Wastewater Fellowship

Boston Public Health Commission • Boston, MA

19h

About The Position

The Wastewater Epidemiology Fellow will coordinate with internal and external partners to integrate data from the Wastewater Monitoring Program with other public health surveillance data to enhance awareness, preparedness, and response to infectious disease. The fellow will develop code in R and conceptual frameworks to characterize the quantification of pathogens in wastewater and the process for escalating concerning results or trends. The fellow will also work to evaluate the performance of wastewater surveillance in comparison to other near real-time public health surveillance systems, such as syndromic surveillance. Put simply, this role will be responsible for implementing wastewater surveillance for holistic public health surveillance with an emphasis on health equity. The Boston Public Health Commission does not have a laboratory and contracts with third-party laboratories to perform analyses and third-party technicians to collect wastewater, so this is not a laboratory or field-work position.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience with R
• Familiarity with laboratory controls and QA/QC for digital PCR applied to environmental media
• Master's degree or higher in environmental health sciences, environmental engineering, (environmental) epidemiology, or biostatistics with focus in environmental datasets.
• Publication of peer-reviewed scientific article

Nice To Haves

• Publications specific to wastewater

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with internal and external partners to integrate data from the Wastewater Monitoring Program with other public health surveillance data.
• Develop code in R and conceptual frameworks to characterize the quantification of pathogens in wastewater and the process for escalating concerning results or trends.
• Evaluate the performance of wastewater surveillance in comparison to other near real-time public health surveillance systems, such as syndromic surveillance.
• Implement wastewater surveillance for holistic public health surveillance with an emphasis on health equity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees