Scientific Data Analyst (Surveillance and Medical Intelligence

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LAUKOA is seeking an experienced Scientific Data Analyst (Surveillance) to support the Defense Health Agency's Psychological Health Center of Excellence (PHCoE), located in Silver Spring, MD. This position provides analytical expertise supporting behavioral health surveillance, data management, statistical reporting, and decision support activities that inform psychological health programs across the Military Health System.

The successful candidate will analyze complex healthcare and behavioral health datasets, identify trends affecting Service Member health and readiness, develop data visualizations and reports, and support evidence-informed decision-making through advanced analytical techniques. This role works closely with Government stakeholders, researchers, epidemiologists, statisticians, and behavioral health professionals to transform data into actionable intelligence.

• Analyze large behavioral health, healthcare, and surveillance datasets to identify trends, patterns, and emerging issues affecting military populations.
• Support psychological health surveillance initiatives through data collection, validation, analysis, and interpretation.
• Develop dashboards, data visualizations, executive reports, and briefing materials that communicate analytical findings to Government leadership.
• Perform data quality assessments and ensure the integrity, accuracy, and completeness of analytical products.
• Support development and maintenance of surveillance metrics, performance indicators, and reporting methodologies.
• Collaborate with researchers, statisticians, epidemiologists, clinicians, and Government stakeholders to support ongoing behavioral health research and surveillance initiatives.
• Analyze healthcare utilization, behavioral health outcomes, and population health data to support strategic planning and policy development.
• Develop reproducible analytical workflows using appropriate statistical and data management software.
• Prepare technical documentation, analytical reports, presentations, and data summaries supporting contract deliverables.
• Assist in integrating data from multiple healthcare and research sources to support comprehensive surveillance efforts.
• Identify opportunities to improve data collection, reporting processes, and analytical methodologies.
• Ensure analytical products comply with scientific standards, privacy requirements, and Government data management policies.
• Support special studies, rapid response analyses, and emerging behavioral health initiatives as requested.

• Capability to independently conduct queries of large military health administrative data to create analyzable data sets supporting surveillance and epidemiological studies.
• Capability to rapidly develop and execute analytic plans addressing specific to produce actionable responses to operational requests for information around mental health utilization, mental health care cost, mental health prevalence and other topics related to mental health across the MHS enterprise.
• Capability to evaluate incoming analytic tasking requirements and advise the government on appropriate analytic approaches.
• Capability to produce technical artifacts (e.g., reports, tools, briefings,…