Epidemiologist – WPAFB. Ohio

Fidelity Partners•Bath Township, OH

2d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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 into scientific journals.
Apply knowledge of science/technology to analyze and resolve multifaceted issues/problems with minimal guidance and collaborate with technical area stakeholders to develop strategies for effective execution within a particular technology area.
Perform statistical analysis of existing data sets and creation of datasets for statistical analysis in SAS and SAS Enterprise Guide.
Assist in the development of credible, theoretically driven statistical models exploring the relationship between variables identified in data sets and outcomes of interest to the Air Force.
Perform, under guidance, validation and verification protocols, to ensure that the products of study are performing as expected, and assist in performing corrections, in the event of models failing to perform to standard.
Assist in the drafting of written communication for internal and external purposes.
Participate as an expert in health statistics in interdisciplinary planning and analysis.
Acquire data access permissions necessary to perform stated tasks.
Demonstrate or acquire familiarity with Air Force medical, personnel, and operational records systems and standards.
Demonstrate or acquire familiarity with all relevant data repositories used as part of work, or which are generated in pursuit of work.
Collect data from various databases, pursuant to agreements with database owners.
Employee shall demonstrate or acquire familiarity with Air Force medical, personnel, and operational records systems and standards.
Establish the relationship of available data to existing data sets, map the data between data elements and code for these specific data elements, establish data storage architecture requirements, and create a comprehensive data dictionary.
Existing data sets, map the data between data elements and code for these specific data elements, establish data storage architecture requirements, and create a comprehensive data dictionary.
Participation in professional conferences, preparation of posters and presentations, and publication of peer-reviewed manuscripts, in order to support distribution of study products.
Brief study findings at appropriate meetings or forums, as determined by the Government.
Document products for the actual computer code used, in order for government personnel to access these files for review, approval, or for generating copies as required.
Prepared in accordance with USAFSAM programming standards and standard commercial practices inclusive of any/all procedures implanted as part of this task.
Assist in briefings and production of documents as appropriate to transfer knowledge of study products to customers in USAFSAM and the Air Force at large.