GS 12/13 Positions, CDC Division of Overdose Prevention, Epidemiology, and Surveillance Branch

There are a few open GS 12/13 positions in the CDC Division of Overdose Prevention, Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch that could be a good fit for MPH or PhD-level epidemiologists. 

As a Epidemiologist you will:

• Identify and analyze public health issues and their impact on public policies or scientific studies or surveys
• Provide scientific advice and technical assistance to various public, private, and/or nonprofit health and/or health-related agencies and organizations
• Analyze study or project implementation procedures for improvement
• Prepare comprehensive reports of national surveillance system analyses which include discussion of substantive health issues and research objectives; assessment of the adequacy and quality of data used in the analyses; and explanation of the methodologies, results, and relevance to health issues as they relate to the epidemiological problem under study
• Participate in the syntheses of social science and epidemiologic data to be applied toward designing effective prevention programs and practice guidelines
• Work with public health officials and other scientists inside and outside of the agency to ensure that valid research findings are disseminated, used, and applied to prevention programs
• Disseminate results of research projects in a wide range of venues including publications, peer reviewed journals, summaries, manuscripts, and special reports
• Present results to the scientific community at professional meetings and conferences
• Perform other duties as assigned

For more information and the applications to these positions, please click here and here.