Remote Public Health Data Analyst (Surveillance)

ICF; Fairfax (VA); Remote; USD 61,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF is seeking a Public Health Data Analyst to support data analysis, quality, visualization, and epidemiologic activities for surveillance programs. The role blends quantitative analysis with epidemiology, surveillance systems, and public health data to deliver dashboards and analytic products for CDC and partners.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with ESSENCE or analytical programming in R, and can manage multiple priorities while communicating findings to technical and nontechnical

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Public Health or related quantitative field with 2–4 years in public health data analysis or surveillance.
• 3+ years experience with public health or syndromic surveillance (ESSENCE) or 3+ years experience with analytical programming and data analysis using R.
• Experience analyzing public health, epidemiologic, healthcare, or other complex datasets.
• Ability to take ownership of assigned work, manage competing priorities, and communicate questions or issues as they arise.
• Understanding of basic epidemiologic and statistical concepts.
• Experience cleaning, transforming, validating, analyzing, or visualizing data.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and documentation skills.
• Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze public health surveillance data using ESSENCE, R, and other analytic tools to identify trends and data-quality issues.
• Support surveillance activities and develop dashboards and reports for CDC and partners.
• Contribute to reports, slides, dashboards, and other analytic products for response partners.
• Assist in developing, testing, and validating syndrome definitions and surveillance categories.
• Support analysis and reporting of ED data and other sources incorporated into surveillance activities.
• Own assigned analytical work, manage multiple priorities and communicate risks as they arise.

Skills

Data analysis

Epidemiology

Surveillance systems

Public health data

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Data Science, Informatics, Statistics

Master's degree in Epidemiology, Public Health, Biostatistics, Data Science, Informatics, Statistics

Tools

R

ESSENCE

Job description

ICF is seeking a Public Health Data Analyst to support data analysis, quality, visualization, and epidemiologic activities for surveillance programs. The role blends quantitative analysis with epidemiology, surveillance systems, and public health data to deliver dashboards and analytic products for CDC and partners.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with ESSENCE or analytical programming in R, and can manage multiple priorities while communicating findings to technical and nontechnical