Public Health Epidemiologist II: Data & Surveillance

State of Delaware; Delaware; On-site; USD 72,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The State of Delaware, Department of Health and Social Services, seeks an Epidemiologist II to analyze program data, epidemiologic databases, and surveillance systems to address maternal and child health issues. Strong SAS and data visualization skills are required, with experience in program evaluation and mapping tools such as ArcGIS.

Ideal candidates will participate in on-call rotations, support the State Health Operations Center, and contribute to public health problem identification and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Life, Physical, Health Science or related field.
• Six months experience in using epidemiological methods to identify, study and control the incidence and distribution of communicable, chronic or environmental diseases or other public health problems.
• Six months experience in designing, conducting, and analyzing epidemiologic studies such as developing and testing a hypothesis by selecting cases and controls, determining information needed, data sources, sampling and collection methods.
• Six months experience in designing and using surveillance systems to monitor public health problems.
• Six months experience in inferential statistics such as correlation, t-tests, f-tests or analysis of variance.
• Six months experience in preparing statistical summaries and scientific reports.
• Six months experience in providing epidemiologic direction, guidance and assistance to state and federal agencies or public and private organizations to control public health problems affecting a population.
• Six months experience in managing budgets, grants or contracts.

Responsibilities

• Conducts epidemiologic investigations, descriptive studies or analytic studies.
• Identifies public health problems pertinent to the population and determines feasibility and approach for the study.
• Collects, analyzes and interprets data using statistical techniques to identify outbreaks, determine changes in trends and probable causes of epidemiologic problems; uses existing epidemiologic databases to analyze and interpret public health issues.
• Maintains surveillance systems used to monitor disease trends.
• Makes recommendations for continuation or changes to operations, programs, services, policies or procedures based on findings to promote and protect public health.
• May participate on internal and external committees and workgroups related to areas of expertise.

Skills

Epidemiology

Data analysis

Public health surveillance

SAS

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Life, Physical, Health Science or related field

Tools

SAS

Power BI

ArcGIS

Job description

The State of Delaware, Department of Health and Social Services, seeks an Epidemiologist II to analyze program data, epidemiologic databases, and surveillance systems to address maternal and child health issues. Strong SAS and data visualization skills are required, with experience in program evaluation and mapping tools such as ArcGIS.

Ideal candidates will participate in on-call rotations, support the State Health Operations Center, and contribute to public health problem identification and