Epidemiologist

Duration: 12 Month+ Assignment
Employment Type: Contract (requires 5 in-office days per month)

Job Title: Epidemiologist 2
Location: Nashville, TN/Hybrid

The Viral Hepatitis (VH) Program within the Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness (CEDEP) division of the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) is hiring for an Epidemiologist 2 position. The role involves managing surveillance data for CDC's SET‑NET grant, supervising staff, and collaborating with partners.

• Serving as the data manager for CDC's Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Mothers and Babies Network (SET‑NET) grant.
• Providing quality assurance for SET‑NET data entered in a REDCap project.
• Transmitting SET‑NET data to CDC per protocol.
• Developing data visualizations for internal and external partners.
• Serving as the data liaison between TDH and CDC.
• Supervising a Medical Records Abstractor and a Data Entry Specialist.
• Requesting and maintaining access to electronic health records throughout Tennessee.
• Conducting surveillance on hepatitis C, syphilis, and other emerging health threats among pregnant people and their infants.
• Participating in grant‑related conference calls, meetings, and site visits.
• Conducting data analysis as needed for grant related meetings, trainings/technical assistance requests, and grant deliverables.
• Assisting with viral hepatitis surveillance data entry and/or medical record requests, as needed.
• Participating in grant development, writing, administration, and monitoring to ensure compliance with grant requirements.
• Participating in development of the annual Viral Hepatitis Epidemiological Profile.
• Assisting with the end‑of‑year data validation and closeout as requested.
• Responding to internal and external viral hepatitis inquiries as assigned.
• Developing detailed procedural guides for all assigned tasks.
• Additional tasks as assigned.

Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a doctoral degree in epidemiology, public health, biostatistics, statistics, or health informatics
OR
Substitution of Education for

Experience:

Master’s degree with experience equivalent to five years work experience in epidemiology.

• Knowledge of viral hepatitis, and maternal/child health
• Supervisory experience
• Experience writing statistical and analytical programming code in SAS
• Data visualization (e.g., Tableau)
• Experience leading projects with multiple partners and collaborators
• Time management skills and proven ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously while completing projects within the allocated time frames
• Superior analytical and problem‑solving skills, working both individually and as part of a team
• Ability to work collaboratively across programs and interact with all levels of departmental staff, the public, and other governmental and non‑governmental entities
• Communicable disease surveillance experience at a local or state public health department
• Experience with the CDC‑developed National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Base System (NBS)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience developing, maintaining, entering, and extracting data from REDCap databases
• Experience collaborating with internal and external partners (e.g., CDC, community‑based organizations)