PRAMS Data Manager, Utah Department of Health and Human Services

Do you want to help make a difference in maternal and infant health in Utah? Are you interested in public health epidemiology and data? The Utah Department of Health and Human Services, Maternal and Infant Health Program is looking for someone to manage data collection and perform data analysis for the Utah Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) and the Study of Associated Risks of Stillbirth (SOARS) projects.   

The person in this position will act as a steward for Utah PRAMS/SOARS data, conduct and coordinate research projects, and draft publications. The successful recruit will provide expertise in research design, analysis, and data needed to examine issues, trends, and program evaluations. This person will design, conduct and coordinate research projects. This position works with a minimal level of supervisory control, and errors in data/recommendations may have a significant impact on the agency. 

This is a working level research consulting position, and a successful applicant must have a wide range of knowledge of assigned subject matter.  

Principle Duties

The PRAMS Data Manager performs the following tasks:

• Implement  PRAMS/SOARS survey data processes according to project protocols

• Conducts analysis of PRAMS/SOARS survey data

• Writes or drafts technical reports, articles, or related material using PRAMS data and makes professional presentations. 

• Assures appropriate use of PRAMS/SOARS survey data. 

• Provides assistance to the program and office in developing research proposals and conducting analysis.

• Grant writing and project reporting. 

• Respond to data sharing requests

Ideal Candidate

The model candidate for this position is someone who has: 

• Master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, biostatistics or a related field or equivalent experience to a degree in a related field

• Experience performing complex research and program tasks requiring independent judgment

• Knowledge of biostatistics and epidemiology

• The ability to present data analysis in professional meetings

• Knowledge related to designing, conducting, and coordinating research projects, that use survey data

• The ability to communicate information and ideas clearly, and concisely in writing

• Have an interest in maternal and child health topics

• At least 3 years of experience in public health, epidemiology, biostatistics or a related field

• Proficiency in SAS or other statistical programs

• The ability to analyze issues and reach sound conclusions

For more information on the program please click here. 

Why work for the Utah Department of Health and Human Services?  
In addition to the rich benefits the State of Utah offers, the department offers:

• On-site fitness center for a minimal membership fee
• UTA Eco Pass at a discounted monthly rate
• Teleworking opportunities
• On-site day care center at the Cannon Health Building with First Steps Day Care – contact for rates and availability, 801-538-6996

For more information on the Utah Department of Health and Human Services, please click here.

Research Coordinator, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

The Research Coordinator will work full-time on an NIH-funded study that is currently enrolling South African patients who have drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). Patients are screened at the time they return to care after previously interrupting treatment, to determine if they have developed additional resistance to the drugs bedaquiline and clofazimine due to treatment interruption. This project is being conducted at multiple clinical sites across South Africa, and the Research Coordinator will visit the sites 3-4 times per year. The project is currently enrolling, with a target of 300 participants by the end of the study period. Clinical data is collected from participants during study visit interviews and from medical record abstraction. In addition, blood and sputum are collected from eligible participants at baseline, and diagnostic sputum specimens are obtained from local laboratories for study-related testing.

Responsibilities:

• Provide principal administrative and research support to the Principal Investigator (PI) in the administration and implementation of an NIH funded project being conducted at multiple sites in South Africa.
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the project with US- and South Africa-based investigators, data managers, study coordinator and clinical staff.
• Work with Principal Investigator (PI) to develop and update study protocols, including the data collection tools/case report forms (CRFs).
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for activities at each study site.
• Develop and monitor implementation of project work plans.
• Track screening, enrollment and follow-up data collection of study participants; prepare regular reports for the PI about participant recruitment and study-visit completion.
• Train and supervise South African study coordinator, research nurses and research assistants to ensure compliance to all aspects of the project protocols and national and international regulations. 
• Prepare agendas for and coordinate project meetings and phone calls. Write and distribute minutes from all meetings.
• Partner with Einstein REDCap team to develop and maintain study databases and securely store study data. 
• Oversee data collection by South African research staff and troubleshoot challenges that emerge. 
• Conduct quarterly site monitoring at the international study site(s). When international travel is not possible, quality control of CRFs will be conducted from the U.S. through review of scanned and emailed documents. 
• Assist in drafting data reports, preparing conference abstracts, and presentations related to the project.
• Prepare and submit ethics applications, including amendments and annual renewals to the Einstein Institutional Review Board (IRB); oversee ethics applications at all relevant site IRBs.
• Assist the PI in the management of the study budget, tracking of subcontract invoices from collaborating institutions. 
• Other duties as assigned.

Experience and Educational Background:

• Bachelor’s Degree in public health, clinical epidemiology or related field and 3-5 years of experience required. Master’s Degree preferred.
• At least two years of experience collecting data for human subjects research (e.g. conducting interviews, collecting biologic specimens, extracting medical records).  
• Experience with international research projects is preferred.

Skills and Competencies

• As part of a team, must be able to manage multiple tasks and priorities, work independently with minimal supervision, and adhere to study protocol.
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with database and statistical software (e.g., REDCap and SAS or Stata).
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills; detail oriented.
• Able to write scientific documents.
• Able and willing to travel internationally multiple times per year to study sites during 2-3 week trips, to support the needs of the project.

The interested candidates can send their resumes to Angie Campbell (angie [dot] campbell [at] emory [dot] edu).

Qualitative Data Analyst, CDC Foundation

The CDC Foundation seeks a Qualitative Data Analyst to support epidemiologic and surveillance activities related to maternal mortality prevention through the CDC’s Enhancing Reviews and Surveillance to Eliminate Maternal Mortality (ERASE MM) initiative. The qualitative data analyst will contribute to increased understanding of the multi- factorial contributors to pregnancy-related deaths at the national and jurisdiction- levels, and increased understanding of opportunities for prevention of future deaths. They will lead team-based qualitative analyses with CDC staff and external partners, utilizing data from the Maternal Mortality Review Information Application (MMRIA) and the Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System.

The successful candidate will be hired by the CDC Foundation and will be organizationally located with the Maternal Mortality Prevention Team in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Reproductive Health, Maternal and Infant Health Branch, Maternal Mortality Prevention Team.

This is an outstanding opportunity to work with the nation’s lead agency charged with protecting the public’s health. The CDC Foundation offers a competitive salary and attractive benefits package. This is a CDC Foundation position that will work directly with CDC. ** Please note that this position is contingent on contract award.** For more information, click here. Please apply by April 16, 2023. 

Engagement Manager, Panalgo

Influenza Sentinel Surveillance Epidemiologist, Georgia Department of Health

Job Responsibilities

Under supervision of the Acting Influenza Surveillance Coordinator, the Influenza Sentinel Surveillance Epidemiologist 1 will be responsible for providing epidemiologic support to respiratory disease surveillance activities including the recruitment of sentinel and enhanced influenza surveillance providers in Georgia and assisting on cross-cutting projects with internal teams at GDPH including the National Wastewater Surveillance System, COVID-19, and other respiratory disease teams.

The Influenza Sentinel Surveillance Epidemiologist 1 will be responsible for:

• Participating in the recruitment of sentinel and enhanced influenza providers for specimen testing.
• Coordinating the transportation of respiratory specimens to the GA Public Health Lab.
• Assisting with the review of medical charts for suspect influenza-associated deaths.
• Compiling data from CDC and electronic surveillance systems for the Georgia weekly influenza report.
• Communicate with external partners such as CDC, large hospital systems, and small healthcare clinics on projects contributing to influenza surveillance.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners including federal, state, and local entities on cross-cutting projects pertaining to respiratory disease surveillance.
• Providing epidemiologic support to respiratory disease outbreak investigations.

Minimum Qualifications

Master’s degree in Public Health or closely related field from an accredited college or university
OR 
Bachelor’s degree in any field from an accredited college or university AND Two years of experience performing epidemiologic work or work in a closely related field.

For more information and to apply, please click here. 

Senior Evaluation Manager, Institute for Public Health Innovation

IPHI is currently recruiting for a Senior Evaluation Manager (SEM) to support information-based decision making, measure and improve organizational and program performance, and foster evaluation business opportunities. The ideal candidate will be experienced in non-profit program evaluation, entrepreneurial, and energized by the opportunity to build the evaluation systems and capacities of a growing regional non- profit public health organization.

The Senior Evaluation Manager (SEM) will coordinate and support public health program evaluation and monitoring activities, including evaluation planning and design, collaboration with key stakeholders, data collection and analysis, data synthesis, and report writing and presentation with a commitment to equity, utilization-focused and community participatory evaluation strategies. This requires collaborating with team members and external partners on a wide range of diverse public health projects, from direct services to broad community-level policy and systems change initiatives. The Senior Evaluation Manager (SEM) will also lead evaluation training and capacity- building efforts across the organization and with project partners. The Senior Evaluation Manager (SEM) will play a key role in supporting overall organizational performance, such as through monitoring performance associated with IPHI’s strategic plan and conducting staff and business client surveys. Finally, the Senior Evaluation Manager (SEM) will assist in cultivating business opportunities by identifying and securing evaluation service contracts and contributing to evaluation design elements of grant proposals.

In addition, the Senior Evaluation Manager (SEM) will carry out a broad spectrum of evaluation work designed to help build IPHI’s capacity to improve and communicate the effectiveness of public health programs.

Primary Responsibilities: – Coordinate or advise monitoring and evaluation activities associated with IPHI programs, in close collaboration with team members, contractors, and partners. Lead and support the design, planning, logistics, and implementation of evaluation activities, including support of strategic plan metrics and monitoring. – Lead a broad range of survey development and implementation to support organizational and program development. – Guide the development and implementation of organizational and program quality improvement processes. – Support and lead organizational and community capacity building efforts, including trainings and workshops on topics relevant to monitoring, evaluation and learning. – Support the development and implementation of a variety of monitoring, evaluation, and learning processes and outputs related to data infrastructure systems, survey-building, evaluation plans, data visualization and organizational learning. – Work with other team members to translate evaluation and monitoring findings into organizational and program improvement. – Analyze quantitative and qualitative data, interpret statistics and draft findings, including data visualization. – Clearly communicate the results of analytical work to non-technical audiences in both written and oral communication. – Write summaries, case studies, evaluation reports, literature reviews, abstracts, and other content. – Assume a lead role in writing evaluation sections of grant reports and proposals. Contribute to the development of research and evaluation business opportunities.

COVID Postdoctoral Fellow, CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health

The CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health is recruiting an epidemiology postdoctoral fellow to work on COVID-19, mental health, and vaccine research areas, topics that are part of a large portfolio of research on the impacts of the US COVID-19 pandemic and public health response. The fellow will join a large team of investigators and staff that run the national CHASING COVID Cohort(C3) Study, launched in late March 2020, and on a new, cohort-linked three year NIH grant to test the efficacy of an intervention designed to increase vaccination among adults with depression and anxiety. Furthermore, there will be opportunities for mentorship by senior epidemiologists and public health scholars, first authorship on publications, and contributions to studies in development. The fellow would be expected to: 1) quickly become familiar with the study design and datasets being used in the Chasing COVID Cohort study; 2) rapidly conduct longitudinal analyses, draft, and publish papers, including first-authored papers, in peer-reviewed journals using data from the CHASING COVID Cohort and other related datasets; 3) lead, collaborate on, and support analyses and manuscripts being led by other members of the CHASING COVID Cohort investigative team; and 4) contribute to grant applications, as applicable and interested.

Stipend and time period: Post-doctoral fellow stipends range from $60,000-$85,000, depending on the number of years of post-PhD experience. With an expected hire date of Summer 2023, the 12-month position comes with a one year hire commitment, and further extension, depending on funding availability and performance. This can be a remote position, and visa sponsorship is available as long as the applicant currently resides in the United States.   Interested candidates should apply with a cover letter and resume.  

Minimum qualifications

• PhD in epidemiology, with a preferred focus on infectious diseases or mental health and epidemiological and biostatistical methods
• Excellent data management and analysis skills
• Ability to efficiently prioritize and execute projects independently and efficiently
• Excellent track record of first authored peer-reviewed publications (as appropriate for level of experience)
• Excellent written and verbal communicator
• Team player
• Experience with longitudinal data analysis
• Ability to review and write code in SAS (fine to primarily code in R but the team uses SAS and you must be able to operate with SAS)
• Data visualization experience
• Willingness to mentor epidemiology masters and doctoral students on analysis of CHASING COVID Cohort Study data

The CHASING COVID Cohort Study

For more about the C3 cohort, and to assess where applicants may be able to make contributions to future research, the following resources may be helpful:

1. Robertson MM, Kulkarni SG, Rane M, et al. Cohort profile: a national, community-based prospective cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic outcomes in the USA-the CHASING COVID Cohort study. BMJ Open 2021;11(9):e048778.
2. Press release covering the awarding of an NIH research grant to the CHASING COVID Cohort Study team to test an intervention aimed at improving COVID-19 vaccine uptake among people with anxiety or depression.
3. The CHASING COVID Cohort Study website, with links to recent papers and PDFs of all questionnaires.
4. The CHASING COVID COHORT Study team.
5. The CHASING COVID Cohort public use dataset: https://zenodo.org/record/6127735#.Y9B24i-B0uT

The  CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

The mission of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy is to provide a collaborative and accessible environment for excellence in education, research, and service in public health, to promote and sustain healthier populations in New York City and around the world, and to shape policy and practice in public health for all.

The CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH)

The CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH) was founded on the notion that substantial improvements in population health can be efficiently achieved through better implementation of existing strategies, policies, and interventions across multiple sectors. With that in mind, we study how to translate and scale-up evidence-based interventions and policies within clinical and community settings in order to improve population health and reduce health disparities.  The ISPH leads cutting-edge research across a range of topics, including health disparities, HIV, substance use, and mental health.  We utilize innovative methods, including large online national cohorts, discrete choice experiments, quasi-experimental methods, visualization dashboards, and cluster RCT / hybrid trials.

For more information and to apply, please click here. 

Mental Health Data Manager/Data Analyst, CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health

The CUNY ISPH has a rapidly growing COVID and mental health research portfolio.  We are recruiting for a data analyst who focuses on advanced epi methods and longitudinal data analysis.  The research analyst will primarily collaborate on our COVID and mental health research portfolio under the supervision of Dr. Denis Nash.  There will be opportunities to contribute to and advance future studies in development.

The position comes with a one year hire commitment, and further extension is dependent on funding availability and performance.  This can be a remote position, and sponsorship is available as long as the applicant is currently in the United States.  

Job Duties

• Oversee and create data management systems
• Rapidly lead analyses, draft, and publish papers in peer-reviewed journals
• Review the work of other analysts, advising on statistical methods and protocol where necessary
• Support analyses and manuscripts being led by other members of the investigative teams
• Contribute to future grant applications and funded projects, as applicable and interested

Required

• MPH in epidemiology, with a preferred focus on infectious diseases or mental health and epidemiological and biostatistical methods
• 2-3 years experience in an epi analyst position
• Experience with longitudinal data analysis
• Ability to review and write code in SAS (fine to primarily code in R but the team uses SAS and you must be able to operate with SAS)
• Ability to efficiently prioritize and execute projects independently and efficiently
• Excellent written and verbal communicator
• Team player

Annual salary range: $70,000-80,000

Interested candidates should apply with a cover letter and resume.

The mission of The CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy is to provide a collaborative and accessible environment for excellence in education, research, and service in public health, to promote and sustain healthier populations in New York City and around the world, and to shape policy and practice in public health for all.

The CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH) was founded on the notion that substantial improvements in population health can be efficiently achieved through better implementation of existing strategies, policies, and interventions across multiple sectors. With that in mind, we study how to translate and scale-up evidence-based interventions and policies within clinical and community settings in order to improve population health and reduce health disparities.  The ISPH leads cutting-edge research across a range of topics, including health disparities, HIV, COVID-19, substance use, and mental health.  We utilize innovative methods, including large online national cohorts, discrete choice experiments, quasi-experimental methods, visualization dashboards, and cluster RCT / hybrid trials.

Applied Public Health Informatics Fellowship, CSTE

APHIF is a 2-year fellowship funded by CDC in which recent graduates and early career professionals work in a state or local health agency under the guidance of two experienced mentors. Fellows work in a full-time role and will work on informatics projects at their host site. Some of the top benefits of this program, according to former fellows, are the mentorship, connection with their peer cohort, and flexibility to take on a variety of projects and expand their skill set. 

This fellowship is open to individuals who hold a masters or doctoral degree from an accredited academic institution. Those who will graduate in spring 2023 are welcome to apply! As a training program, this fellowship is particularly appropriate for recent graduates and early career professionals interested in work at the state or local level. Fellows must be US citizens or permanent residents. Individuals requiring a visa are not eligible for this program. Fellows receive a stipend (listed below), professional development funds, and relocation support.   

·       $55,505.84 for master’s level fellows  

·       $70,905.90 for doctoral level fellows 

To apply, please click here . The application has been extended to February 20, 2023. Questions may be directed to aphif [at] cste [dot] org 

Research Project Coordinator, RSPH Department of Infectious Diseases