Epidemiologist - AWARE

About This Role

This role as an Epidemiologist provides crucial support to a government customer, focusing on data processes within the Aero-Medical Waiver Division. The position involves developing expertise in data interpretation, creating and maintaining data pipelines, and assisting with investigations and the analysis of waiver risk evidence. It suits an epidemiologist with strong analytical skills and experience in health data.

Responsibilities

• Develop, retain, and provide expertise in the Aero-Medical Waiver Division’s data processes to support interpretation and access to these databases
• Create, maintain, validate, operate, and repair a data pipeline from the Aeromedical Waiver Division (AMWD) to a secure location in the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Application Virtualization Hosting Environment (AVHE), ensuring data quality, promptness, accessibility, compliance, and security
• Assist in the development of investigation plans, determining what is feasible and appropriate for investigations based upon the quality and quantity of available data, and its accessibility
• Assist the AMWD in interpreting and accessing the data products produced by the Analysis of Waiver Risk Evidence (AWARE) team, including publications, dashboard products, and when feasible in compliance with HIPAA and data use agreements, data sets
• Perform under guidance validation and verification protocols, to ensure that the products of the pipeline are as expected, and assist in performing corrections, in the event of models failing to perform to standard
• Assist in the drafting of written communication for internal and external purposes
• Participate and provide expert advice in interdisciplinary planning and analysis
• Acquire data access permissions necessary to perform stated tasks
• Use Air Force medical records systems and standards in performance of job duties
• Use all relevant data repositories as part of work, or which are generated in pursuit of work
• Collect data from various databases, pursuant to agreements with database owners
• Provide conference support assistance by active participation in professional conferences, preparation of posters and presentations, and publication of peer-reviewed manuscripts to support distribution of study product
• Brief study findings at appropriate meetings or forums, as determined by the Government
• Provide technical automation support for all versions of Microsoft (MS) Windows, MS Office (e.g., MS Access, MS Excel, MS Publisher), MS SQL, and Adobe
• Provide data creation and administration in support of model development, analysis, and publication
• Document products for the actual computer code used in order for government personnel to access these files for review, approval, or for generating copies as required. All requirements shall be prepared in accordance with USAFSAM programming standards and standard commercial practices inclusive of any/all procedures implanted as part of this task