Epidemiologist

About the role

This is a full-time, FLSA-exempt position with Health & Human Services, located in Carson City, NV. The incumbent conducts disease surveillance, recommends disease control measures, evaluates public health data, and functions as a member of a multidisciplinary outbreak investigation and response team. This is a grant-funded position and continues as long as the grant is renewed.

Responsibilities

• Conducts disease surveillance and recommends disease control measures.
• Evaluates and investigates reports of unusual disease occurrence from laboratories, physicians, and others.
• Participates in field investigations at hospitals, physician offices, laboratories, clinics, food establishments, childcare facilities, correctional facilities, or other locations as necessary to complete epidemiologic investigations.
• Designs instruments for the collection and analysis of disease-related data.
• Collaborates with inter-disciplinary personnel from other departments and public and private agencies to coordinate and augment case findings and surveillance and risk reduction activities based on analysis using established parameters.
• Uses data from surveillance, investigations, or other sources to define and maintain databases and organize data for analysis and interpretation.
• Generates reports including progress reports of fieldwork.
• May provide training to staff, students, and volunteers.
• May conduct informational programs to assist health care professionals, educators, social workers, and members of other groups in understanding the problems of target groups.
• Applies principles of good ethical/legal practice as they relate to study design and data collection, dissemination, and use, including laws regarding confidentiality, privacy, and human subjects research, Institutional Review Board processes, and Public Records Act/Freedom of Information Act procedures.
• Conducts community health assessments to investigate specific agents that may impact health; designs data collection forms and enters data into computer.
• Conducts special projects as required.
• Responds to inquiries regarding state laws, regulations, policies, and procedures governing the investigation and reporting of acute and chronic diseases.
• Promotes and supports the overall mission of CCHHS by demonstrating courteous and cooperative behavior when interacting with customers and staff; acts in a manner that promotes a harmonious and effective workplace environment.
• Performs duties as assigned in the event of a public health emergency.

Qualifications

• A master's degree from an accredited U.S. college or university, or a certified foreign studies equivalency in public health with specialization in epidemiology, bio-statistics, or a related field.
• OR, a bachelor's degree from an accredited U.S. college or university, or a certified foreign studies equivalency in epidemiology, bio-statistics, public health, life science or related field, AND two (2) years of experience in a public health, medical, or community services agency, which must have included responsibility for designing instruments for collecting and analyzing epidemiological or demographic data, and interpreting findings pertaining to such data and disease investigation or interviewing clients and/or patients.

Skills

• Knowledge of literature sources pertaining to epidemiology and communicable disease control.
• Epidemiological trends and disease patterns, their characteristics, and possible causation.
• Statistical theory, concepts, techniques, and analyses used in epidemiological, demographic, health, and bio-medical research.
• Disease or injury surveillance methods.
• Review and evaluation techniques and methods.
• Methods of collecting, compiling, and analyzing statistical and other research data.
• Interviewing techniques.
• Computer programming and processing methods to generate, organize, and display a wide variety of complex statistical and other research data.
• Principles of good ethical/legal practice as they relate to study design and data collection, dissemination, and use, including laws regarding confidentiality, privacy, and human subjects research, Institutional Review Board processes, and Public Records Act/Freedom of Information Act procedures.
• Principles and practices of epidemiology and biostatistics.
• Principles and practices of disease investigation, surveillance, and response.
• Analysis of primary and secondary public health and clinical data.
• Database development, maintenance, and utilization.
• Principles and practices of preparing and presenting educational materials and programs.
• Computer applications related to the work.
• Correct business English, including spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• Principles and practices for serving as an effective project team member.
• Techiques for working with a variety of individuals from various socio-economic, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.

Benefits

To be determined based on the grant funding and applicable benefits package.

Pay

To be determined based on the grant funding and applicable pay scale.

Schedule

To be determined based on the grant funding and applicable work schedule.