Public Health Epidemiologist II: Data & Surveillance Leader

State-of-Delawar; Smyrna (DE); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) in Delaware seeks an epidemiologist to work with program data, surveillance systems and epidemiologic databases to identify and respond to public health problems, especially in maternal and child health.

The role requires strong epidemiological and statistical analysis skills (SAS) and experience in program evaluation, data visualization (Power BI) and mapping (ArcGIS). On-call rotation with State Health Operations Center duties are included.

Qualifications

• Possession of a 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 public health problems.
• Six months experience in designing, conducting, and analyzing epidemiologic studies.
• 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 and assistance to agencies or organizations to control public health problems.

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 and trends.
• Maintains surveillance systems used to monitor disease trends.
• Makes recommendations for continuation or changes to operations, programs, services, policies or procedures.
• May participate on internal and external committees related to areas of expertise.

Skills

Epidemiologic methods

Data analysis

Surveillance systems

Public health problem identification

On-call rotation

Education

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

Tools

SAS

Power BI

ArcGIS

Job description

Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) in Delaware seeks an epidemiologist to work with program data, surveillance systems and epidemiologic databases to identify and respond to public health problems, especially in maternal and child health.

The role requires strong epidemiological and statistical analysis skills (SAS) and experience in program evaluation, data visualization (Power BI) and mapping (ArcGIS). On-call rotation with State Health Operations Center duties are included.