Remote Public Health Data Analyst - Surveillance & Visualization

ICF Olson; United States; Remote; USD 61,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The ideal candidate has solid experience in surveillance (including ESSENCE) or analytical programming with R, and will contribute to reports, dashboards, and validation of syndrome

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field and 2–4 years of relevant public health experience.
• 3+ years in public health or syndromic surveillance or 3+ years with R-based analysis.
• Experience analyzing complex health datasets.
• Ability to manage priorities and communicate clearly.
• 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 present findings to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze public health surveillance data using ESSENCE and R to identify trends and data-quality issues.
• Support surveillance activities, including analysis, reporting, and dashboard development using CDC formats.
• Contribute to reports, slides, and dashboards for CDC and partners with senior staff.
• Support development and validation of syndrome definitions and surveillance categories.
• Support analysis and reporting of ED data and other data sources as integrated into surveillance.
• Own assigned analytical work, manage priorities and timelines, and communicate risks.

Skills

Public health data

Epidemiology

Data visualization

R programming

Syndromic surveillance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Public Health

Master's degree in Epidemiology

Tools

R

ESSENCE

Job description

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

The ideal candidate has solid experience in surveillance (including ESSENCE) or analytical programming with R, and will contribute to reports, dashboards, and validation of syndrome