We are seeking a Public Health Data Analyst to support data analysis, data quality, visualization, and epidemiologic activities for public health surveillance programs. This position combines hands-on quantitative analysis with an understanding of epidemiology, surveillance systems, and public health data.
The ideal candidate will bring a strong foundation in either public health surveillance, including syndromic surveillance and ESSENCE, or analytical programming and data analysis using R or comparable tools. This role offers the opportunity to apply those skills to meaningful public health surveillance work while developing additional expertise and working closely with project colleagues and clients.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor and analyze public health surveillance data using ESSENCE, R, and other analytical tools to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, data-quality issues, and potential public health events of interest.
- Support enhanced and time-sensitive surveillance activities, including analysis, reporting, and development or maintenance of analytical and dashboard products using CDC-provided formats and requirements.
- Contribute to reports, slides, dashboards, and other analytical products for CDC and response partners, working with senior epidemiologists and analysts as appropriate.
- Support the development, testing, and validation of syndrome definitions and surveillance categories, incorporating feedback from CDC subject-matter experts and STLT public health partners.
- Support analysis and reporting of emergency department data and additional public health data sources, such as NNDSS, commercial laboratory, Veteran’s Affairs, and other data sources, as they are incorporated into surveillance activities.
- Take ownership of assigned analytical work, manage multiple priorities and short timelines, and communicate questions, issues, or risks as they arise.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Data Science, Informatics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field and 2-4 years of relevant professional experience in public health, epidemiology, healthcare data analysis, surveillance, or a related analytical field.
- 3+ years experience with either public health or syndromic surveillance, including ESSENCE or comparable surveillance systems; or 3+ years experience with analytical programming and data analysis using R, or comparable tools.
- Experience analyzing public health, epidemiologic, healthcare, or other complex datasets.
- Ability to take ownership of assigned work, manage competing priorities, and communicate questions or issues as they arise.
- Understanding of basic epidemiologic and statistical concepts.
- Experience cleaning, transforming, validating, analyzing, or visualizing data.
- Strong