Health Physicist

Health Physicist

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY As a Health Physicist, you will be:

Serve as an expert on radiological assessment, environmental and medical radiation dosimetry, and other related nuclear/radiological issues, provides expert scientific leadership in planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating radiation studies involving exposure pathway analysis, source term estimation, and radiation dosimetry, including serving as project officer / scientific advisor and, when necessary, team leader on assigned intramural research projects or projects supported by interagency agreements, cooperative agreements, contracts, and grants.

Provide technical assistance to federal, state, and local agencies, as well as members of the general public, for activities related to the responsibilities of the Radiation Studies Program.

Participate in the design, development, and maintenance of mathematical models of human biokinetics and physiology for analysis of radiation dose In coordination with other Radiation Studies Program staff, and in collaboration with other federal and state agencies, contractors, and consultants, estimates to people, including development of detailed design criteria for biological models needed by the radiation studies program.

Serve on interagency work groups and committees, to include the Advisory Team for Environment, Food, and Health, and the Nuclear/Radiological Incident Task Force (NRITF).