Healthcare Epidemiologist

About the role

The Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation is a Tribal health care organization serving nearly 30,000 people across rural, southwest Alaska. This position is based remotely.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and analyze data to understand the impact of healthcare services, policies, and delivery models on health outcomes.
• Provide scientifically robust data, reports, and analyses to identify service gaps, suggest improvement strategies, and monitor progress towards reducing the region's disease and injury burden.
• Work closely with the Outpatient Care and Village Health departments to provide scientific guidance and support.
• Evaluate program activities, recognize best practices, derive lessons learned, and facilitate program and policy enhancements.
• Partner with clinical staff, public health teams, and other key internal and external stakeholders to improve healthcare services and outcomes.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree or higher from an accredited college or university in epidemiology, public health, or healthcare administration.
• Direct work experience designing, analyzing, and conducting investigations to identify conditions affecting health outcomes, and using bio-statistics to evaluate data.
• Experience using RAVEN and PowerChart (desirable).
• Ability to communicate in Yupik or Athabascan (desirable).

Qualifications

• Superior verbal, written communication, and interpersonal skills, including active listening and emotional intelligence.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and the ability to use sound judgment when responding to client issues and concerns.
• The ability to use a computer for data entry and to generate survey reports with little or no clerical support.
• The ability to schedule; plan; and organize resources, information, and time.
• An understanding of the basics of disease transmission, the ethics around public health data collection and use, risk communication, cultural sensitivity, and the specifics of local processes and data collection for the effort.

Skills

• Superior verbal, written communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to use a computer for data entry and to generate survey reports with little or no clerical support.
• The ability to schedule; plan; and organize resources, information, and time.
• An understanding of the basics of disease transmission, the ethics around public health data collection and use, risk communication, cultural sensitivity, and the specifics of local processes and data collection for the effort.

Benefits

• Generous PTO – starting at 4.5 weeks per year, accrued over time
• Eleven paid holidays
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Retail plans
• Employee Wellness Center

Pay

• $65.32 per hour

Schedule

• Full time
• 40 hours per week