Epidemiologist 2

Job Duties

• Serving as the data manager for CDC's Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies Network (SET-NET) grant.
• Providing quality assurance for SET-NET data entered a REDCap specific project.
• Transmitting SET-NET data to CDC per protocol.
• Developing data visualizations for internal and external partners.
• Serving as the data liaison between TDH and CDC.
• Supervising a Medical Records Abstractor as well as a Data Entry Specialist.
• Requesting and maintaining access to electronic health records throughout Tennessee.
• Carrying out surveillance on hepatitis C, syphilis, and other emerging health threats on pregnant people and their infants.
• Participating in grant-related conference calls, meetings, and site visits.
• Conducting data analysis as needed for grant related meetings, trainings/technical assistance requests, and grant deliverables.
• Assisting with viral hepatitis surveillance data entry and/or medical record requests, as needed.
• Participating in grant development, writing, administration, and monitoring to ensure compliance with grant requirements.
• Participating in development of the annual Viral Hepatitis Epidemiological Profile.
• Assisting with the end of the year data validation and closeout as requested.
• Responding to internal and external viral hepatitis inquiries as assigned.
• Developing detailed procedural guides for all assigned tasks.

Minimum Qualifications

• Educational Requirement: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a doctoral degree in epidemiology, public health, biostatistics, statistics, or health informatics.
• Or Substitution of Education for Experience: Master’s degree with experience equivalent to five years’ work experience in epidemiology.

Desired Qualifications

• Knowledge of viral hepatitis, and maternal/child health.
• Supervisory experience.
• Experience writing statistical and analytical programming code in SAS.
• Data visualization (e.g., Tableau).
• Experience leading projects with multiple partners and collaborators.
• Time management skills and proven ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously while completing projects within the allocated timeframes.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, working both individually and as part of a team.
• Ability to work collaboratively across programs and interact with all levels of departmental staff, the public, and other governmental and non-governmental entities.
• Communicable disease surveillance experience at a local or state public health department.
• Experience with the CDC-developed National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Base System (NBS).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience developing, maintaining, entering, and extracting data from REDCap databases.
• Experience collaborating with internal and external partners (e.g., CDC, community-based organizations).