Epidemiologist

SH-641 Epidemiologist Carmel, IN

About Syra Health

Syra Health is a healthcare consulting company with a mission to improve healthcare by providing innovative services and technology solutions. Syra Health aims to achieve its goal by becoming a valuable partner to government, payers, providers, life sciences organizations, and academic institutions. Syra Health offers products and services in digital health, behavioural and mental health, population health management, health education, and healthcare workforce.

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Job Summary

Provides high-level epidemiological and technical support for program areas including, but not limited to environmental, chronic disease, sexually transmitted disease, communicable disease, maternal and child health, violence, and injury prevention. Provide support for data management, analysis, interpretation, visualization, and dissemination of public health data.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides leadership and guidance to Public Health Data Analysts and Epidemiologists.
• Monitors trends, community health status, and health disparities by conducting public health surveillance and data analysis.
• Applies epidemiological and public health knowledge and skills to the development of disease control program planning.
• Conducts advanced epidemiological analyses of primary and secondary public health data and prepares reports and publications.
• Performs database design, data management, data cleaning, statistical analysis, GIS mapping, and data visualization.
• Develop and implement methods and procedures for the retrieval, processing, cleaning, formatting, variable recoding, data linkages, data quality checks, and data analysis in collaboration with biostatisticians, epidemiologists, and data analysts.
• Uses knowledge and understanding of data processes to screen for and recognize data inaccuracies and to ensure consistency and the highest quality of data analyses and reporting.
• Develops and supports automation of data workflows as applicable.
• Identifies and recommends new uses for existing data sources.
• Evaluates and improves public health surveillance and epidemiological investigation systems and develops new systems as applicable.
• Research to keep abreast of health-related literature and uses literature to determine appropriate ways to define and analyze health indicators, as well as to conduct literature reviews for special projects.
• Builds and sustains collaborative relationships with individuals in different departments and disciplines and serves as a subject-matter expert for staff, internal and external committees, and other constituencies and collaborators.
• Communicates scientific, technical, and general information regarding diseases to a wide variety of audiences.
• Presents data findings and recommendations to internal and external partners to drive decisions regarding mitigation strategies.
• Educates and empowers the community through the dissemination of data to programs that create educational material, seek grant funding, and evaluate programmatic benchmarks.
• Performs other related duties as required or directed.
  
  

Minimum Job Requirements

• Master's degree, doctoral degree preferred; at least four years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.
• Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that is above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year-for-year basis.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required

• Advanced knowledge and comprehension of epidemiology and public health principles and practices.
• Knowledge and comprehension of biostatistics.
• Ability to analyze and interpret disease data from a wide variety of data sources.
• Ability to manage, manipulate, analyze, and visualize large datasets using packages such as SAS, R, Tableau, REDcap, and ArcGIS.
• Ability to initiate, conduct, and report on disease control and epidemiological studies and research.
• Extensive ability to communicate with health care and public health professionals, policymakers, agency staff, and the general public both verbally and in writing.
• Advanced skills in the writing of formal reports and articles.
• Ability to provide technical guidance and leadership to professional personnel in area of expertise.
• Ability to lead and direct other epidemiologists.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with national, state, and local partners in various governmental, private, and voluntary agencies.
• Strong analytical communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong focus on quality and timely delivery of work.