Epidemiologist (4214080)

About this position

This position is a part of a dynamic team and national network of individuals with a mission to gather, analyze, interpret, and disseminate environmental health data and information. You will use data to draw connections between health and the environment, build dashboards, and help inform educational outreach efforts. You will love this position if you are a technically minded individual who enjoys transforming data into action, and you want to help improve and protect people's health and quality of life. This position is in the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) program, which is funded by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Responsibilities

• Work independently and collaboratively on projects to identify, evaluate, and prevent public health impacts of exposures to environmental hazards
• Gather, analyze, and interpret environmental health data to draw connections between environmental exposures and disease
• Use mapping and statistical software to analyze, visualize, and display data
• Disseminate/communicate findings of environmental health evaluations/studies
• Manage environmental health grants and budgets, ensure grant deliverable progress, report grant progress to federal partners
• Plan, implement, and evaluate program activities related to prevention and control of harmful environmental exposures
• Work closely with diverse groups of people including scientists/experts in other programs/agencies

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree in public health or biological, physical, or environmental science
• Two or more years of relevant experience in surveillance, detection, prevention, and/or control of exposures and/or disease
• Experience with SAS or other statistical software and general programming techniques is desirable but not required
• Experience with data visualization and Geographic Information Systems (Tableau or ArcGIS) is desirable but not required
• Highly organized and detail oriented
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Substitution of education or experience may be considered
• Lack of post-secondary education will not be used as the sole basis denying consideration to any applicant

Benefits

• Defined pension plan
• Generous amounts of leave and holiday time
• Eligibility for health insurance coverage

Location: 930 Wildwood Dr., Jefferson City, MO, 65109

Contact: Susan Demsko, Susan.Demsko@health.mo.gov, 573-751-6272