Hispanic Leadership Development Fellowship, National Hispanic Medical Association

The Hispanic Leadership Development Fellowship Program is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health. The fellowship is offering current graduate students and recent graduates a paid 9-month leadership opportunity to prepare for career opportunities within public health agencies and increase awareness and competency in health equity knowledge and practice.

The National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) Hispanic Leadership Development Fellowship (HLDF) is a 9-month, in-person, paid fellowship program that pairs current masters level students or recent graduates (must have graduated within past 2 years) with an HHS agency in the DC/Metropolitan area.  The program will run from September 1, 2025 – May 29, 2026.

Program Components:

• Fellows will be paid a salary of $5,500 per month, for 9 months, working 40 hours per week
• Health insurance including medical, dental and vision, will be provided during the fellowship duration
• NHMA will only cover relocation travel costs associated with: 1) One round trip to and from the Washington, D.C. area, 2) Up to $575 and incidentals associated with one day of travel to and from D.C area.
• Fellows will be responsible for securing housing.
• Fellows will receive support from the NHMA Staff, host site mentors, and personal NHMA mentors
• Fellows will be required to participate in virtual and experiential learning activities throughout the 9-month program
• Fellows may have the opportunity to present their work at their Host Site placements & final projects to OMH and NHMA Leadership.

Criteria & Eligibility:

• Current master’s level student or have a graduation date from a master’s program within 2 years
• Strong interest in working in HHS
• Must be able to relocate to Washington, D.C
• Must be eligible to work in the United States
• Must be a current NHMA Member (Student membership $20)

Applications due March 10th, 2025. For more information and application instructions, visit the posting on 12Twenty.

NAC Laboratory and Safety Sciences Training Fellowship, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

NAC is seeking a qualified and motivated candidate for a Laboratory Safety and Sciences Training

Fellowship focused on developing skills and experience in conducting research and evaluation of poliovirus laboratory biosafety, environmental and containment projects. The fellow will participate under the mentorship of NAC staff to develop skills and experience in design of scientific project proposals, protocols, and data collection tools; conduct biosafety studies in laboratory settings; validate and analyze data collected; and develop presentations, reports, and manuscripts to disseminate results for poliovirus containment implementation. Anticipated projects include participation in laboratory studies, development and implementation of innovative science agenda, data collection and analysis for biosafety and environmental studies, surveys, emergency response and planning activities, and communications products.

Learning objectives include:

• Improve skills in project design
• Data collection tool development
• Data management and analysis methods
• Build professional networks and applied experience through collaboration with CDC staff and international and country partners in implementation of the WHO Global Action Plan IV standard for poliovirus containment
• Participate in online CDC-offered data collection and analysis trainings
• Participate in laboratory biosafety and environmental studies
• Participate in survey and surveillance activities
• Participate in emergency response and planning activities
• Participate in literature reviews and research agenda development aligned to strategic plans
• Gain experience in development of poliovirus containment products (e.g., presentations, reports, journal manuscripts)

Preferred skills:

•  Prior work experience in molecular, microbiological, or biomedical laboratories
• Interest in biocontainment and biosecurity
• Ability to collaborate with diverse internal and external partners
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Prior experience conducting data collection and management

Eligibility requirements:

Doctoral or Master’s degree received within the last 60 months preferred or currently pursuing

Disciplines:

•  Life Health and Medical Sciences
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Social and Behavioral Sciences
•  Public Health

For laboratory work, applicant must meet agency and site-specific occupational health program requirements, such as proof of vaccination. Anticipated travel: domestic, 10% or less

Location: Atlanta, GA. Workplace flexibilities: onsite at CDC and telework.

For more information and application instructions, visit the posting on 12Twenty.

Full Time Field Work Positions, Taimaka

Taimaka is an NGO that implements highly cost-effective acute malnutrition treatment for children in Northeastern Nigeria. They are expanding their work over the next three years to reach 75k children with severe acute malnutrition with the support of GiveWell. 

Taimaka is hiring for a few positions (in program design, M+E, and research) based in Gombe, Nigeria, to help drive their expansion. An ideal candidate will be smart, tenacious, and hungry early/mid career global health people to fill those jobs – people who want to live proximately, dig into the details, and get their hands dirty. Because Taimaka is a smaller, start-up style organization, the team believes these will be really great roles for people to grow in and gain field experience, because each role will touch on multiple streams of work.

For more information and application instructions, visit the job descriptions linked here.

Critical Care Medicine Research Coordinator, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Children’s of Atlanta is looking for a recent graduate or future graduate (with the potential for part time work until they graduate in May) for this position. They will be working in the Pediatric ICU with key focus on consenting and collecting data on an array of NIH and privately funded studies. They will talk with patients and families in difficult situations/cases, so the candidate must be prepared for these experiences. Studies include focuses on traumatic brain injury, intubations, PARDS, asthma, quality improvement initiatives, and ECMO.

If any questions arise, feel free to contact Natalie [dot] jordan [at] choa [dot] org. For more information and application instructions, visit the job posting linked here.

Epidemiologist, CDC NCHHSTP

The CDC National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP), Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP), Behavioral Science and Epidemiology Branch (BSEB), is recruiting for the position of Epidemiologist GS-0601-12/13 in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Epidemiologist will support efforts to strengthen and coordinate surveillance and preparedness activities in response to the development of antimicrobial resistance (AR) in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States for the Combating Antimicrobial Resistant Gonorrhea and Other STIs (CARGOS) Team.  

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the team lead with strategy development and implementation and oversee specialized activities within the AR-STI portfolio.
• Identify and analyze STD public health issues and their impact on public policies or scientific studies or surveys through scientific literature and data reviews.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on STI surveillance and epidemiologic activities, including program process and outcome monitoring, and data management and analytics use.
• Provide scientific advice and technical assistance on program operations to various public, private, and/or health-related agencies and organizations on surveillance and preparedness activities.
• Support advanced data science applications and routine analyses of annual profile trends.
• Analyze data and generate summaries and scientific reports.
• Disseminate analytic findings including interactive dashboard applications, web materials, presentations at scientific and professional meetings, and publications in peer-reviewed journals.
• Work collaboratively with other teams within the Division, Center, and across the agency.

Desired Qualifications:

• Minimum experience of 5 years in planning, managing, and analyzing epidemiologic studies, surveillance and/or surveys relating to public health programs.
• Familiarity with antimicrobial resistance and/or STIs.
• Experience in managing, linking, and re-structuring aggregate and patient-level datasets using SAS, R, SQL, or similar platform.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated collaboration skills to work with diverse stakeholders including health departments, develop recommendations, and operationalize decisions.

Applications are due December 17th, 2024. For more information and application instructions, visit the job posting.

Public Health Laboratory Fellowship Program, Association of Public Health Laboratories

The Public Health Laboratory Fellowship Program aims to strengthen laboratory systems and workforce needs by developing the next generation of public health scientists! Thus, the fellowship program will focus on training participants in alignment with established laboratory core competencies and offer experiential learning opportunities across laboratory science focus areas. 

Fellowship terms are one year, with a possible extension for a second year, depending on the fellowship and funding availability. ​​

APHL offers flexible start dates to meet fellow’s and mentor’s needs. ​

Fellows will work on projects specific to a laboratory science focus area that will support public health, One Health, and other initiatives. Below are examples of the different focus areas fellows could be matched with and placed into: 

CDC Biostatistics, Statistics, Mathematical Statistics for Respiratory Virus Epidemiology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/ORISE

CDC’s Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division (CORVD) in the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) is dedicated to development and advancement of biomedical research to “improve the health of people by preventing illness, disability, and death from respiratory viruses induced diseases through public health science and practice in the United States and globally”. The Biostatistics, Economics and Modeling (BEaM) Unit, works with epidemiologists and laboratory scientists in the Division’s four branches to adapt existing analytical methodology and develop new techniques for statistical analysis.

Research Project: The fellow will train with BEaM’s statisticians, economists, and modelers and collaborate with the branches in the Division in the area of study design and statistical analysis. The fellow will train in Mathematical Statistics, mentored by senior statisticians in BEaM and will collaborate with epidemiologists and laboratory scientists in CORVD’s four branches. The fellow will learn to apply Bayesian and frequentist analytical techniques, including conditional autoregressive random effects models and probabilistic multiplier models to estimate the burden of COVID-19, RSV, and other respiratory viruses in the United States. This will include collaborating with informatics specialists to automate processes. Various statistical methodologies, adapted from existing and newly developed methods, will be applied to explore the epidemiology and biological science of respiratory viruses, including examining and improving the understanding of viral interference between respiratory viruses. In addition to providing statistical analysis and modeling support, the fellow will gain hands-on experience in the areas of study design, data visualization, and the use of statistical software, as well as authoring and coauthoring publications.

Mentor(s): The mentor for this opportunity is Gordana Derado (uwx8 [at] cdc [dot] gov). If you have questions about the nature of the research please contact the mentor(s).

Anticipated Appointment Start Date: January 6, 2025  Start date is flexible and will depend on a variety of factors.

Appointment Length: The appointment will initially be for one year, but may be renewed upon recommendation of CDC and is contingent on the availability of funds.

Preferred skills:

• Strong background in statistics/biostatistics, including Bayesian statistics.
• Basic understanding of epidemiological methods 
• Experience with data visualization techniques and statistical methods used for analysis of high-dimensional data
• Programming skills to conduct statistical analysis e.g., in R, SAS, Python, Stata, Matlab, or other computational software.
• Familiarity with PowerBI or similar data visualization tools

Eligibility Requirements:

• Master’s Degree or Doctoral Degree received within the last 60 months or currently pursuing.
• Discipline(s):
  • Engineering 
  • Mathematics and Statistics 
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences 

Applications due December 6th, 2o24 and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. For more information and application instructions, please visit the job posting on 12Twenty. 

Epidemiologist 2, DeKalb Public Health

DeKalb Public Health (DKPH) is hiring an Epidemiologist to be based at Richardson Health Center in North Decatur. 

Job responsibilities:

Under supervision, plans, develops, and conducts epidemiologic investigations, surveillance and interventions limited in scope and/or complexity to determine the causes of diseases and implement methods of disease control. Collects, analyzes, and interprets statistical data and prepares epidemiologic reports. Assists with planning and conducting investigations of diseases. Performs formal case control and cohort studies of complex health issues. Provides related consultation to departmental staff and others. Designs, implements, and maintains disease surveillance. Collects, analyzes, and interprets statistical data and prepares reports. Provides training, technical assistance, and consultative services regarding epidemiology and the control of diseases. Serves as a point of contact for various personnel regarding moderately complex epidemiologic issues. Performs various duties in support of section operations. Develop policies and procedures for new and existing disease control programs.

Applications are due December 6th, 2024. For more information and application instructions, visit the job posting linked here.

Public Health Compliance Analyst, Guidehouse

Guidehouse is hiring a compliance analyst be based in the DC area. Analysts will assist in applying common best practices in performing monitoring and auditing activities for various Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) models/programs.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Participate in and/or lead meetings, identify areas of improvements, determine audit or monitoring requirements and support audit or monitoring activities as needed.
• Work closely with CMS model leads and project team to review participation agreements, document, update, and provide responses to model participants’ inquiries.
• Develop or assist with development of various written reports or project documents.
• Develop or assist with development of Standard Operating Procedures or Plans.
• Gather, review, and update existing and/or new requirements, specifications, business processes, make recommendations as needed and lead or assist with implementation of those requirements.
• Participate in the design, development, analysis, implementation/monitoring of system requirements and user testing, as needed.
• Conduct or assist with qualitative and quantitative analysis, environmental scans to support the various CMS models monitoring needs.
• Work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and other stakeholders to gather business processes, business requirements, identify and mitigate gaps and coordinate Change Request process as needed.
• Develop, update, and maintain excel trackers; use power queries to help support automation; apply business analytics skills to support the project as needed.

For more information and application instructions, visit the job posting linked here.