Senior Epidemiologist, NIEHS Literature Review (Proposal)

Core Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior epidemiology subject matter expert supporting systematic reviews, evidence synthesis activities, and health hazard assessments.
• Lead the evaluation and interpretation of epidemiologic studies examining associations between environmental exposures and adverse health outcomes.
• Design and contribute to systematic evidence maps, scoping reviews, systematic reviews, and evidence evaluation protocols.
• Conduct and oversee literature screening, data extraction, study quality assessment, risk-of-bias evaluations, and evidence integration activities.
• Apply epidemiologic principles and evidence evaluation frameworks to assess causality, strength of evidence, and potential public health impacts.
• Evaluate study design, exposure assessment methodologies, confounding factors, statistical approaches, and other elements influencing study validity.
• Collaborate with toxicologists, exposure scientists, pathologists, and statisticians to integrate human, animal, and mechanistic evidence into comprehensive health hazard assessments.
• Draft, review, and contribute to Technical Reports, Toxicity Reports, DART Reports, Immunotoxicity Reports, Research Reports, peer-reviewed manuscripts, and other scientific publications.
• Support scientific briefings, presentations, and interactions with the client federal partners, advisory committees, and external peer reviewers.
• Contribute to quality assurance activities to ensure scientific rigor, methodological consistency, and regulatory compliance across all project deliverables.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior epidemiologists, analysts, and research staff.
• Evaluate and utilize innovative approaches, including AI-enabled literature review tools, machine learning applications, natural language processing technologies, and data visualization methods to enhance evidence review and synthesis processes.
• Support project planning, technical risk management, and achievement of contract milestones and deliverables.

What We Value

• P5 level: Master's degree +15 years or PhD + 10 years of relevant experience.
• P6 level: Master's degree +13 years or PhD + 8 years of relevant experience.
• Education: Degree in Epidemiology, Environmental Health, Public Health, Biostatistics, Population Health, or a closely related scientific discipline.
• Experience: Demonstrated experience conducting epidemiologic research, systematic reviews, evidence synthesis, or environmental and occupational health evaluations; strong expertise in study design, causal inference, risk-of-bias assessment, and interpretation of epidemiologic evidence; experience evaluating observational studies, cohort studies, case-control studies, cross-sectional analyses, and environmental health investigations; knowledge of systematic review methodologies, evidence evaluation frameworks, and health hazard assessment approaches; experience integrating epidemiologic findings with toxicological, exposure, and mechanistic evidence; proven scientific writing experience, including peer-reviewed publications, technical reports, regulatory documents, or scientific assessments; strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills; experience working as part of multidisciplinary scientific teams; experience supporting NIEHS, NTP, EPA, CDC, NIH, FDA, or other federal health agencies; experience conducting quantitative evidence synthesis, meta-analysis, or advanced epidemiologic modeling; knowledge of statistical software and analytical tools such as R, SAS, Stata, or Python; experience with AI-enabled evidence synthesis, literature review automation technologies, or natural language processing tools.

What We Offer

• Ancillary Benefits: Comprehensive benefits, flexible schedules, and professional development.
• Market Competitive Salaries: Anticipated annual base salary range of approximately $109,898 to $190,000 and may vary by ten percent depending on candidate geographic location.
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