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The EPA National Student Services Contract has an immediate opening for a full time Health Data Curator at EPA position with the Office of Research and Development at the EPA facility in Washington, DC.
The Office of Research and Development at the EPA supports high-quality research to improve the scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues and help EPA achieve its environmental goals. Research is conducted in a broad range of environmental areas by scientists in EPA laboratories and at universities across the country.
What the EPA project is about
EPA's Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) is a leader in the science of human health and ecological risk assessment, a process used to determine how pollutants or other stressors may impact human health and the environment. The Center occupies a critical position in EPAs Office of Research and Development (ORD) between researchers in other parts of ORD and outside of EPA who are generating new findings and data and the regulators in EPAs program and regional offices who must make regulatory, enforcement, and remedial action decisions.
CPHEA addresses the needs of stakeholders by preparing technical reports and assessments that integrate and evaluate the most up-to-date research. These products serve as a major component of the scientific foundation supporting EPA's regulations and policies. CPHEA also conducts cutting-edge research to develop innovative methods and approaches that help extrapolate between experimental data and real-world scenarios, improve our understanding of uncertainties, and facilitate careful weighing of evidence.
The Integrated Health Assessment Branch (IHAB) is primarily responsible for developing the Integrated Science Assessments (ISAs) on the human health and welfare (e.g., ecological, climate, visibility, and materials) effects of the criteria air pollutants including particulate matter, ozone, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and lead as mandated by the Clean Air Act. These highly influential science assessments form the scientific basis for the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. CPHEA assessments have significant implications for national and international environmental policy development and implementation.
Development of ISAs to draw conclusions on the health effects related to ambient air pollution exposure includes the identification, evaluation, and integration of evidence from the peer-reviewed literature, particularly from epidemiology, controlled human exposure, and animal toxicological studies. In developing ISAs, hundreds of thousands of references are identified in literature searches, and after screening and evaluating, more than a thousand references are included in these scientific documents. To effectively manage such a vast body of references, CPHEA developed the Health and Environmental Research Online (HERO) database and has more recently started exploring tools to improve efficiency (e.g., SWIFT-ActiveScreener) and adapt state-of-the-art systematic review methodologies to the assessment process.
Responsibilities:As a team member, you will provide technical assistance in a variety of tasks involved in the development of the Integrated Science Assessments. Examples of this include, but are not limited to: literature screening, data curation and extraction, visualization of health effects evidence, and quality assurance checks. The participant will be a member of the experimental health science team in IHAB in CPHEA, comprised of epidemiologists and toxicologists.
Literature screening will include:
Data curation, extraction, and visualization will include:
Software/tool testing and integration will include :
General project support will include:
Required Knowledge, Skills, Work Experience, and Education
Location: This job will be located EPAs facility in Washington, DC.
Salary: Selected applicant will become a temporary employee of ORAU and will receive an hourly wage of $25.17 for hours worked.
Hours: Full-time.
Travel: Occasional overnight travel may be required.
Expected start date: The position is full time and expected to begin August 2024. The selected applicant will become a temporary employee of ORAU working as a contractor to EPA.
For more information, contactEPANSSC@orau.org. Do not contact EPA directly.
Qualifications:EPA ORD employees, their spouses, and children are not eligible to participate in this program.
Full Time
$98k-124k (estimate)
06/27/2024
07/12/2024
orautest.org
OAK RIDGE, TN
500 - 1,000
1946
Private
ANDY PAGE
$200M - $500M
Scientific Services