Environmental Consultant, Florida Department of Health

This position is responsible for providing advanced technical and consultative services for community planning and assessment activities, environmental epidemiology programs, county health departments, and other units as assigned by the supervisor. This position is primarily responsible for supporting the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program, management and analysis of health and environmental outcome data, and consultation on associations between health and environmental exposures. The position is also involved in planning and implementing investigations pertaining to health outcomes associated with exposure to environmental contaminant or hazards. In this position, the incumbent will:

Identify, assemble, and manage data sets related to health outcomes associated with environmental exposures, health outcomes, and social determinants of health. Use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for mapping, analysis, and visualization of public health data. Work with the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) project staff to analyze the data to produce rates, indicators, and other analysis needed for grant deliverables.

Assist county health departments and other agencies or entities, as assigned by the supervisor, in the conceptualization, development, and interpretation of health data and studies designed to determine if the health of the public is adversely affected by exposure to environmental contaminants or hazards. Provide technical and consultative services in developing epidemiological and GIS capacity for local partners and other public health stakeholders.

Coordinate outreach and partnership building with other agencies, County Health Departments, universities and other potential partners both in Florida and nationally. Ensure ongoing communication and follow up on county health department projects to track the use of data and services provided by the EPHT program. Periodically evaluate the protocol for providing technical and consultative services (epidemiologic and GIS methods) to county health departments and other agencies or entities and make recommendations for improvement to supervisor as necessary.

Serve on and lead national and state workgroups or committees related to environmental epidemiology as needed, including participating on conference calls and boards.

Review annual EPHT data updates and the implementation of new public health measures. Work with environmental epidemiology staff and subject matter experts to confirm unexpected data trends. Coordinate with state and national partners to develop messaging and resources for EPHT data measures.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

This position requires working knowledge of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Qualifications:

Minimum –.

Preferred – This position requires a Master’s degree in public health, statistics, environmental science, or related field.

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Epidemiologist II: Cardiac Epi, GA Department of Health

As an accredited public health department, we’re seeking a highly qualified candidate for the position of Epidemiologist II: Cardiac EPI located in Atlanta, GA to join the Division of Health Protection, Epidemiology Section. Won’t you join us?    

Job Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Georgia Coverdell Acute Stroke Registry (GCASR) senior epidemiologist, the Cardiac Epidemiologist 2 will be responsible for providing epidemiologic support; developing and conducting epidemiological investigations, surveillance and interventions as well as implementing and evaluating EMS performance measures related to cardiac conditions using EMS data and the designated Emergency Cardiac Care Center hospitals data. This position will monitor data using the statewide Georgia Cardiac Registry (GCaR) and Georgia Emergency Medical Services Information System (GEMSIS). Additionally, this position will analyze and interpret data related to Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) and ST Elevated Myocadial Infarction (STEMI) cases, respond to inquiries about OHCA and STEMI data.

The Cardiac Epidemiologist 2 will be responsible for:
 

• Evaluate and summarize cardiac epidemiological, operational and programmatic data from designated Emergency Cardiac Care Centers (ECCCs) and EMS responses.
• Analyze and interpret quantitative and qualitative statistical data.
• Coordinate with internal team members and external partners to create epidemiological programmatic reports.
• Summarize and present cadiac epidemiological data utilizing tables, graphics, and other reports as needed.
• Lead discussions with internal and external partners to summarize clinical, operational, and programmatic data and explore strategies to improve reports and /or processes.
• Provide consultation on data collection, organization, and analytic practices to the department staff and others.
• Assist in developing recommendations for data-driven, evidence-based interventions, policies, and control measures in response to epidemiologic findings.
• Evaluate effectiveness of strategies implemented.
• Prepare written reports, factsheets, infographics and presentations that communicate necessary information to staff, the public, and partners.
• Assist with implementation, maintenance, and evaluation of cardiac surveillance systems.
• Identify surveillance needs; and provide consultation of data collection, organization, and analytic practices to internal and external partners.
• Provide epidemiologic input into epidemiologic studies, public health programs, and community public health planning processes.
• Conduct data linkage with various public health data sets such as Hospital Discharge and Mortality Data.
• Conduct Geocoding and produce map on as needed basis.  

Minimum Qualifications

Master’s degree in Public Health or a closely related field from an accredited college or university AND Two years of experience performing epidemiologic work or work in a closely related field
OR
Bachelor’s degree in any field from an accredited college or university AND Three years of experience performing epidemiologic work or work in a closely related field
OR
Two years at the lower level (HCP180) or position equivalent.

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Epidemiologist II:EMS Epi, GA Department of Public Health

As an accredited public health department, we’re seeking a highly qualified candidate for the position of Epidemiologist II: EMS EPI located in Atlanta, GA to join the Division of Health Protection, Epidemiology Section. Won’t you join us?     

Job Responsibilities

• Analyze and interpret quantitative and qualitative statistical data derived from EMS response data.
• Evaluate and summarize EMS epidemiological, operational and programmatic data from EMS responses.
• Coordinate with internal team members and external partners to create epidemiological programmatic reports.
• Summarize and present EMS epidemiological data utilizing tables, graphics, and other reports as needed.
• Provide consultation on data collection, organization, and analytic practices to department staff and others.
• Assist in developing recommendations for data-driven, evidence-based interventions, policies, and control measures in response to epidemiologic findings.
• Evaluate effectiveness of strategies implemented.
• Prepare written reports and presentations that communicate necessary information to staff, the public, and partners.
• Identify surveillance needs; provide consultation of data collection, organization, and analytic practices to internal and external partners.
• Assist with implementation, maintenance, and evaluation of EMS surveillance systems.
• Provide epidemiologic input into epidemiologic studies, public health programs, and community public health planning processes.
• Strong oral and written communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Lead discussions with department managers and agency directors to summarize epidemiological clinical, operational and programmatic data and explore strategies to improve reports and/or processes.

Minimum Qualifications

Master’s degree in Public Health or a closely related field from an accredited college or university AND Two years of experience performing epidemiologic work or work in a closely related field
OR
Bachelor’s degree in any field from an accredited college or university AND Three years of experience performing epidemiologic work or work in a closely related field
OR
Two years at the lower level (HCP180) or position equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MPH or MSPH, awarded by an Association of Schools of Public Health accredited program, with a concentration in Epidemiology or at least 24 credit hours in epidemiology and biostatistics
• At least two years of experience performing epidemiologic activities.
• Strong Analytical skills 
• Experience working with statistical software such as SAS, SPSS, R, STATA etc…
• Experience working with GIS software such as ArcGIS
• Strong writing skills/experience writing reports and/or scientific articles
• Relevant knowledge of job area indicated by at least 3 graduate-level credit hours or one year of work experience in that area.

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ORISE Position, Enteric Disease Laboratory Branch at the CDC

Synopsis
Working on the bioinformatics of cgMLST and nanopore in the Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch at CDC.

Project description
The mission of EDLB is to lead the preparedness and response to foodborne and diarrheal diseases in the United States and abroad by facilitating laboratory detection, identification, and characterization of foodborne bacterial pathogens. The selected participant will be trained in a team of expert bioinformaticians to help create and run workflows. These workflows include, but are not limited to, Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) assembly and core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST). In this role, the fellow will work as a part of a multidisciplinary team to develop, maintain, and support bioinformatics applications and systems used in CDC’s national foodborne illness surveillance program.
The fellow will apply their training to design and develop genome analysis tools. Successful workflows will be used in EDLB and the broader CDC scope but may also be deployed to public health labs for characterizing bacterial pathogens.

Learning objectives
• Developing and implementing bioinformatics tools for analysis of bacterial whole genome sequences
• Performing quality control, assembly, annotation, and analysis of genetic subtyping data
• Preparing data for submission to public repositories including NCBI
• Developing and documenting standard operating procedures for bioinformatics analysis pipelines and workflows

Preferred skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Team player
• Experience scripting in at least one language (Python, perl, R, or shell preferred)
• Comfortable working in a highly interdisciplinary environment
• Familiarity with the following is helpful but not required
– UNIX command line bioinformatics tools
– Medium to large code bases
– High Performance Computing (HPC) environments
– Docker, Singularity, and/or Conda platforms
– DSL languages (Nextflow, etc)
– Modern development operations (DevOps) tools such as git

Education
• Degree requirement: Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree received within the last 3 years
• Suggested Discipline(s):
o Computer, Information, and Data Sciences
– Computer Science (general)
– Data Science
– Software Engineering
o Life Health and Medical Sciences
– Bioinformatics
– Biology (General)
– Computational Biology
– Epidemiology
– Evolutionary Biology
– Microbiology
– Population Medicine, Public Health and Epidemiology

Contact Lee Katz <gzu2 [at] cdc [dot] gov> for more details and/or for submiting a cover letter and CV for consideration.