This full time contractual position supports the Behavioral Health Administration’s (BHA) Office of Opioid Response Coordination’s (ORC) ability to design, conduct, analyze and disseminate epidemiological studies related to the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic in Maryland. The position specifically supports implementation of the annual study and report required by State Law (Chapter 211, 2018) on opioid overdose risk factors and the State’s efforts to reduce and prevent overdose deaths. The position will work with data, policy and program staff from state agencies and external contractors to assist the linkage of multiple datasets, design studies, conduct statistical analyses, prepare reports and assist with presentations, briefings and other approaches to disseminating findings.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: A Master’s degree in the field of Public Health from an accredited college or university with a minimum of three graduate courses in Epidemiology and one graduate course in Biostatistics.
• Experience: None.
• Note: Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in Health Care Science classifications or Clinical Lab, Medical Scientists, or Bio Medical Lab Officer specialty codes in the health research field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required education.

Desired Qualifications

The desired candidate should possess experience in the following: 

• Experience or education in the field of behavioral health (i.e. mental health and/or substance use disorders)
• Demonstrated ability to conduct quantitative data analysis using statistical software packages (e.g. SAS, SPSS or R)
• Knowledge of information systems that support the management and analysis of large datasets

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• Application deadline: 4/13/20 at 11:59PM