Epidemiologist

Job Title: Epidemiologist 2

Location: Nashville TN/Hybrid

Duration: 12 Month Assignment

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 inoffice days per month.

Job duties will include:

• Serving as the data manager for CDCs Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies Network (SETNET) grant.
• Providing quality assurance for SETNET data entered a REDCap specific project.
• Transmitting SETNET 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 grantrelated 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: Masters degree with experience equivalent to five years 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 problemsolving 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 nongovernmental entities
• Communicable disease surveillance experience at a local or state public health department
• Experience with the CDCdeveloped 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 communitybased organizations)