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, surveillance activities, 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 Senior Associate manages and analyzes complex epidemiologic datasets, conducts statistical analyses using SAS, R, and other relevant software, and develops surveillance and analytic products for CDC leadership, partners, scientific meetings, and publication. The role also evaluates study and program implementation and outcomes, provides epidemiologic recommendations, contributes to scientific and technical publications, supports IRB processes and protocol compliance, and provides technical consultation to public health partners. The position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust; candidates with an active Public Trust or suitability are preferred.

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.
Must be able 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.
Active Public Trust or suitability.
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.

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 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.