Health Scientist - Senior Associate

What You Will Do

Guidehouse is seeking a Health Scientist — Senior Associate to support a federal public health surveillance program focused on neurological conditions. This role will support scientific, epidemiologic, and surveillance activities that help a federal health client maintain, refine, routinize, expand, and disseminate population-based surveillance information. The Health Scientist will work as part of a multidisciplinary team supporting neuroepidemiology, surveillance science, data analytics, scientific documentation, dissemination, and research translation. The role will help translate complex evidence, data, methods, and analytic findings into high-quality scientific products that support public health decision-making, research, and practice.

Responsibilities May Include

• Support neuroepidemiology and surveillance science activities related to neurological condition surveillance, including Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, and potential future neurological conditions.
• Conduct systematic, targeted, and rapid literature reviews to support surveillance methods, case definition development, evidence gap identification, and research prioritization.
• Support the development, refinement, documentation, and application of case definitions, surveillance methods, abstraction tools, decision rules, and review protocols.
• Review, synthesize, and interpret scientific literature, surveillance evidence, analytic findings, and data outputs to support surveillance estimates and public health products.
• Support validation studies and other epidemiologic analyses, including interpretation of findings, review of analytic outputs, quality checks, and documentation of methods and limitations.
• Collaborate with data analytics, visualization, communications, clinical neurology, and program management teams to produce scientific manuscripts, reports, presentations, tables, figures, maps, dashboards, and leadership-ready summaries.
• Support development and maintenance of SOPs, technical documentation, code annotations, abstraction guidance, publication trackers, evidence tables, quality control documentation, and knowledge management materials.
• Provide review of scientific and technical deliverables to ensure methodological rigor, consistency, clarity, and alignment with client expectations.
• Support dissemination of surveillance methods, findings, and products through manuscripts, reports, conference materials, briefings, stakeholder materials, and web-ready content.
• Coordinate with project leadership, federal client staff, subject matter experts, and multidisciplinary team members to track priorities, resolve issues, and maintain timely delivery of high-quality work products.
• Mentor or guide junior staff supporting literature review, abstraction, evidence synthesis, documentation, and surveillance-related deliverables.
• Deliver high-quality client service in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while maintaining scientific accuracy, transparency, and reproducibility.

What You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in public health, epidemiology, health science, biology, neuroscience, psychology, health services research, statistics, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in public health, epidemiology, surveillance, scientific research, health sciences, evidence synthesis, or federal health consulting.
• Experience supporting public health surveillance, epidemiologic research, systematic reviews, evidence synthesis, scientific writing, or applied health research.
• Experience reviewing and interpreting scientific literature, methods documentation, analytic findings, and public health data products.
• Strong writing, editing, synthesis, and quality review skills, including the ability to translate technical content into clear scientific and programmatic deliverables.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, documents, and review cycles.
• Ability to collaborate with epidemiologists, analysts, clinicians, data scientists, communications specialists, and federal client stakeholders.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint or similar collaboration and documentation tools.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

What Would Be Nice To Have

• Master's degree or doctoral degree in public health, epidemiology, health science, neuroscience, biostatistics, health services research, or a related field.
• Experience supporting CDC, HHS, or another federal public health agency.
• Experience with neurological conditions, neuroepidemiology, chronic disease surveillance, claims-based surveillance, population health, or public health research.
• Experience supporting Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, dementia, epilepsy, ALS, or other neurological condition-related research or surveillance.
• Experience developing or applying case definitions, abstraction tools, systematic review protocols, evidence tables, data dictionaries, SOPs, or quality control processes.
• Experience preparing manuscripts, reports, abstracts, conference presentations, scientific summaries, or clearance-ready public health products.
• Experience working with claims data, electronic health records, public health surveillance data, or other large healthcare datasets.
• Familiarity with literature review or reference management tools such as DistillerSR, EndNote, Covidence, Zotero, PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with analytic tools or environments such as SAS, R, Python, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Databricks, or similar tools.
• Experience supporting interdisciplinary teams that combine scientific research, data analytics, visualization, communications, stakeholder engagement, and program operations.

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $89,000.00-$148,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

Benefits

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Basic Life & Supplemental Life
• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Student Loan PayDown
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
• Skills Development & Certifications
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
• Mobility Stipend