Senior Public Health Analytics Consultant

Founded in 2004, BME Strategies is a Massachusetts-based consulting firm specializing in the design, implementation, and evaluation of public health programs for local, regional, and state government partners. Our work supports evidence-based, community-driven solutions that strengthen public health systems and advance equity across the communities we serve.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Public Health Analytics Consultant to support statewide and local public health dashboarding and reporting. This role leads the business and analytic direction of dashboards, ensuring they are actionable, policy-relevant, and aligned with DPH priorities, best practice standards, and local public health needs.

The ideal candidate brings strong applied analytic judgment, experience working with public health data and partners, and the ability to bridge program, analytic, and technical teams.

Dashboard Strategy, Ownership, and Validation

• Lead the content, structure, and use cases for statewide and local public health dashboards, ensuring usability for local public health and relevance for state partners.
• Define and document business requirements, KPIs, success criteria, and analytic assumptions for dashboards and reports.
• Validate that dashboards meet local and state public health needs, including analytic clarity, usability, and equity considerations.
• Lead metric definition and ensure alignment with DPH and best practice standards across programs, documenting methodologies and decisions as needed in coordination with DPH partners.

Analytic Guidance and Data Expertise

• Serve as a biostatistical subject matter expert for dashboard design, interpretation, and data quality decisions.
• Provide analytic guidance on appropriate methods for public health reporting, including rate construction, age adjustment, suppression practices, trend analysis, and interpretation of reliability.
• Research, vet, and document datasets to understand limitations, biases, suppression rules, and interpretation risks.

Public Health Data, Local Context, and Equity

• Work with common public health dataset types, including mortality and death records, injury and violence data, chronic disease indicators, syndromic or near–real-time surveillance data, hospitalization and utilization data, and population-based datasets such as PLACES, Census and American Community Survey data, and social determinants of health indicators.
• Assess dataset differences related to methodology, timeliness, geographic resolution, and equity implications.
• Incorporate social, demographic, and environmental context into analytic outputs, with appropriate documentation of assumptions and limitations.
• Ensure dashboards and analytic products reflect the realities of municipal, regional, rural, and capacity-constrained public health settings and align with Foundational Public Health Services.

Partner Leadership and Coordination

• Serve as the primary point of contact for DPH partners on dashboard-related work.
• Facilitate analytic discussions with local public health and program partners, translating complex concepts into clear, decision-ready insights.
• Coordinate and help prioritize dashboard-related feedback to support aligned delivery.

Dashboard Delivery and Communication

• Oversee Tableau dashboard development, ensuring analytic integrity, equity-focused design, and clear interpretation.
• Contribute to dashboards, metadata, reports, newsletters, and other partner-facing materials with clear written communication.

Required:

• Master’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Informatics, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• Minimum 6 years of experience supporting public health analytics, data strategy, performance reporting, or dashboard development in a consulting, government, or applied public health setting.
• Demonstrated experience leading or advising on the design of public health dashboards, analytic products, or reporting frameworks for state and local public health audiences.
• Strong working knowledge of public health analytic methods sufficient to guide methodology and interpretation, with examples including rate construction, age…