About This Role
This Epidemiologist III role supports the CDC's Division of Bacterial Diseases, focusing on health scientist and epidemiology services related to Legionella. The work involves providing technical assistance to health departments, enhancing surveillance and reporting, and improving outbreak response for Legionnaires' disease.
Responsibilities
- Support technical assistance to the nation's health departments to detect, prevent, and respond to Legionnaires' disease, legionellosis outbreaks, and related atypical bacterial surveillance
- Build technical capacity with counterparts receiving ELC funding by contributing to responses for inquiries of suspect Legionnaires' disease and legionellosis, facilitating laboratory confirmation of isolates, following through on data submissions, and collaborating on field investigations
- Track Legionella case reports, including assessment of disease clusters
- Provide input into the development, review, and revision of data collection forms or surveillance protocols
- Analyze surveillance project implementation, and contribute to the measurement of surveillance, prevention, and/or coordination
- Perform statistical analyses and generate tables and figures summarizing epidemiologic analyses suitable for presentation, publication, and reporting as needed to support DBD activities
- Participate in the design and implementation of epidemiologic studies, which may include field/site visits, database creation, data entry, and management, and other tasks critical to the success of the surveillance
- Participate in the day-to-day work of the Legionella unit, including responding to public inquiries
- Communicate with staff at DBD and collaborators at health departments to optimize surveillance
- Attend weekly conference calls with sites, CDC team meetings, annual meetings, and other ad hoc meetings when necessary to provide information on current activities
- Manage or perform routine functions in epidemiologic and surveillance databases, which may include data cleaning, data management, analysis, and contribution to preparation of scientific articles and/or reports
- Provide epidemiologic technical assistance to state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments regarding Legionnaires' disease outbreak response and prevention and control activities
- Assist CDC epidemiology, environmental health, and laboratory Legionella SMEs in investigating and responding to outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease associated with cruise ships
Requirements
- Master's degree or Ph.D. in Public Health, Epidemiology, or a related discipline
- 5-10 years of experience
- Advanced skills in study design, data analysis, and interpretation of epidemiological data
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