Public Health Program Associate - Rollins School of Public Health

Emory University•Atlanta, GA

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

This position at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health involves applying public health principles to address public health issues and challenges. The role focuses on analyzing, developing, implementing, and promoting strategies for public health concerns. Key activities include providing education, technical assistance, advocacy, public awareness, and research related to public health issues. The associate will work on programs evaluating the prevalence and surveillance of public health issues and the effectiveness of interventions. This may involve providing technical assistance to organizations through presentations and resources, and potentially working with clinical study sites on patient recruitment and data collection. The role also includes assisting with data collection and analysis, contributing to proposals, protocols, data analysis plans, reports, manuscripts, and presenting study findings. Additionally, the associate may help design and conduct training initiatives and collaborate with external organizations on action plans. Specific tasks include extracting information from high-resolution remote sensing images, developing workflows for image processing, and writing academic manuscripts.

Requirements

A master's degree in Public Health, a master of science degree in Public Health or Health Education, OR a master's degree in Development Practice OR a master's degree in another field and one year of public health experience.

Nice To Haves

Imagery data analysis
Spatial analysis
Environmental Health data analysis

Responsibilities

Under limited supervision, uses a basic knowledge of public health principles to analyze, develop, implement, and promote new and creative strategies and solutions to address public health issues and challenges.
Addresses public health issues by providing education, technical assistance, advocacy, public awareness, and research.
Works with programs or studies designed to evaluate the prevalence or surveillance of public health issues and the effectiveness of targeted interventions.
May provide technical assistance to organizations to include presentations, web-based resources, strategies, and educational forums to address specific public health issues.
May work with clinical study sites on patient recruitment and data collection standards.
Assists with data collection and data analysis.
Contributes to proposals, protocols, data analysis plans, reports, manuscripts, and presentation of study findings.
May assist in designing, developing, and conducting targeted training initiatives.
May collaborate with external organizations to develop action plans and goals to achieve specific objectives.
Performs related responsibilities as required.
Working with PI in extracting information from high-resolution remote sensing images.
Developing auditable workflow to download and process remote sensing images from multiple platforms.
Writing academic manuscripts.