Job ID: TN-60017 (97590216)

Hybrid Epidemiologist with disease surveillance, tertiary/clinical research, SAS statistical coding/programming, REDCap data extraction, and medical records review experience

Location: Nashville, TN DOH
Duration: 12 months
PLEASE NOTE: This is a Hybrid position and all candidates that are submitted to this requisition should be informed of this.

Epidemiologist 2 Minimum Qualifications:
Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a doctorate’s degree in
epidemiology.
OR
Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a doctorate’s degree in; medicine
(MD), osteopathic medicine (DO), veterinarian medicine (DVM), public health, biostatistics, statistics, health informatics
health sciences, biomedical sciences or environmental sciences with experience equivalent to two years’ work
experience in epidemiology.
Substitution of Education for Experience: Additional graduate coursework in public health or an Epidemic Intelligence
Service (EIS) Fellowship may substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis to a maximum of two years.
OR
Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master’s degree in epidemiology,
public health, biostatistics, statistics, or health informatics with experience equivalent to four year’s work experience in
epidemiology.
Substitution of Education for Experience: Additional studies with an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Fellowship may
substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis to a maximum of two years.
OR
Education and Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master’s degree in health science,
biomedical science or environmental science with experience equivalent to six year’s work experience in epidemiology.
Substitution of Education for Experience: Additional studies with an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Fellowship may
substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis to a maximum of two years.
Position Description:
The Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance (HAI/AR) Program within the Communicable and Environmental Diseases and Emergency Preparedness (CEDEP) division of the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) is accepting applications for an Epidemiologist 2 position. This position is currently funded from year to year through CDC cooperative agreements (grants). Some in-state and out of state travel is required.

Desired Qualifications:
• Communicable disease surveillance experience at a local or state public health department.
• Experience in tertiary, clinical, or health department research including development, conduct, and publication.
• Experience in leading small to medium sized teams.
• Experience writing statistical and analytical programming code in SAS.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and entering and extracting data from REDCap databases.
• Experience in reviewing and abstracting medical records.

The Epidemiologist 2 will serve as lead Epidemiologist of the HAI/AR program’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) surveillance activities. NHSN is the nation’s most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system. NHSN provides facilities, states, regions, and the nation with data needed to identify problem areas, measure progress of prevention efforts, and ultimately eliminate healthcare-associated infections.

Job duties will include:
• Perform programmatic project management activities related to the HAI/AR Program’s National Healthcare and Safety Network (NHSN) surveillance.
o Lead and mentor a team of up to three individuals.
• Monitor, collect, and analyze healthcare-associated infections as reported by healthcare facilities into the National Health Safety Network (NHSN).
• Foster relationships with acute care hospitals and long-term care infection preventionists and coordinating monthly NHSN User Calls.
• Participate in grant development, writing, administration, and monitoring to ensure compliance with grant requirements.
• Participate in HAI- and MDRO-related projects, including an Emerging Infections Program (EIP) point prevalence study of HAIs and antimicrobial use, onsite and remote validation of HAI data, and other special projects as needed.
• Lead HAI prevention collaboratives for healthcare facilities across the state
• Lead and participate in outbreak investigations

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Hybrid Epidemiologist with disease surveillance, tertiary/clinical research, SAS statistical coding/programming, REDCap data extraction, and medical records review experience

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