Epidemiologist

Title: Epidemiologist
Location: Nashville, TN (Hybrid)
Duration: 12 Months
Type: Contract

Job 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 in-office days per month

Job duties will include:

• Serving as the data manager for CDC's Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and
• Babies Network (SET-NET) grant.
• Providing quality assurance for SET-NET data entered into a REDCap specific project.
• Transmitting SET-NET 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 HealthCare Client threats on
• pregnant people and their infants.
• Participating in grant-related 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: Master's degree with experience equivalent to five year's 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 problem-solving 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 non-governmental entities
Communicable disease surveillance experience at a local or state public health department
Experience with the CDC-developed 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, community-based
organizations)