Senior Associate - Epidemiologist

Guidehouse•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

Guidehouse is seeking a Senior Associate Epidemiologist to support public health research, surveillance, and injury prevention activities for a federal health client. The role leads and supports epidemiologic studies, investigations, study design, analytic planning, and interpretation of complex public health data. It combines epidemiologic and statistical expertise with scientific writing, research, critical thinking, and stakeholder engagement. The Epidemiologist works with community public health, survey, surveillance, and laboratory-epidemiologic data. The role develops surveillance and analytic products and provides findings and recommendations to inform public health action, policy, further investigation, and program improvement. It also supports research and surveillance sites, Institutional Review Board processes, and communication with federal staff and public health partners.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Sociology, Public Health, or a related field.
Six or more years of relevant professional experience in epidemiology, public health research, surveillance, biostatistics, injury prevention, public health data analysis, or a related field.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust.
Demonstrated experience leading or independently conducting epidemiologic studies, surveillance activities, investigations, study design, analytic planning, database management, and data quality activities.
Demonstrated experience working with community public health data, survey data, surveillance data, or other complex epidemiologic datasets.
Intermediate to advanced experience using SAS or R for data management, statistical analysis, interpretation, and reporting.
Experience translating epidemiologic analyses into scientific or technical products, including reports, tables, figures, presentations, manuscripts, or publications.
Strong scientific writing, research, analytical, critical thinking, and verbal communication skills.
Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and communicate technical information clearly to scientific, programmatic, and other stakeholder audiences.
Ability to provide a scientific or technical writing sample and list of publications.

Nice To Haves

Doctoral degree (Ph.D., DrPH, ScD, or equivalent) in Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Sociology, Public Health, or a related field.
Direct experience in injury prevention, injury epidemiology, injury surveillance, or related population health research.
Experience supporting federal health agencies, particularly CDC or HHS.
Experience with IRB submissions and revisions, human subjects research, study protocol development, or multi-site research and surveillance activities.
Experience contributing to peer-reviewed manuscripts, scientific publications, conference presentations, or other scholarly products.
Experience using additional statistical or database tools such as SPSS, Stata, Epi Info, or Microsoft Access.
Active Public Trust or suitability.

Responsibilities

Lead and support epidemiologic studies, surveillance activities, investigations, and analyses focused on injury prevention and other public health priorities.
Develop study designs, protocols, analytic plans, and data collection approaches, including reviewing and refining data collection instruments.
Manage and analyze complex epidemiologic datasets, including community public health, survey, surveillance, and laboratory-epidemiologic data; conduct data quality review, validation, documentation, and database management.
Conduct statistical analyses using SAS, R, and other relevant statistical software, and interpret findings to assess population health, injury burden, risk factors, data validity, and data gaps.
Develop surveillance and analytic products, including reports, tables, figures, graphs, presentations, and other materials for CDC leadership, partners, scientific meetings, and publication.
Evaluate study and program implementation and outcomes and provide epidemiologic recommendations to inform further investigation, public health action, policy development, and program improvement.
Prepare and contribute to scientific manuscripts, publications, technical reports, abstracts, presentations, and comprehensive statistical and analytic reports.
Support Institutional Review Board (IRB) submissions and revisions, protocol compliance, secure data transfer and processing, and coordination with participating research or surveillance sites.
Provide technical consultation and communicate study requirements, methods, findings, and recommendations to CDC staff, epidemiologists, statisticians, project sites, and other public health partners.
Participate in scientific workgroups, project meetings, conferences, and other technical forums, including presenting epidemiologic findings and documenting key activities and decisions.

Benefits

Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance.
Personal and family sick time and company-paid holidays.
Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus.
Parental leave and adoption assistance.
401(k) retirement plan.
Basic life and supplemental life insurance.
Health Savings Account and dental/vision and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
Short-term and long-term disability.
Student Loan PayDown.
Tuition reimbursement, personal development, and learning opportunities.
Skills development and certifications.
Employee referral program.
Corporate-sponsored events and community outreach.
Emergency back-up childcare program.
Mobility stipend.
Flexible benefits package.