Public Health Data Analyst

Overview

Support data analysis, data quality, visualization, and epidemiologic activities for public health surveillance programs, combining quantitative analysis with an understanding of epidemiology, surveillance systems, and public health data.

What you'll do

• Monitor and analyze public health surveillance data using ESSENCE, R, and other analytical tools to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, data-quality issues, and potential public health events of interest.
• Support enhanced and time-sensitive surveillance activities, including analysis, reporting, and development or maintenance of analytical and dashboard products using CDC-provided formats and requirements.
• Contribute to reports, slides, dashboards, and other analytical products for CDC and response partners, working with senior epidemiologists and analysts as appropriate.
• Support the development, testing, and validation of syndrome definitions and surveillance categories, incorporating feedback from CDC subject-matter experts and STLT public health partners.
• Support analysis and reporting of emergency department data and additional public health data sources, such as NNDSS, commercial laboratory, Veteran's Affairs, and other data sources, as they are incorporated into surveillance activities.
• Take ownership of assigned analytical work, manage multiple priorities and short timelines, and communicate questions, issues, or risks as they arise.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Data Science, Informatics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field and 2-4 years of relevant professional experience in public health, epidemiology, healthcare data analysis, surveillance, or a related analytical field.
• 3+ years experience with either public health or syndromic surveillance, including ESSENCE or comparable surveillance systems; or 3+ years experience with analytical programming and data analysis using R, or comparable tools.
• Experience analyzing public health, epidemiologic, healthcare, or other complex datasets.
• Ability to take ownership of assigned work, manage competing priorities, and communicate questions or issues as they arise.
• Understanding of basic epidemiologic and statistical concepts.
• Experience cleaning, transforming, validating, analyzing, or visualizing data.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and documentation skills.
• Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience with syndromic surveillance and/or ESSENCE.
• Experience using R or other analytical programming tools for public health or epidemiologic analysis.
• Experience working with state, local, tribal, or territorial (STLT) public health agencies or their surveillance data, systems, or reporting activities.
• Master's degree in Epidemiology, Public Health, Biostatistics, Data Science, Informatics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
• Familiarity with healthcare and public health data standards or terminology, such as HL7, ICD-9/10, SNOMED, or LOINC.

Details

• Nationwide remote office (US99).
• Full-time employment.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States; not eligible for new H-1B visa sponsorship by ICF.