• Under limited supervision, the epidemiologist would have knowledge of advanced statistical methods to analyze, develop, implement, and promote new and creative strategies and solutions to address public health issues and challenges in a clinical research environment.
• Designs, manages, and evaluates large, state-level (group-randomized) controlled trial.
• Thoroughly understands and executes study protocols and procedures to ensure accurate and consistent collection of data.
• Provides technical expertise and advice on study design and data analysis using a variety of statistical methods.
• May provide assistance with interpretation of statistical analysis for peer review.
  Contributes to grant proposals, protocols, data analysis plans and management, reports, manuscripts, and presentation of study findings.
• May participate in peer-reviewed manuscript authorship and occasional travel to scientific conferences.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• A master’s degree in public health (epidemiology) or related research intensive field from an accredited school.
• At least one year of related experience, which could be classified as fellowships, research assistantships, or part-time research activities, is preferred.

The epidemiologist will be responsible for managing NIH and privately-funded research studies oriented in clinical epidemiology and health services research.

The candidate would work closely with the Director of the Emory Health Services Research (HSR) Center, a cooperative initiative of the departments of medicine and surgery of the Emory University School of Medicine, is committed to advancing healthcare access, quality of healthcare delivery, and health outcomes of patients and populations.

The center supports health services research studies that aim to enhance, improve, and revise healthcare systems so that they can perform at the highest quality and value and deliver the best patient outcomes. It aims to not only have an impact on Emory University and Emory Healthcare’s missions, but also create a paradigm for clinical/research institutions nationwide.

The HSR Center is designed to deliver patient-centered outcomes through the promotion of health services research that aligns academic research with clinical care delivery. Faculty experts in three major domains of health services research are a critical component of the center and serve as mentors and advisors to trainees and junior HSR faculty. These domains, or areas of concentration, are defined as patient-level, which is concerned with disease prevention and management; micro-system level, which understands the local provision of care; and macro-system level, which focuses on the healthcare delivery system.

The Director of the HSR Center has active funding in the area of health services research in kidney disease and transplantation, including the expansion of a national registry for early steps in transplant access and several large-scale pragmatic trials to reduce inequities in access to treatment for this patient population. The candidate would likely work on some of these projects, in addition to other research by faculty throughout the departments of surgery and medicine related to health services research.

Project areas may vary across patient populations or health systems and will likely include study design, data collection, implementing and analyzing pragmatic clinical trials and cohort studies, developing novel health care quality metrics, and leveraging big data/predictive analytics using machine learning and natural language processing. The assistant epidemiologist should be comfortable analyzing a variety of research datasets (national surveillance and administrative data as well as regionally collected data), contributing to study design, statistical interpretation and data management and analysis using SAS and/or R statistical software. The incumbent will also provide analytical support for presentations, abstract and peer-reviewed manuscripts, and grant writing. The work environment is a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, biostatisticians, epidemiologists, behavioral scientists, and data scientists.

This position may require the creation and management of IRB protocols and data use agreements for research studies, as well as supervising/mentoring graduate research assistants and interns. The associate will have numerous opportunities to present research findings through authorship in written manuscripts and via presentations at national conferences.

Highly Desired Qualifications

• Master’s of Public Health (MPH) in epidemiology, or a related field.
• The ideal candidate would have working knowledge of SAS and/or R (including data management, cleaning, and analysis experience), experience managing a multicenter research project in an academic or government setting, excellent attention to detail, maintain organization and prioritize tasks, and excellent communication skills to maintain collaborations and through scientific writing experience and oral presentations.
• Clinical, translational, health services research, or experience in applying scientific concepts in comprehensive program planning and implementation of large-scale research study.
• Strong interest in social epidemiology preferred.

Applicants should email their CV and list of references to Dr. Rachel Patzer at rpatzer [at] emory [dot] edu, by March 30^th, and apply to the position on the Emory website by clicking  HERE.