for visualization, and support surveillance systems using Python, SAS, R, or SQL.

You will access public health databases and geospatial data to derive insights and recommend data-driven solutions. A minimum of 5 years in public health data and the ability to obtain a U.S.

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

Geospatial Data

Data Cleansing

Python

SAS

R

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Public Health, or related field

Job description

DRT Strategies, Inc. is seeking a Public Health Data Scientist to join our team of analysts, epidemiologists, and developers. You will analyze, clean, and organize public health data, prepare it for visualization, and support surveillance systems using Python, SAS, R, or SQL.

You will access public health databases and geospatial data to derive insights and recommend data-driven solutions. A minimum of 5 years in public health data and the ability to obtain a U.S.