CDC Job Openings – Data Scientist

Job Description:

The incumbent serves as a Health Scientist performing data science work that requires extraction of knowledge from public health surveillance systems and programs at the local, state and national levels that are structured or unstructured for: analysis; improved understanding and communication; development/visualization of new concepts, and/or processes that add value to health services delivery and the decision making process.

Job Responsibilities:

• Consult and collaborate with public health professionals using statistical, data science, artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning), and in the collection, linkage, processing, coding, classification, and analysis of public health surveillance, research, and administrative health data.
• Assist in monitoring data quality issues as they relate to user data products, and collaborate with Information Technology professionals to develop automated systems and tools to process, clean, and verify data integrity.
• Provide analysis and supports data interpretation to both technical expert and lay users of public health data that include structured and unstructured data, such as free text, images, and data of mixed types.
• Collaborate with other professionals to conduct of surveillance, research, and analytical studies.
• Maintain current knowledge of developments in allied health sciences, modeling, and machine learning analysis, in conjunction with the use of technology to identify and evaluate new data science tools and methods to support current and future efforts

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or graduate/higher level degree: major study in an academic field related to the medical field, health sciences or allied sciences appropriate to the work of the position.
• This degree must be from an educational program from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained.

Job Details:

Company: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Auburn, ME, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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