Epidemiologist – WPAFB. Ohio

Epidemiologist – WPAFB, Ohio

This Position Is Contingent Upon Bid Award

Location:

Analytic Consultation Data Cell Aerospace Medicine Studies and Analysis United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine

2510 5th St., Building 840 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship Required

Clearance Requirements:
Tier 1 Background Investigation – National Agency Check with Law and Credit Check, and fingerprints.

Total Compensation: $45.00 per hour.

Type of Employment: 40 hours per week.

Period of Performance: 30 September 2026 – 29 September 2027

Employee Paid Group Benefits Offered:
Health/Dental/Vision.

Paid Time Off per Year:
Up to 80 hours per year, occurring on day one.

Sick Leave per Year:
Up to 56 hours per year, occurring on day one.

Paid Federal Holidays:
Eleven (11) Paid Federal Holidays

The Epidemiologist will assist in providing operational medicine and human performance surveillance support on a variety of operational, readiness, human performance, and health outcomes, as well as program evaluation and effectiveness analysis for programs within the operational or human performance domains.

The Epidemiologist work schedule is normally from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday; however, there may be times when it is necessary for the employee to work after duty hours or weekends in support of specific tasks. Although the schedule may have to be flexible, it will not exceed 40 hours per week.

• Possess, at a minimum, an MPH, MS, or PhD in Epidemiology, Statistics, Data Science, Bioinformatics, or other similar degree as approved by USAFSAM/FES and strong knowledge of their field of expertise.
• Have a minimum of 5 years of experience with statistics in public health.
• Possess advanced analytical skills, including visual analytics in population health and health data surveillance.
• Possess the ability to design, formulate, conduct, and lead data analysis of operational studies on health surveillance data/health records/other relevant military records and risk reduction of negative health outcomes affecting the USAF total force population.
• Be proficient in the following software programs:
  Microsoft Office, SAS, SAS Enterprise Guide, and Adobe Acrobat.
• Be current in Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) training to be able to access and process identified medical data.
• Possess the capacity to learn new analytical technology tools such as Envision, Tableau, Python, R, SAS Viya, or Qualtrics.

• Board certification in Public Health is highly desired.
• Experience with in a health analytics-related field and working with USAF-related data is desired.

Copies of degrees/certifications and resumes must be forwarded to (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).

• Designing, formulating, conducting, and leading data analysis of health surveillance data/health records, military personnel records, military operational records, and other relevant military records at the individual, unit, and total force populations to provide human performance and operational surveillance support.
• Use judgment and originality in developing innovative approaches to define and resolve highly complex situations.
• Assist in designing, formulating, conducting, and leading data analysis of health surveillance data/health records, operational records, and other relevant military records at the individual, unit, and total force populations to provide program evaluation for a wide variety of programs related to human performance, readiness, operational performance, administrative performance, or other performance as requested.
• Assist in the management of the retrieval and integration of health information data, personnel records, deployment-related records, health surveillance registries, and other military-related data into useable formats for end-users.
• Draft reports, prepare, and/or present reports, documents, and/or presentations pertaining to the status of the research and data analysis as requested, and meet FES projected suspense dates.
• Present results of studies or investigations through briefings, technical reports, and publication…