Epidemiologist

Summary

Minimum Starting Salary: $64,500.00 per year
Grant Funded Position - Position Dependent of Availability of Grant Funding

About the Role

The City of Waco seeks an infectious disease Epidemiologist committed to protecting and improving community health through disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, data analysis, and evidence-based public health practice.

Responsibilities

• Compiles, analyzes, interprets, investigates, and reports public health data for health research projects on the surveillance, detection and prevention of disease and public health crises.
• Manages public health surveillance databases and compiles data for technical reports for the Public Health District (PHD).
• Plans, organizes, develops, and coordinates the investigation and evaluation of the causes of undesirable health events such as death and disability.
• Conducts communicable disease investigations and develops public health preparedness strategies.
• Prepares and presents reports, statistical analyses, scientific papers, specific studies and trends in epidemiology and public health in order to assess the health needs of the community.
• Analyzes PHD disease trends and mortality and morbidity rates and develops comparison reports.
• Affords public education to residents on a variety of public health topics; establishes and maintains databases.
• Generates maps for study of population demographics and undesirable health events.
• Aids in public health program evaluation and planning; assists in the development of grant proposals.
• Aids in the design, implementation and analysis of health and human service surveys and other research projects.
• Affords technical skills and survey design assistance to PHD staff and representatives from other agencies.
• Might be required to respond after-hours, including holidays and weekends, in the event of a departmental or City-wide emergency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Biological Science, or a related science field and 2 years of professional experience in infectious disease epidemiology and surveillance; epidemiology, public health, or data/statistical analysis; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Qualifications

Commensurate with experience.

Skills

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Benefits

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Pay

$64,500.00 per year

Schedule

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