Provides a broad range of services in the Epidemiology Program as a full-time County Epidemiologist, conducting investigations, surveillance, and interventions related to Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistant organisms.
Compensation
Salary: $2,196.80 - $2,324.96 Biweekly
Responsibilities
Conduct epidemiologic investigations, surveillance, and interventions
Serve as subject matter expert on Infection Prevention and Control practices
Provide timely infection prevention and control consultation to health care organizations
Analyze, evaluate, research, and interpret scientific guidelines/protocols
Support HAI/AR epidemiological investigations including outbreak or case creation in Merlin
Requirements
Master’s degree in Epidemiology, Public Health, or natural or physical science
Perform investigation, data entry, and follow-up for the prevention and control of communicable diseases including but not limited to healthcare associated infections (HAI), reportable diseases, foodborne and waterborne illnesses, general infectious diseases, and influenza (seasonal and pandemic).
Compensation
Salary: $25 - $32 per hour
Responsibilities
Perform investigation, data entry, and follow-up for the prevention and control of communicable diseases
Perform daily surveillance, data analysis, and management using ESSENCE, Merlin data systems, Epi Gateway, and other databases
Follow up on all Electronic Laboratory Reports (ELR) and faxed reports within assigned HAIs
Coordinate point prevalence surveys and collect laboratory specimens
Monitor clients during infectious periods
Requirements
Master’s degree in public health or related field
Registered Nurse (RN), BSN, MSN, or APRN
Nice to have: Certification in Infection Control
Nice to have: one year of experience working in an applied epidemiology program
Support data analysis, quality, visualization, and epidemiologic activities for public health surveillance programs.
Locations (2)
Fairfax, Virginia, United States
United States
Compensation
$61,232.00 - $104,094.00
Responsibilities
Monitor and analyze public health surveillance data using ESSENCE, R, and other analytical tools to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, data-quality issues, and potential public health events of interest.
Support enhanced and time-sensitive surveillance activities, including analysis, reporting, and development or maintenance of analytical and dashboard products using CDC-provided formats and requirements.
Contribute to reports, slides, dashboards, and other analytical products for CDC and response partners, working with senior epidemiologists and analysts as appropriate.
Support the development, testing, and validation of syndrome definitions and surveillance categories, incorporating feedback from CDC subject-matter experts and STLT public health partners.
Support analysis and reporting of emergency department data and additional public health data sources, such as NNDSS, commercial laboratory, Veteran’s Affairs, and other data sources, as they are incorporated into surveillance activities.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Data Science, Informatics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field
Nice to have: syndromic surveillance
Nice to have: public health surveillance
Nice to have: state, local, tribal, or territorial public health agencies
