ORISE, Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) CDC

OSH has a mission to develop, conduct, and support strategic efforts to protect the public’s health from the harmful effects of tobacco use. Priorities for the division, along with its partners, are to promote tobacco control interventions, including actions to prevent youth from starting to use tobacco, smoke-free environments, programs to help tobacco users quit, and steps to eliminate tobacco-related health disparities in different population groups. The Epidemiology Branch (EB) within OSH has broad responsibility for the Division’s evaluation, surveillance, and research activities. The Research Team, housed in the EB, is the center for the Division’s research activities and works closely with others in OSH to lead and support tobacco control and prevention research. The research team’s mission is to advance scientific evidence to eliminate the burden of tobacco use. We accomplish this through the application of behavioral, epidemiologic, and economic theories, methods, using qualitative and quantitative techniques.

The Research Team endeavors to:

· Provide research technical assistance to internal and external partners.

· Conduct impactful, high-quality research within the overarching impact areas identified by the Division and as described in Epi’s research agenda.

· Provide scientific support and key translation products for the Division’s funded programs

· Conduct systematic reviews on key topics

The ORISE fellow will support the multi-disciplinary Research Team within the Epidemiology branch that provides research support to grantees and partners, conducts research studies, and disseminates scientific information. The fellow will work on several high-priority projects including, but not limited to, doing literature reviews and analyses to understand the prevalence of youth and young adult tobacco cessation behaviors, and which cessation interventions are effective for these populations. The ORISE fellow may also help with ad-hoc analyses and analytic support as needed (e.g. for Surgeon General’s Reports, for congressional/external inquiries).

The fellow will gain experience by:

· Supporting the research work of the Division.

· Providing research technical assistance to internal and external partners.

· Participating in systematic reviews on key topics

· Analyzing data and dissemination results from key Division initiatives such as the National Youth Tobacco Survey and the National Quitline Data Warehouse.

Specific requirements for candidates for CDC OSH Surveillance team:

In general, the ORISE fellow searches, synthesizes and interprets information relevant to advance tobacco prevention and control efforts.  Reviews and analyzes studies and projects assessing public health issues related to tobacco prevention and control in order to make recommendations or processes, procedures and/or policies related to public health programs, practices and research. Communicates information to various audiences. Prepares scientific and other articles and technical reports for publication.

More specifically, the fellow will be trained in surveillance and evaluation, and provide analytic support related to critical priorities of the Office; the fellow will serve a key role in: conducting surveillance, analysis, and research; assist in developing data summaries/briefing documents, authoring (co-authoring) papers and other materials, and supporting activities with internal and external audiences to advance tobacco prevention and control efforts. The fellow will also support the three cycles of National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) – i.e., work on publications based on collected data from past year; day to day survey support for administration of current year’s data; help prepare the data collection of future years.

Desired skills:

1. Strong data analysis skills
2. Experience with following statistical tools: SAS and SAS-callable SUDAAN
3. Good writing skills

Stipend:

1. The initial stipend is determined primarily in consideration of the educational level obtained.
   1. Master’s degree = equivalent to GS-9 step 1
   2. MD/PhD/equivalent = equivalent to GS-11 step 1

MD/PhD equivalent with at least two years of related post graduate work will have a stipend equivalent to GS-12 step 1. Additional steps at this degree level may be added for related post graduate work experience up to a maximum of the equivalent of GS-12 step 4.  Specifically, MD/PhD equivalent with at least three years of related post graduate work will have a stipend equivalent to GS-12 step 2, at least four years GS-12 step 3, and at least five years GS-12 step 4.

How to apply:

1. Send CV to jze1 [at] cdc [dot] gov with subject line: “ORISE fellow candidate”
2. Go to: https://www.zintellect.com/, and register