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Emory University is a distinguished institution of higher learning, recognized for its dedication to academic excellence, groundbreaking research, and fostering an inclusive and innovative learning environment. The Emory Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analytics and Training Hub (CIDMATH) is actively looking for a Public Health Program Associate (PHPA) to join our Wastewater-based Epidemiology (WBE) & Modeling team. CIDMATH, a $17.5 million CDC-funded program, focuses on developing innovative infectious disease models and providing state-of-the-art training for infectious disease modelers. Quantitatively well-characterized shedding information for pathogens and biomarkers can be critical for interpreting wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) results. The Shedding Hub project (https://github.com/shedding-hub/shedding-hub) aims to aggregate publicly available shedding data (in stool, urine, sputum, and respiratory samples) and provide quantitative shedding models for various pathogens and biomarkers. The Shedding Hub consists of an open data repository, a modeling code repository, tutorials on modeling for educational purposes, and a dashboard showing the estimated shedding dynamics and their impact on the interpretation of WBE results.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Under limited supervision, uses a basic knowledge of public health principles to analyze, develop, implement, and promote new and creative strategies and solutions to address public health issues and challenges.
• Addresses public health issues by providing education, technical assistance, advocacy, public awareness, and research.
• Works with programs or studies designed to evaluate the prevalence or surveillance of public health issues and the effectiveness of targeted interventions.
• May provide technical assistance to organizations to include presentations, web-based resources, strategies, and educational forums to address specific public health issues.
• May work with clinical study sites on patient recruitment and data collection standards. Assists with data collection and data analysis.
• Contributes to proposals, protocols, data analysis plans, reports, manuscripts, and presentation of study findings.
• May assist in designing, developing, and conducting targeted training initiatives.
• May collaborate with external organizations to develop action plans and goals to achieve specific objectives.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.

ADDITIONAL JOB DETAILS:

• This position is responsible for the implementation of literature screening, data extraction, data standardization, and modeling code transformation for the Shedding Hub.
• This position is responsible for the communication with external researchers to obtain access to shedding related data and modeling codes currently not openly available.
• This position is responsible for the development of shedding data modeling tutorials from existing models.
• This position oversees and supports the student research assistants of the Shedding Hub project.
• This position reports to the principal investigator of the Shedding Hub.

Key Responsibilities:

• Under limited supervision, uses a basic knowledge of public health principles to analyze, develop, implement, and promote new and creative strategies and solutions to address public health issues and challenges
• Addresses public health issues by providing education, technical assistance, advocacy, public awareness, and research
• Works with programs or studies designed to evaluate the prevalence or surveillance of public health issues and the effectiveness of targeted interventions
• May provide technical assistance to organizations to include presentations, web-based resources, strategies, and educational forums to address specific public health issues
• May work with clinical study sites on patient recruitment and data collection standards
• Assists with data collection and data analysis
• Contributes to proposals, protocols, data analysis plans, reports, manuscripts, and presentation of study findings
• May assist in designing, developing, and conducting targeted training initiatives
• May collaborate with external organizations to develop action plans and goals to achieve specific objectives
• Performs related responsibilities as required

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• A master's degree in Public Health, a master of science degree in Public Health or Health Education, OR a master's degree in Development Practice OR a master's degree in another field and one year of public health experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Epidemiology, Public Health, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Candidate must be a self-starter and work well both independently and in team settings.
• Strong communication skills are required.
• Proficiency in Python or R is required. Experience in literature searches and strong writing skills are preferred.
• Experience working with student research assistants is preferred.
• Experience with Bayesian methods and tools (e.g., Stan or JAGS) or infectious disease modeling is a plus

NOTE: This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to commute to Emory University on a flexible weekly schedule based upon business needs.  Schedule is based on agreed upon guidelines of department. This role requires residency in the state of GA. Emory reserves the right to change remote work status with notice to employee.

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