Epidemiologist Job at ACL Digital, Nashville, TN

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  • ACL Digital
  • Nashville, TN

Job Description

Position Description:

The Viral Hepatitis (VH) Program within the Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness (CEDEP) division of the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) is currently hiring for an Epidemiologist 2 position. This is a contract position that currently requires 5 in-office days per month.

Job duties will include:

  • Serving as the data manager for CDC's Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies Network (SET-NET) grant.
  • Providing quality assurance for SET-NET data entered into a REDCap specific project.
  • Transmitting SET-NET data to CDC per protocol.
  • Developing data visualizations for internal and external partners.
  • Serving as the data liaison between TDH and CDC.
  • Supervising a Medical Records Abstractor as well as a Data Entry Specialist.
  • Requesting and maintaining access to electronic health records throughout Tennessee.
  • Conducting surveillance on hepatitis C, syphilis, and other emerging health threats on pregnant people and their infants.
  • Participating in grant-related conference calls, meetings, and site visits.
  • Conducting data analysis as needed for grant related meetings, trainings/technical assistance requests, and grant deliverables.
  • Assisting with viral hepatitis surveillance data entry and/or medical record requests, as needed.
  • Participating in grant development, writing, administration, and monitoring to ensure compliance with grant requirements.
  • Participating in development of the annual Viral Hepatitis Epidemiological Profile.
  • Assisting with the end of the year data validation and closeout as requested.
  • Responding to internal and external viral hepatitis inquiries as assigned.
  • Developing detailed procedural guides for all assigned tasks.
  • Additional tasks as assigned.

Epidemiologist 2 Minimum Qualifications:

Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a doctoral degree in epidemiology, public health, biostatistics, statistics, or health informatics

OR

Substitution of Education for Experience: Master’s degree with experience equivalent to five year’s work experience in epidemiology.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Knowledge of viral hepatitis, and maternal/child health
  • Supervisory experience
  • Experience writing statistical and analytical programming code in SAS
  • Data visualization (e.g., Tableau)
  • Experience leading projects with multiple partners and collaborators
  • Time management skills and proven ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously while completing projects within the allocated timeframes
  • Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, working both individually and as part of a team
  • Ability to work collaboratively across programs and interact with all levels of departmental staff, the public, and other governmental and non-governmental entities
  • Communicable disease surveillance experience at a local or state public health department
  • Experience with the CDC-developed National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Base System (NBS)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience developing, maintaining, entering, and extracting data from REDCap databases
  • Experience collaborating with internal and external partners (e.g., CDC, community-based organizations)

Job Tags

Contract work, Work experience placement, Local area, Currently hiring,

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