Data Analyst, CDC

Description 

The Global Immunization Division (GID) protects the health of Americans and global citizens by preventing disease, disability, and death worldwide from vaccine preventable diseases.  The Immunization Systems Branch (ISB) supports demand generation projects in primarily low- and middle –income countries around the world.  The second strategic objective of the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) is to reach and maintain a level of strong, self-sustaining demand for routine vaccination services where parents not only access these services but demand them as a right. 

The Vaccine Introduction (VI) team has become involved in outbreak response vaccination for several epidemic-prone diseases with increasing frequency. In the past two years, the VI team responses have included: yellow fever in Angola and DRC (2016); Ebola in DRC (2017-2020) with preparedness activities for Ebola vaccine use in Uganda, Rwanda, and South Sudan (2018-2020); cholera vaccination among the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh (2017, 2018); typhoid in Zimbabwe (2018); cholera in Zimbabwe (2018); and extremely drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid in Pakistan (2018).  The vaccine response to each outbreak has been different and varied.  For yellow fever in DRC, we evaluated the immunogenicity of the use of fractional dose vaccine for outbreak response during a global shortage of yellow fever vaccine.  We are also leading a study in Uganda looking at the immunogenicity of fractional one fifth- and one-half doses of yellow fever vaccine compared to full dose in children 9-23 month. GID has taken a substantial role working alongside the Ebola subject matter experts (NCEZID) in the pre-licensure use of Ebola vaccine for outbreak response. Currently we have new introduction work involving post-exposure prophylaxis for rabies vaccine, influenza vaccine among health care workers in low-middle income countries, and technical assistance for the introduction in low and low-middle income countries of the much anticipated Covid-19 vaccine. 

Potential Projects and Activities

• Data management and analysis of a pediatric randomized clinical trial of fractional dose yellow fever vaccine in Uganda
• Data management and analysis of an Ebola vaccine hesitancy survey in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (qualitative and quantitative components)
• Collaboration on implementation of special projects, such as the identification of barriers to Ebola or Covid-19 vaccine acceptance, and development of communication strategies to promote vaccine uptake and disease reduction
• Provide support to countries to introduce and strengthen COVID-19 vaccine introductions globally
• Support the strengthening of the implementation of national immunization policies and programs
• Provide training and support to improve data management and analysis skills or analysts and program managers in other countries
• Assist with development of new COVID-19 vaccine project protocols
• Assist in instrument design, data collection and implementation of new COVID-19 vaccine projects
• Developing data dashboards, presentations, and other technical resources for COVID-19 vaccine.
• Conduct literature searches using PubMed and other search engines
• Preparation of articles for publication in international professional journals and for presentation at international conferences

Required Experience and Skills

• A minimum of a master’s degree or higher in biostatistics or epidemiology
• Strong data management skills
• Previous experience analyzing large datasets
• Intermediate or advanced experience using statistical software (e.g., SAS, SUDAAN, R, GIS) and experience performing linear regression, logistic regression, ANOVA and other complex analyses
• Ability to with individually and with a team

Preferred Experience

• Experience with clinical trial data
• Experience with qualitative analyses
• Additional language skills

How to Apply 

To express interest in this position or to ask questions, please contact Reena Doshi at rdoshi [at] cdc [dot] gov.