Biologist

Biologist

What You'll Be Doing Day To Day As a Biologist, you will:

1. Plan and implement scientific program policies, strategies, goals, and activities related to biological sciences and public health.
2. Evaluates program needs and priorities, integrates activities across organizational components, and develops approaches to address new or complex scientific issues and improve overall program effectiveness.
3. Develop and applies new scientific methods, standards, techniques, and approaches to resolve complex or novel biological and public health problems.
4. Analyzes uncertain, conflicting, or inconclusive scientific information and uses professional judgment to determine appropriate methodologies and develop solutions that expand existing scientific capabilities.
5. Develop and coordinate scientific policies, strategies, and program activities; evaluates program effectiveness; and applies advanced biological science principles to complex or novel public health issues.
6. Develops new methods, standards, and techniques when existing approaches are insufficient and provides findings and recommendations that may influence agency programs and public health policy.
7. Collaborate with CDC programs, other federal agencies, state and local health departments, and national and international partner organizations.
8. Provides technical advice, communicates scientific findings and recommendations, supports cooperative studies and projects, and works with public health officials and organizational leaders to promote implementation of findings and improvements in program effectiveness.