COVID-19 and Disabilities Fellowship, CDC

Description 

The Disproportionately Affected Population Team (CICP) is looking to hire ORISE fellows for two positions. The Disproportionately Affected Populations team focuses on: people who use drugs or have substance use disorder, people experiencing homelessness, people who are in correctional facilities, older adults and people with disabilities. 

One position is team-wide and one will serve in the Correctional Health Unit.  While experience working with these or other underserved populations is helpful, the most important qualification is an interest in health equity in the COVID-19 pandemic and willingness to learn. 

Characteristics of a successful applicant would include:

• Strong writing, verbal, and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in quantitative research (SAS, SPSS, R, SUDAAN or other statistical software familiarity a plus);
• Background/strong interest in epidemiology, health equity, and/or Disproportionately Affected Populations Team populations of focus (correctional health, health among persons experiencing homelessness or people who use drugs or have substance use disorder, older adults, or persons with a disability)
• Flexibility to a variety of duties to meet the needs of a fast-paced response team as the pandemic and its impacts continue to evolve
• Helpful additional skills could include: experience with infectious disease surveillance data or other large datasets; experience visualizing data in R, excel, Power BI, or Tableau; experience with qualitative methods 

Position-Specific Details 

Work of the team-wide position will be varied and may include:

1. Create regular situation reports on COVID-19 and disproportionately affected populations using available data sources and established methods 
2. Work with Disability unit on analyses of data on COVID-19 among persons with a disability with flexibility to support other units as needed 
3. Working under a mentor’s guidance to give technical assistance to a funded project to improve COVID-19 surveillance data for persons experiencing homelessness, persons with a disability, and those with a substance use disorder (this project has potential to impact equity of surveillance data for other conditions or future responses)
4. Become familiar with the data landscape on the response and work with team members to identify new and potential opportunities to enhance data and analyses on DAP populations of focus
5. Work directly with team leadership on team-wide operational needs, including responses to requests from taskforce, Incident Management, and CDC leadership.

Work of the correctional health unit position will be varied and may include:

1. Work with a mentor on assessment and improvement of correctional health data quality and identification of opportunities for improvement
2. Contribute to analytic projects working with available data on COVID-19 among persons who are incarcerated or detained and/or correctional staff
3. Work under a mentor’s guidance to give technical assistance to a funded pilot project to improve COVID-19 surveillance data for persons who are incarcerated or detained (this project has potential to impact quality of surveillance data for other conditions and/or future responses in this critical population)
4. Track technical assistance and other metrics of the unit and other operational needs of the unit, including responses to requests from taskforce, Incident Management, and CDC leadership.

Application Information 

• Application deadline: March 29th at 3:00PM (EST)
• Click here to read more about these positions and apply online! (Note: the applications link is for BOTH positions)