Epidemiologist

You will serve as an Epidemiologist at NASA Johnson Space Center. You will provide support and contribute to occupational health, health physicist, or compliance functions. You will collectively support the protection of worker health through hazard anticipation, exposure assessment, risk analysis, and preventive controls. You will drive functions to understand how environmental, chemical, biological, and radiological factors impact human health and implement systems that minimize those risks.

In addition to the Basic Education Requirement (in the Education section below), to qualify for this position you must meet the requirements below.

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.

a) One year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 level:

• Assisting in conducting surveillance or monitoring activities, performing fundamental laboratory or field procedures, or completing basic analyses or visualizations to identify patterns, trends, or potential hazards affecting population or workforce health;
• Collecting, organizing, and interpreting data obtained from interpretive summaries, surveys, or environmental measurements or laboratory tests;
• Assisting in developing or delivering epidemiology educational or training materials that promote prevention practices and risk-reduction behaviors among staff or targeted audiences.

b) Completed all requirements for a doctoral degree (i.e., Ph.D. or equivalent) in an appropriate field.

c) Completed 3 full academic years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or equivalent doctoral degree in an appropriate field.

d) Have an equivalent combination of experience and graduate study as discussed in a), b) and c) above.

• Conducting statistical analyses or developing interactive dashboards to inform program or project decisions for assigned portions of surveillance or health outcomes projects;
• Integrating data from field, laboratory, or analytical sources to recommend improvements and define measurable performance criteria to assess, refine, or validate protocols and procedures;
• Serving as an epidemiology technical liaison to clinical, behavioral, environmental, or biomedical engineering teams, translating analytic results into actionable risk mitigation strategies.

• Designing or refining approaches that address emerging issues and guiding high consequence hazard or health risk analyses;
• Establishing health risk analytical standards, prevention or control protocols, or cross disciplinary data integration methods to support validated models, methodologies, or advanced visualization frameworks;
• Serving as an epidemiology subject matter expert, providing technical recommendations that inform organizational decisions, strengthen risk management programs, and influence policy or strategic direction for surveillance, exposure assessment, or risk evaluation.

• Industrial Hygiene
• Health Physics

Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience. Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in…