District 9-2 Southeast
This fellowship position is in District 9-2 Southeast in Waycross, Georgia. The fellow selected for this position will be an employee of Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health for the duration of the fellowship but will spend their time working as a level 1 epidemiologist within the Southeast district. The Fellow should expect to work in-person, although a hybrid work schedule may become available based on performance.
The Fellow can expect to engage in a variety of routine epidemiologic activities in this position including:
- Investigation of all reportable conditions excluding HIV.
- Routine surveillance and data cleaning
- Public health communications
In addition to regular duties, the Fellow will need to complete an oral/poster presentation and at least two required analytic, evaluation, or quality improvement projects. Examples of projects in this district include:
- Community Partnership — The “HIV/STI Provider Network” Expansion: The fellow will lead a Provider Engagement & Partnership Project aimed at increasing the number of high-volume” clinical partners reporting into our surveillance system and offering PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis). The fellow will conduct a gap analysis to identify private clinics and urgent care centers in high-incidence zip codes that are not currently integrated into our referral network. They will develop a “Provider Toolkit,” facilitate training sessions on trauma-informed STI screening, and establish a formal feedback loop between community clinicians and the Health Department to improve the speed of Partner Services (DIS) interventions
- Analytic, Evaluation, & Informatics — STI “Early Warning” & Surveillance Evaluation: The fellow will lead a Comprehensive Surveillance Evaluation and Geospatial Analysis of syphilis and HIV co-infection trends within the district. The fellow will evaluate the “timeliness and completeness” of current laboratory reporting to identify bottlenecks in the surveillance pipeline. Following the evaluation, they will perform a Hotspot Analysis using GIS software to correlate incident cases with social vulnerability indices (SVI), such as housing instability or lack of transportation. The final deliverable will be a Predictive Risk Dashboard that helps the epidemiology team anticipate where the next cluster may emerge, rather than simply reacting to past data.
Preferred Fellow background and skills include:
- Customer service experience
- Strong Microsoft Office skills
Emory Rollins Epidemiology Fellowship
The Rollins Epidemiology Fellowship’s mission is to enhance Georgia’s state and local public health programs by training exceptional epidemiologists who passionately serve their communities through critical surveillance, outbreak response, and general public health practice.
