Epidemiologist 2-Health-Bph-Office Of Epidemiology & Prevention Services-Kanawha Co.

Nature of Work

The person in this position is responsible for managing the food and waterborne disease surveillance program and serves as the expert in this area. This includes: developing and implementing disease information documents and protocols that guide providers, lab partners, and state and local public health entities in their response to reportable diseases; training and educating partners; summarizing and analyzing data and providing recommendations to stakeholders; as a liaison between state, local, and national health partners; facilitating compliance with grant requirements; and other duties as assigned, such as on-call rotations and outbreak response.

Minimum Qualifications

Training: A Doctorate degree from a regionally accredited college or university in epidemiology, public health, veterinary medicine, preventive medicine, medicine, biological, physical, behavioral or environmental sciences including at least two courses in epidemiology covering additional epidemiology principles, methods and design concepts, or at least two courses in statistical design methods courses for the behavioral sciences, or at least two publications in two different peer-reviewed journals, and at least one course in biostatistics or other research-oriented statistics course.
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A Master's degree from a regionally accredited college or university in epidemiology, public health, biology, nursing, physical, behavioral, natural, or veterinary sciences, preventive medicine, or medicine including two courses in epidemiology and one course in biostatistics OR certification in infection control (CIC); AND three years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid experience in epidemiology.

Substitution: Completion of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epidemic Intelligence Service or public health prevention specialist training can substitute for the required training.
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Bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university in biology, nursing, physical, behavioral, or natural sciences, AND five years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid experience in conducting epidemiology, including disease investigation, risk assessment or environmental epidemiology may substitute for the required training.
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Three years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid experience in performing Epidemiologist 1 responsibilities, including disease investigation, risk assessment, or environmental epidemiology may substitute for the required training.

Experience: Three years of full-time or equivalent part-time paid experience in entomology.