Leidos has opening for a Senior Biostatistician to work in in support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The position is located in Atlanta, GA and the duration is for 10 months.
Primary Responsibilities
Provide ad hoc analyses of surveillance data, analyses to support programmatic activities, and preparation of research papers or reports for publication and presentation. This project requires strong epidemiological, statistical, and SAS/R programming expertise.
This task requires:
Understanding and application of general and novel statistical approaches including multivariate techniques (logistic regression, generalized linear models, proportional hazards modeling);
Strong SAS programming skills;
Orderly management of microcomputer files in a Windows environment to develop databases and analysis programs for data analysis;
Provide leadership and direction of conceptual ideas in statistical analysis of large datasets;
Developing statistical reports and presenting data in Excel, particularly the ability to efficiently produce large complex Excel tables efficiently and reports from SAS in customized formats to fit the needs of periodic reports;
Using PROC REPORT and other report production features of SAS to produce excel files;
Importing, exporting, and manipulating data files, including recoding, transforming, and creating variables to accommodate analytic needs;
Preparing written reports and presenting at meetings;
Performing other analytical and data related duties, as needed.
Basic Qualifications
Masters with 8-10 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.
Preferred Qualifications
SAS Base Programmer certification;
SAS Advanced Programmer certification;
5-8 years of statistical programming experience using SAS or R, including SAS macro programming and design of data management systems for error checking and SAS report writing;
Technical experience with data management, dataset creation, data analysis and report generation;
Experience with large datasets;
Experience developing analysis plans and statistical reports;
Must be able to work independently, with minimal direction.
How to Apply
If you are interested in learning more about the above position, please email Anshuman Garg (Anshuman [dot] Garg [at] mastechdigital [dot] com) with an updated resume. Please be sure to include the following information in your expression of interest for this position:
A position for a Senior Educator is currently available for a highly talented and motivated individual to join our team in support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – COVID-19 Activation. This position is for fulltime employment with the ability to earn extra hours in support of this demanding response work. Initial location is in a telework role due to COVID-19 restrictions and is expected to transition to the Roybal Campus located in Atlanta, Georgia. This role is 100% at the customer’s location. Learn More about CDC and the COVID-19 Activation here.
The purpose of this position is as the Senior Educator supporting critical training of COVID-19 emergency response coordinators. It is one of five positions on a contracted COVID-19 Training Support Team.
A program has been established and this team will be responsible for conducting training, updating, and improving this program in coordination with both the CDC Division of Emergency Operations (DEO) and response leadership. Weekly training is the current intent under a DEO initiative called RELAy- Responder Education & Leadership Academy along with ready electronic references. The current training covers functional role and responsibilities, including the value response coordinators provide to Teams and Task Forces during the COVID-19 Activation. Additional topics include an overview on the response structure, first days as a Response Coordinator, EOMS (Emergency Operations Management System), and best practices to efficiently coordinate.
Responsibilities include:
Primary lead for design and development of instructional approaches and/or strategies to meet training requirements.
Production and execution of virtual learning programs (webinars, web-based training, and virtual conferences), in-person instructor-led training, user guides, faculty training scripts, blogs, and other related resources. Ensures adult learning principles are woven into all content
Develop in coordination with the instructional designer, discussion-based case study scenarios, participant handouts, read ahead material, and related ready reference products
Synchronizes integrity of task analysis, training hierarchies and requirements, instructional materials, and evaluation plans
Certifies CDC standards are met for all training, any clearance of materials is obtained, and products are 508 compliant.
Conducts training evaluation, analysis, and reporting.
Effective training for COVID-19 Activation Emergency Response Coordinators.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s in related field and 4+ years related experience required, or Master’s and 2+ years related experience; Masters is preferred
Must be U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain a National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI) clearance
Expertise in instructional design and curriculum support to include the ADDIE Model (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate)
Desired Skills and Experience:
Superior written and verbal skills. Must write succinctly and clearly and explain complex situations in plain English to technical and non-technical audiences
Strong abilities to develop educational products for in-person and virtual settings
Proficiency in multimedia/web e-learning development to include software packages such as the Adobe Creative Cloud
Master of Public Health (MPH)
CDC Experience
Experience supporting CDC activation activities
How to Apply
Click hereto read more about this position and other GDIT-CDC affiliated positions on their website, and apply!
Our project focuses on identifying environmental risk factors associated with fragile X-associated primary ovarian insufficiency (FXPOI). FXPOI, cessation of menses before age of 40, occurs in ~20-30% of women who carry a premutation (PM) form (55-200 CGG repeats) of the FMR1 gene. Why only some women with a PM suffer from ovarian dysfunction and others do not is unknown. To better understand this, we are conducting surveys on residential and occupational history and performing metabolomic analyses to identify environmental factors for age at menopause (AAM) in PM women. Identifying environmental risk factors or metabolites associated with AAM may lead to novel strategies for early detection, prevention and treatment.
Data collection has already begun for this project. Students will be involved in the analysis of the environmental data from residential and occupational surveys and the metabolomic data that will be generated from plasma samples.
Deliverables: Our goal with this project is to collect pilot data to submit a larger grant. We hope to be able to collect enough information from this pilot data to publish two papers: one on the occupational and residential history data and one on the metabolomic data. The data will be able to be summarized as a presentation or thesis, as needed, for students.
Preferred Qualifications
Proficiency in R and SAS is preferred. Experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data would also be helpful, but isn’t required. Preferred Departments: BIOS, EH, EPI.
Additional Information
We can provide desk space in Suite 300 of the Dental School (1462 Clifton Road), if needed, but students may work remotely if that is preferred.
This position is funded by the HERCULES Exposome Research Center. All HERCULES REAL students are expected to produce a deliverable (e.g., project summary or presentation, data analysis, or thesis) and write a short summary of their experience for the HERCULES website.
How to Apply
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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. At work in over 40 countries and 26 U.S. cities to restore safety, dignity and hope, the IRC leads the way from harm to home. The IRC in Atlanta office was established in 1979 and has resettled over 27,000 refugees from 50 countries into the Greater Atlanta area. As the largest refugee resettlement agency in Georgia, the IRC in Atlanta resettles an average of 1,000 refugees into Georgia annually and provides additional services and assistance to another 2,500 refugees and asylees.
Scope of Compliance and Data Work
The IRC in Atlanta relies on data to promote evidence-driven advocacy, to ensure our clients receive quality service and to show potential funders our work. The IRC also maintains a strict focus on file accuracy and compliance in relation to our existing state, federal and private grants.
Responsibilities
Work with Grant Compliance and Data Coordinator to provide analysis, evaluation, and oversight to ensure compliance within the IRC Atlanta office. Assist with administrative tasks, maintain monitoring & evaluations systems, and various other related duties
Essential Job Functions
Prepare and/or review information for internal and external stakeholders
Develop and modify policies/procedures/systems in accordance with government regulations and organizational needs and objectives
Assist in preparations for external monitoring visits, reviews and audits
Maintain compliance tracking metrics and databases monthly and generate reports
Help maintain file room order, file counts and general file preservation.
Requirements
Attention to detail, critical thinking skills and ability to work independently;
Good research, data management and statistical analysis skills;
Able to communicate professionally with internal and external stakeholders;
Experience working with Microsoft Office Applications, high proficiency in Excel and Word preferred
Background in social work or related fields preferred
How to Apply
Click here to learn more about the position and apply on Handshake
Join the Emory Global Health Institute on Wednesday, July 22 at 12:00 p.m. for a panel discussion on racism and global health. Our panel of experts will discuss the history of colonialism and neoliberalism, racism and implicit bias in healthcare, the call for anti-racism for global health professionals, and the role of academia in addressing racism as part of global health action.
Please join us for our third webinar highlighting the Department of Epidemiology’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic! We will be joined by Dr. Sam Jenness who will discuss network-based strategies for COVID-19 control.
This course considers public health aspects of preparedness and management of natural and man-made disasters, including hurricanes, floods, and biosecurity threats, with an emphasis on understanding their complexity and impact. The course is taught using texts, peer-reviewed articles, and presentations by top field experts. The course is designed to stimulate understanding and to encourage an exchange of ideas regarding lessons learned from the past and the implications for current and future polices and disaster planning.
5hr/week position, as opposed to the standard 6-10hr/week. See Handshake posting for more info.
Course Description:
This interdisciplinary course, examines how cities and neighborhoods can have both positive and adverse effects on human health, and produces recommendations to improve these outcomes. This seminar is an elective planning and public health course that explores the interconnections between these fields and equips students with skills and experiences to plan healthy communities. This course covers planning and public health foundations, natural and built environments, vulnerable populations and health equity, and health policy and global impacts. This course is cross-listed with the Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning program and is an elective course offered through the Emory Environmental Health department.
PRISM Health seeks a Research Data Analyst to provide data management and epidemiologic support to research projects focused on HIV prevention programs and app-based interventions as well as COVID-19 surveillance and research. In addition to database development/management, the individual would be responsible for development of data collection tools, performing QA/QC, exporting data, creating reports and conducting basic statistical analyses for epidemiologic studies in SAS and R. Individual will also be responsible for maintaining relationships with and providing services to external partners, including ad-hoc data requests, training, collaborating on study changes and tools, and presenting results.
Creates and maintains a data dictionary and meta data.
Supports efforts to ensure that data standards are developed and maintained.
Ensures that the uses of data through reports and queries are accurate.
Supports business and system re-engineering and architecture development to define future data needs.
Serves as an organizational consultant on matters relating to databases by providing expertise to assist users in meeting their needs.
Minimum Qualifications
Two years of experience in processes and standards related to data OR a bachelor’s degree.
Preferred Qualifications
Excellent working knowledge of SAS. Excellent working knowledge of R. Experience with other programming languages a plus.
Experience in generating SAS-based reports using a variety of methods (e.g., PROC REPORT, macros, ODS) and exporting those reports to other formats such as Microsoft Excel, PDF, and HTML.
Knowledge of web-based survey development
Experience in generating Tableau dashboards
Knowledge of government projects/functioning
Experience with various publicly available datasets
Outstanding organizational skills, ability to work with quantitative data, basic understanding of epidemiology and biostatistics, familiarity with epidemiologic/medical terminology
Ability to work independently to identify logic flaws, invalid responses, and other issues in web-based survey data and develop solutions for larger team
Able to handle multiple tasks at once; meet deadlines, familiar with databases, detailed, flexible, able to manage relationships
Demonstrated experience contributing data analysis to manuscripts and reports to funding agencies
Experience with work related to HIV, sexual minorities, and social/sexual behavior
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to foster a good working relationship on team and multisite studies
How to Apply
Click here to read more about this position and to apply online!
A position for one graduate student Teaching Assistant is available for 40 hours during July- early August to assist in course set up for Qualitative Data Analysis course.
TA duties include setting up canvas, developing online modules with instructor and administrative tasks. Must be familiar with canvas set up (modules, quizzes etc)
How to Apply
If interested, send an email to the instructor, Dr. Hennink at mhennin [at] emory [dot] edu. Feel free to contact Dr. Hennink for any questions about the position.
As usual, Emory EPI students have been hard at work this summer applying many of the lessons learned from their epidemiology methods courses and honing their analytical skill sets in action. However, with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the precipitous rise in cases throughout the United States, many students have seized the opportunity to immerse themselves in frontline public health work. Our students are leveraging their knowledge and experience, and utilizing them to contribute to real-time COVID response and monitoring, in many different capacities and with numerous organizations.
The Department of Epidemiology and the Confounder team are excited to showcase the exceptional work students are doing locally to respond to COVID and support communities during this time in a new #WeAreEmoryEPI series. Throughout this series we will be highlighting groups of students contributing to these efforts in unique ways, including: students working with the Fulton County Board of Health’s COVID pandemic response on teams led by Emory faculty, Drs. Neel Gandhi, Sarita Shah, and Allison Chamberlain; the outbreak response team conducting COVID testing and education activities in Hall County led by Dr. Jodie Guest; a student group that has organized personal protective equipment distribution at Black Lives Matter rallies and protests in Atlanta; a student led COVID journal club; and more to come.
For our first feature in this series, we spoke with three of the Emory EPI students working with the Fulton County Board of Health (FCBOH) COVID response efforts. These students are directly engaged in front line epidemiology work, employing analytic and communication strategies to understand COVID’s impact on the local community and put together reports for the public. The students’ work has been greatly appreciated by faculty and the FCBOH team, and their work has received some much deserved recognition from Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who recently tweeted several graphs produced by current EPI students and Emory EPI alumni in a recent Fulton Epi report.
— Keisha Lance Bottoms (@KeishaBottoms) July 12, 2020
This week we spoke with Carol Liu, Maret Maliniak and Dallas Rohraff about their experiences working with FCBOH.
Carol Liu
Maret Maliniak
Dallas Rohraff
Left: Carol is a rising second year PhD student who earned degrees in Biology and Epidemiology from MIT and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and worked in a range of field-based global health roles before coming to Rollins.
Middle: Maret is a rising third year PhD student, she received her MPH from Rollins in 2014, served as a clinical research coordinator at Emory’s adult cystic fibrosis clinic, and worked at the American Cancer Society then returned to Rollins to start her doctorate.
Right: Dallas is a second year of Global Epidemiology student, she studied Cellular and Molecular Biology at Grand Valley State University then worked in a medical research lab focused on autoimmune diseases at the University of Michigan before starting her MPH.
This summer Carol, Maret, and Dallas have played impactful roles supporting response teams of diverse public health actors, FCBOH epidemiologists, research staff, and Emory faculty and students. This has given them the opportunity to work in a fast paced environment, applying epidemiological methods in real-time analyses to respond to the ever-changing needs and challenges that arise in pandemic response. While many of their efforts have revolved around data collection, analytics, and surveillance activities, their work with FCBOH has underscored the importance of community engagement and the need for public health professionals to ground their work in the perspectives and experiences of the communities they seek to serve.
Q: Tell us about the team you have been working with this summer and what your role has been in the Fulton County’s response efforts.
Carol: About half of my work is dedicated to conducting case investigations. The other half is dedicated to producing analytics for Fulton County that describes trends in epidemiology of COVID-19 and key data-generating processes within the surveillance system. Recently, key information we’ve presented to the county is the changing age, race and geographical distributions among positive cases, somewhat parallel to national shifts. While information on the epidemiology of COVID-19 has received widespread scientific and media attention, information on the data-generating process itself can answer questions such as “what is the time delay between symptom-onset and the state receiving a case notification”, and is often important and valuable for the public health response.
Maret: I have had the pleasure of working with a group of highly motivated and driven students and staff from Emory and the Fulton County Board of Health led by Drs. Neel Gandhi, Sarita Shah, and Allison Chamberlain. I have had a small but important role conducting case investigations for those who have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Fulton County.
Dallas: I have been fortunate to be able to work remotely on a revised version of my APE, which originally included traveling to South Africa to conduct monitoring and evaluation of a TB transmission research study. I now split my time between this project and working with the FCBOH on their COVID-19 response. I conduct case investigations for the county and have recently joined the Emory and Fulton County Board of Health Data Analysis and Visualization Team. Both of these projects are comprised of many individuals from different areas in public health. Working on this diverse team has allowed me to strengthen my skills and explore many facets of epidemiological work in a professional setting.
Q: What do you enjoy most about the work you’re doing?
Carol: One of my favorite parts of the work is calling potential case contact, or persons under investigation (PUIs). It’s rare that I get to interact directly with the individuals served by our public health systems. Calling PUIs and speaking to individuals who have been personally affected by the epidemic has placed a face and humanity to the numbers I’m often tasked to crunch.
Maret: While COVID-19 has been devastating for so many and the case interviews can be difficult at times, I really enjoy doing them and being part of this process. They give you an insight into people’s experiences that you just can’t get from looking at data alone.
Dallas: Calling patients has been very grounding for me and provided me with the unique chance to better understand the public’s perspective on COVID-19. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with the FCBOH this summer. It not only has allowed me to build upon my skills in a professional setting, but also provided me with an opportunity to directly contribute to the public health efforts related to the pandemic.
Q: What have been some of the most interesting or challenging moments that you’ve experienced working on the response efforts?
Carol:Having worked extensively in global health, it’s certainly a change to be involved in a frontline so close to home. The opportunity to learn first-hand about the pieces that form the local-level response to a pandemic in the US has been invaluable for me. At the beginning, one of the challenges was understanding the needs of FCBOH to ensure our work would be synergistic with existing work and capacity at FCBOH.
Maret: I learn something interesting and have challenges every day I do calls, so it is hard to narrow it down. I have heard heartbreaking stories of how this disease can spread among multiple family members with some recovering quickly and others being hospitalized and fighting for their lives on a ventilator. I have also had people express their frustration at the response and demand that more be done. And then of course there are many who do not answer the phone or hang up when they hear why I’m calling, so we’re always facing challenges of incomplete data and how we can better reach people to get these important data.
Dallas: Working on the local response with FCBOH has taught me that one of the biggest challenges we face is the rapidity at which the response efforts must adapt. As the pandemic progresses and we learn more, we need to ask new research questions, adjust to different policies and procedures, maintain thorough data collection in light of new information, and more. We are constantly faced with new challenges that cause us to adjust our work to provide help where FCBOH needs it the most. I have learned the significance of being flexible, adaptable, and inquisitive as a public health student and future professional.
Stay tuned for our next feature in this series as we continue to showcase the exceptional work our students are doing putting their skills to use on the frontlines of today’s public health challenges.
2024 Charles C. Shepard Award Symposium May 8, 2024 at 12:00 pm – 1:15 pmzoom.us…
Online Location: https://zoom.us/j/96537866614The Charles C. Shepard Award is given to thegraduating masters student who is deemed bythe faculty to have prepared the most scholarlyresearch paper. Please join us to recognize andcelebrate this year’s finalists who will present aposter of their work.
RSPH Staff Council Presents: Cheers and Beers - Schoolhouse Edition May 16, 2024 at 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Networking and Special Event
Event Type: Networking,Special EventContact Name: Staff CouncilContact Email: rsphstaffcouncil@emory.eduRSPH staff and post-docs are invited to an evening of camaraderie and delicious bites, presented by the RSPH Staff Council. Space is limited. Watch your email for a link to RSVP.
The Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) July 15, 2024 – July 31, 2024
Conference / Symposium
Event Type: Conference / SymposiumSeries: The Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID)Speaker: Leaders in the FieldContact Name: Pia ValerianoContact Email: pvaleri@emory.eduLink: https://sph.emory.edu/SISMID/index.htmlThe Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) is designed to introduce infectious disease researchers to modern methods of statistical analysis and mathematical modeling.
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