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Position Highlights:
Position Title: Epidemiologist
Location: Onsite (Puerto Rico)
Position End Date: 4/11/2025
Salary: $72,
000.00 annually plus benefits (Exempt)
Overview:
The CDC Foundation is seeking a qualified applicant to join the Puerto Rico Department of Health. The applicant will collaborate and work with a wide range of PRDOH programs to address COVID-19 health disparities among high-risk and underserved populations, including racial and ethnic minorities and rural communities. The candidate should demonstrate a willingness to seek novel solutions to advance health equity.
Qualifications:
•Master’s in Epidemiology MS or Master’s in Public Health specializing in Epidemiology.
•Experience handling databases.
•Minimum one year experience as an epidemiologist.
Responsibilities:
•Evaluates, plans, and performs epidemiologic studies, to better surveillance systems and disease control.
•Advice in the design and methodology of epidemiologic investigations, revising studies, reports, health statistics, demographic information and other identifying factors, sources and epidemiologic tendencies.
•Collaborates on the development of trimestral and end of year reports.
•Takes part in the development of questionaries, surveys, graphs, maps, databases and work plans required by the grant.
•Takes part in calls and conferences with the CDC to develop progress reports.
•Develops, organizes, analyses, and evaluates primary and secondary databases.
•Takes part in training about health equity, social health deterrents and health disparities as required by the grant.
•Designs and implements systems for the procedure of epidemiologic data.
•Designs and presents the results of all the epidemiologic analysis that have taken place.
Special Notes:
This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by both the CDC Foundation and Puerto Rico Department of Health, in order to best support the territory of Puerto Rico in their public health programming.
This position is located in Puerto Rico. CDC Foundation retains the right to make adjustments to this as required.
The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.
Relocation expenses are not included.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law.
We comply with all applicable laws including E.O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). As a federal government contractor, we take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans.
The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.
Relocation expenses are not included.
