Job Title: Epidemiologist
Duration: 12+ Months Contract
Shift Time: Day
Hours/Week: 37.5 hrs/week
Must-Have:
- Graduation from an accredited college or university with a doctoral degree in epidemiology, public health, biostatistics, statistics, or health informatics.
- Five years of work experience in epidemiology.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- The Viral Hepatitis (VH) Program within the Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness (CEDEP) division of the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) is currently hiring for an Epidemiologist 2 position. This is a contract position that currently requires 5 in-office days per month.
- Serving as the data manager for CDC's Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies Network (SET-NET) grant.
- Providing quality assurance for SET-NET data entered into a Redcap-specific project.
- Transmitting SET-NET data to CDC per protocol.
- Developing data visualizations for internal and external partners.
- Serving as the data liaison between TDH and CDC.
- Supervising a Medical Records Abstractor as well as a Data Entry Specialist.
- Requesting and maintaining access to electronic health records throughout Tennessee.
- Conducting surveillance on hepatitis C, syphilis, and other HealthCare Client threats on pregnant people and their infants.
- Participating in grant-related conference calls, meetings, and site visits.
- Conducting data analysis as needed for grant related meetings, trainings/technical assistance requests, and grant deliverables.
- Assisting with viral hepatitis surveillance data entry and/or medical record requests, as needed.
- Participating in grant development, writing, administration, and monitoring to ensure compliance with grant requirements.
- Participating in development of the annual Viral Hepatitis Epidemiological Profile.
- Assisting with the end of the year data validation and closeout as requested.
- Responding to internal and external viral hepatitis inquiries as assigned.
- Developing detailed procedural guides for all assigned tasks.
- Additional tasks as assigned.
Required Skills:
- Knowledge of viral hepatitis, and maternal/child health.
- Supervisory experience.
- Experience writing statistical and analytical programming code in SAS.
- Data visualization (e.g., Tableau).
- Experience leading projects with multiple partners and collaborators.
- Time management skills and proven ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously while completing projects within the allocated timeframes.
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, working both individually and as part of a team.
- Ability to work collaboratively across programs and interact with all levels of departmental staff, the public, and other governmental and non-governmental entities.
- Communicable disease surveillance experience at a local or state public health department.
- Experience with the CDC-developed National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Base System (NBS).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience developing, maintaining, entering, and extracting data from Redcap databases.
- Experience collaborating with internal and external partners (e.g., CDC, community-based organizations).
Required Education:
- Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master's degree in epidemiology, public health, biostatistics, statistics, health informatics, health science, biomedical science, or environmental science field with experience equivalent to two years' work experience in epidemiology
- A Master's degree in public health or other quantitatively based social science education is desirable.
- Public health experience is a plus.
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