Syndromic Surveillance Epidemiologist I - Public Health
The Syndromic Surveillance Epidemiologist I supports public health surveillance by conducting data collection, analysis, and epidemiologic investigations to monitor disease trends and improve community health in Nebraska. This entry-level role involves assisting senior epidemiologists with outbreak response, data management, grant activities, and reporting to support state public health initiatives.
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Summary
Confidential Client is seeking an entry-level Syndromic Surveillance Epidemiologist (Epidemiologist I) to support public health surveillance and epidemiologic investigations. This role contributes to data collection, cleaning, basic analysis, reporting, and outbreak response under the supervision of senior epidemiology staff.
What You’ll Do
- Conduct routine surveillance activities: data collection, cleaning, validation, and basic descriptive analyses.
- Assist with outbreak and case investigations, including interviews, contact tracing, and coordination with healthcare providers and local public health partners.
- Maintain and query core surveillance datasets; produce demographic summaries and basic trend analyses.
- Implement, modify, and test statistical analysis code (e.g., R, SAS) and support evaluation activities.
- Support onsite reviews of facilities and procedures when needed.
- Contribute to literature reviews, prepare draft reports, and help present findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Support grant deliverables and participate in grant writing and reporting tasks.
- Participate in training, internal/external committees, and community education events as assigned.
Responsibilities / Examples of Work
- Conduct routine epidemiologic functions of surveillance, data collection, data analysis, and assistance in epidemiologic investigations.
- Assist with outbreak or disease outcomes response – includes case investigations, contact tracing, working with external individuals, reviewing datasets.
- Assist in onsite reviews of facilities and procedures and interview patients, providers, and other stakeholders.
- Use main datasets to generate surveillance outputs (demographic frequencies, basic statistics) and provide findings to senior epidemiologists.
- Provide basic statistical analysis on multiple datasets and perform data management tasks (cleaning, standardization, secure storage).
- Use or learn tools such as R, SQL, SAS, STATA, Power BI, and ArcGIS for analysis and visualization.
- Draft sections of reports and contribute to grant application materials and routine reporting to funders.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, Informatics, or related health field PLUS 4 years of relevant experience in data analysis, statistics, or interpretation of health-related data; OR
- Master’s degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, Informatics, or related health field PLUS 2 years of related experience.
Preferred: Master’s degree plus 4 years related experience.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Knowledge of epidemiologic principles, surveillance systems, investigative techniques, and disease prevention/control.
- Basic statistical and programming skills: R, SAS, STATA; basic SQL for data queries.
- Familiarity with data visualization and management tools (Power BI, ArcGIS or similar).
- Ability to translate methods and results for varied audiences and to work collaboratively with healthcare and public health partners.
- Strong written and verbal communication, critical thinking, and attention to detail.
Employment Details & Compensation
- Employment type: Full-time
- Hiring rate listed: $32.269 (hourly) — applicants should expect this rate as provided by the source posting. Exact compensation and benefits will be determined by the hiring organization.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, retirement, and professional development (details and eligibility vary by position). For benefits information, consult the hiring organization.
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