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Texas Department of State Health Services · 1 day ago

EMSTR Epidemiologist II

Austin, TX

Contract

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$4,523/mo - $6,571/mo

Texas Department of State Health Services is committed to hiring skilled and dedicated individuals who share a passion for public health. The Epidemiologist II role involves performing complex research and epidemiological work in the Injury Prevention Unit, focusing on advanced epidemiologic investigations related to EMS and Trauma Registries data.

Health Care

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Initiates, plans, develops, oversees routine and incident-specific morbidity and mortality surveillance of injuries, diseases and other health conditions. Analyzes EMS, Trauma, Submersion (drowning), and related data; fulfills requests from internal and external stakeholders in easily digestible formats

Helps maintain epidemiologic data collection operations and provides quality control for EMSTR data system

Develops data to be used for grant-funded projects, generates scientific publications, public health reports and presentation of completed work to agency/program management, and presents at scientific conferences

Proposes and initiates injury epidemiological projects, including design specification and analysis, and presents project results. Creates reports and PowerPoint presentations to share results

Other duties as assigned include but are not limited to actively participating and/or serving in a supporting role to meet the agency's obligations for disaster response and/or recovery or Continuity of Operations (COOP) activation. Such participation may require an alternate shift pattern assignment and/or location. To perform these job duties, this position may require working extra hours needed to meet defined deadlines and support the agency’s mission critical reporting requirements

Qualification

EpidemiologySASData analysisStatistical analysisProject managementTechnical writingMicrosoft OfficeSQL DeveloperCommunication skillsTeamwork

Required

Required graduation from an accredited 4-year college or university in epidemiology, health or social science, statistics, or a related field

Experience using SAS

Experience working as an epidemiologist/researcher/public health data analyst

Preferred

Master's degree in Public Health

Knowledge Of SQL Developer

Benefits

Insurance coverage and other benefits available through the State of Texas Group Benefits Plan administered by the Employee Retirement System of Texas (ERS)

Company

Texas Department of State Health Services

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Texas Department of State Health Services focuses on public health to promote and protect the health of Texans & their communities.

Founded in 2015

Austin, Texas, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.dshs.texas.gov/

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