Epidemiologist

Epidemiologist - Level 3 – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Local Pay: $38.00/hour- W2 

Join our team and make a meaningful impact by delivering exceptional care in a professional healthcare setting. We're looking for a dedicated and compassionate healthcare professional who is committed to providing high-quality patient care. 

Why You'll Love Working With Us 

• Quick & Easy Application - Apply anytime, anywhere with our enHANce app. 

• Referral Rewards- Receive referral bonuses for eligible candidates you refer .($800 referrer / $200 referee- Payable after 200 hours of work)

• Personalized Support - Work with a dedicated recruiter committed to your success. 

• Exclusive Employee Benefits - Enjoy free continuing education (CEUs) exclusive marketplace discounts, hotel savings, pet insurance, and Employee Assistance Program.

Shift Details:

• Monday thru Friday 8 am to 5 pm cst. Contractor can telework from a remote location

Position Responsibilities /Essential Functions

Cross-Cutting Infectious Disease Surveillance, Data Strategy, Modernization, and Surveillance System Design & Maintenance 

• Provides consultation to program areas on data analysis, visualization, and automation to support standardization of surveillance methodologies across infectious disease program areas.

• Designs and implements reproducible and automated approaches to surveillance data management, analysis, visualization, and reporting.

• Develops technical products using tools such as SAS, R, SQL, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Query, Excel, DAX, APIs, and related technologies. 

• Supports epidemiologically informed surveillance system design and maintenance through requirements development, business-rule design, testing, validation, data mapping, and implementation.

Data Quality, Reporting, and Reconciliation

• Develops and conducts surveillance data-quality assessments and identifies systemic issues affecting completeness, validity, consistency, classification, timeliness, or reporting. 

• Supports annual reconciliation, CDC reporting validation, historical data updates, and resolution of state-to-federal data discrepancies. 

• Supports infectious disease program areas in preparing technical reports, surveillance summaries, dashboards, presentations, and other data products. May also lead the development of similar deliverables when the scope involves contribution from more than one program area.

• Serves as a senior technical resource, leads complex surveillance projects, and mentors less experienced epidemiologists without formal supervisory responsibility.

• Enteric Disease Surveillance and Outbreak Response

• Serves as a senior surveillance epidemiologist for enteric diseases, including routine surveillance, trend and cluster monitoring, outbreak investigation, and interpretation of epidemiologic, laboratory, and whole-genome sequencing data. 

• Serves as a surveillance point of contact for CDC and other federal partners and supports required reporting, grant deliverables, national calls, data requests, and coordination with public health laboratory partners. 

• Conducts advanced epidemiologic and statistical analyses to monitor infectious disease trends, identify emerging issues, support outbreak detection and response, and inform public health decision-making.

Other Duties

• Demonstrates knowledge of and supports mission, vision, value statements, standards, policies and procedures, operating instructions, confidentiality standards, and the code of ethical behavior.

• Works effectively in team environment, participating and assisting their peers.

Minimum Qualifications 

• Master of Science or Master of Public Health degree with an emphasis on epidemiology, biostatistics, biological, medical, or health science. The following courses are strongly preferred: 6 semester hours in epidemiological methods and 6 semester hours of other epidemiological coursework and 9 semester hours in statistical methods and analysis, and a minimum of four years’ experience in public health informatics and infectious disease surveillance.

OR

• A doctorate (PHD or DrPH) in epidemiology, and 

• A minimum one year of qualifying experience in public health informatics and infectious disease surveillance.

Benefits 

• Competitive Pay

• Health, Dental, Vision, Life & Short-Term Disability Insurance (eligibility begins after 60 days)

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Travel Stipends for Qualified Candidates

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