Our client is hiring a Public Health/Infectious Disease Biostatistician and Statistician Epidemiologist to provide support. This position will give support to the Platform team that coordinates surveillance of respiratory disease and vaccination including COVID-19 and RSV among others throughout the US.
Statistics support is needed as surveillance, research efforts and datasets expand. Support is required in areas of epidemiology, communication, and field support. A Statistician has the necessary education and work experiences to provide support to the task force on emergency response areas of epidemiology, data analytics (coding and practice), and statistical methods (modeling, regression, survival analysis, multivariate analysis) at an expert level.
* Provide technical oversight and coordinate collection, management, and analysis of data from COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases.
* Work on disease burden estimation (e.g. estimating attributable fraction, incidence rate calculation) and observational vaccine effectiveness estimation (e.g. test-negative design, case-control analyses)
* Develop, revise, and review study protocols, questionnaires, and other data collection forms (e.g. REDCap)
* Provide quality assurance guidance to technical and program staff to ensure data integrity including preparing program guidelines to increase consistency, performing necessary data checks and managing datasets and data documentation
* Maintain relevant IRB approvals for research with human subjects at CDC and provide technical support for approvals at collaborating institutions
* Liaise with principal investigators, site coordinators, study enrollers, and laboratory personnel; or jurisdictional principal investigators, coordinators and data managers
* Write and troubleshoot SAS programs, organize, test, and streamline the surveillance system data components, and create SAS datasets for analyses.
* Perform descriptive analyses of data for epidemiological studies using SAS or an equivalent package (e.g. R).
* Assist with preparation of scientific manuscripts for peer-reviewed publication, develop data reports, write programs, and analyze data as needed for reports, abstracts, presentations, and papers.
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* PhD in statistics with a 3+ years of analytic work experience with epidemiologic/public health or clinical studies OR
* M.S. in statistics with 5+ years of experience as outlined above
* Capable of advanced programming in SAS or R and experience working with large datasets
* Experience working on disease burden estimation (e.g. estimating attributable fraction, incidence rate calculation) and observational vaccine effectiveness estimation (e.g. test-negative design, case-control analyses)
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.