Research, Epidemiology and Program Evaluation Specialist

CDC Foundation • New York, NY

10d • $31 - $34 • Hybrid

About The Position

The CDC Foundation is seeking a Research, Epidemiology and Program Evaluation Specialist to support the New York State Department of Health. Under the direction of the New York State Department of Health, contracted staff will perform epidemiologic, other data-related investigatory services and program evaluation assistance related to the Governor’s Ending the Epidemic Initiative, the AIDS Institute Research Agenda and AIDS Institute Priority Areas. This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by both the CDC Foundation and New York State Department of Health in order to best support the New York State Department of Health in their public health programming. This position is currently a hybrid position. CDC Foundation retains the right to make adjustments to this as required.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree with a minimum of nine (9) semester hours of mathematics or statistics; and a minimum of two (2) years of research, evaluation, or epidemiologic experience OR a Master’s degree in public health or a related field and a minimum of one (1) year of research, evaluation or epidemiologic experience.
• Experience working with relational databases, SQL Programming, SAS, SPSS, R or other statistical software.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the development, implementation, collection, processing and analysis of AIDS Institute maintained databases, including HIV surveillance data and AIDS Institute Reporting System (AIRS) data.
• Serve as a “data-related liaison” between the AIDS Institute’s surveillance staff, AI program staff including contract managers, and external collaborators (e.g., Department of Corrections and Community Supervision staff, OASAS staff, and other key collaborators), to ensure appropriate coordination and management of data associated with Ending the Epidemic (ETE) programming.
• Facilitate the use of AIDS Institute maintained databases for programmatic purposes consistent with the ETE Initiative (e.g., conduct searches within the New York State HIV surveillance data for patients thought to have fallen out of HIV-related medical care and use this information to generate field assignments to link out-of-care persons back to HIV related medical care).
• Participate in data-driven continuous quality improvement activities designed to improve the quality of HIV ETE-related programming, including (but not limited to), targeted and routine HIV testing, linkage to prevention and care, treatment adherence and viral load suppression.
• Assist with the development of SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-bound) objectives, key variable measurements, and evaluation planning for new ETE programming.
• Provide data driven decision making technical assistance related to priority ETE initiatives.
• Provide support and technical assistance in the development and modification of the tools, the ETE Dashboard and other mechanisms for measuring ETE progress.

What This Job Offers

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