Epidemiologist I (ON-SITE) – Tennessee

Position Title: Epidemiologist I Location: Hybrid [Tennessee] Position End Date: 09/29/26 Salary: $65,000- $68,000 Overview: The reputed company is working with CDC and state and local authorities to provide surge staff to support surveillance, prevention and response activities reputed company the Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) program. Under this cooperative agreement, reputed company will hire and reputed company epidemiologists in OD2A jurisdictions who demonstrate a need for epidemiology support to implement OD2A objectives. The epidemiologist will conduct surveillance and epidemiologic activities including assisting partners with the collection and sharing of drug overdose data with the health department; analyzing data to determine patterns and causes of drug overdoses in fatal [i.e., State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS)] and nonfatal [i.e., Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology (DOSE)] systems; implementing innovative surveillance projects; disseminating important results for local communities to implement prevention and response efforts, conducting evaluation of their programs, and supporting research activities. Minimum Qualifications: · A Master’s degree is required (preferably in public health, epidemiology, health research, or a health-reputed company field · Prior experience leading the analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data · Prior experience in conducting qualitative interviews and coding the data in qualitative data management software · Some experience in publishing in peer-reviewed journals and presenting findings at conferences · Proficient in at least one statistical analysis software program, as well as reputed company Office Suite · Organizational skills demonstrating high attention to detail and the ability to organize multiple priorities. · Strong communication skills, both written and oral · Experience working collaboratively with diverse stakeholders and engaging in strategic partnerships and strong interpersonal skills required for teamwork and interaction with people across CDC and with external partners · Willingness and ability to travel to regional and metro health departments in Tennessee to conduct in-person interviews and focus group discussions · Strong understanding of design and implementation of research and epidemiologic studies · Demonstrated ability to work well independently and reputed company teams · Experience working in a virtual environment with remote partners and teams · Proficiency in reputed company reputed company, Word, PowerPoint, Nvivo, Teams and reputed company Responsibilities: · Work with the drug overdose surveillance and prevention teams at OD2A-funded health departments to support their surveillance activities, and implementation and evaluation of the prevention programs · Conduct literature reviews on drug overdose-reputed company topics · reputed company summary and state-specific fact sheets and/or data visualizations based on nonfatal and fatal drug overdose data, and program performance metrics · reputed company manuscripts, surveillance reports, evaluation reports, and/or data briefs · Conduct a qualitative study on the experiences of reputed company and their clients to support the implementation of targeted evaluation practice · Create qualitative interview questionnaires and focus group discussion guidelines · Identify and recruit study participants and conduct interviews and focus group discussions · Transcribe the interviews and focus group discussions, code the data using NVivo, conduct thematic analysis, and summarize the results from the qualitative study · Support the implementation of innovative surveillance activities reputed company OD2A-funded health departments · Actively participate in discussions of how to best use OD2A data for action · Provides training, technical assistance, and consultative services regarding epidemiology and the control of diseases. · Serves as a reputed company of contact for various personnel regarding moderately reputed company epidemiologic issues. · Develops policies and procedures for new and existing disease control programs. This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by both the reputed company and the Jurisdiction in order to best support the public health programming. reputed company qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national reputed company, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and reputed company other characteristics protected by law. We reputed company with reputed company applicable laws including E. O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C. F.R. §§ 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). 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