Public Health Data Analyst

ICF

5d • $61,232 - $104,094 • Remote

About The Position

The Public Health Data Analyst supports data analysis, data quality, visualization, and epidemiologic activities for public health surveillance programs. The role combines hands-on quantitative analysis with knowledge of epidemiology, surveillance systems, and public health data. The analyst may bring experience in public health surveillance, including syndromic surveillance and ESSENCE, or in analytical programming and data analysis using R or comparable tools, and will apply and expand those skills through surveillance work with project colleagues and clients.

The position involves analyzing public health surveillance and emergency department data, supporting time-sensitive surveillance activities, and developing or maintaining reports, dashboards, and other analytical products for CDC and response partners. The analyst works with senior epidemiologists and analysts as appropriate and incorporates input from CDC subject-matter experts and state, local, tribal, and territorial public health partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Data Science, Informatics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
• 2–4 years of relevant professional experience in public health, epidemiology, healthcare data analysis, surveillance, or a related analytical field.
• At least 3 years of experience with either public health or syndromic surveillance, including ESSENCE or comparable surveillance systems, or analytical programming and data analysis using R or comparable tools.
• Experience analyzing public health, epidemiologic, healthcare, or other complex datasets.
• Ability to take ownership of assigned work, manage competing priorities, and communicate questions or issues as they arise.
• Understanding of basic epidemiologic and statistical concepts.
• Experience cleaning, transforming, validating, analyzing, or visualizing data.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and documentation skills.
• Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with syndromic surveillance and/or ESSENCE.
• Experience using R or other analytical programming tools for public health or epidemiologic analysis.
• Experience working with state, local, tribal, or territorial public health agencies or their surveillance data, systems, or reporting activities.
• Master's degree in Epidemiology, Public Health, Biostatistics, Data Science, Informatics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
• Familiarity with healthcare and public health data standards or terminology, such as HL7, ICD-9/10, SNOMED, or LOINC.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze public health surveillance data using ESSENCE, R, and other analytical tools to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, data-quality issues, and potential public health events of interest.
• Support enhanced and time-sensitive surveillance activities, including analysis, reporting, and development or maintenance of analytical and dashboard products using CDC-provided formats and requirements.
• Contribute to reports, slides, dashboards, and other analytical products for CDC and response partners, working with senior epidemiologists and analysts as appropriate.
• Support the development, testing, and validation of syndrome definitions and surveillance categories, incorporating feedback from CDC subject-matter experts and STLT public health partners.
• Support analysis and reporting of emergency department data and other public health data sources, including NNDSS, commercial laboratory, and Veteran’s Affairs data, as incorporated into surveillance activities.
• Take ownership of assigned analytical work, manage multiple priorities and short timelines, and communicate questions, issues, or risks as they arise.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level