District 3-5 DeKalb Public Health
This fellowship posting is in District 3-5 Dekalb Public Health in Decatur, 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 DeKalb District. The Fellow should expect to report fully in person, but may be able to work remotely for 1 day per week.
The Fellow can expect to engage in a variety of routine epidemiologic activities in this position including:
- Assists in the implementation of timely disease intervention strategies to decrease the prevalence of communicable diseases.
- Designs, implements, and maintains disease surveillance systems and/or best practices.
- Collects, analyzes, and interprets statistical data and prepares reports.
- Collaborates with Georgia Public Health Laboratory in context of outbreak investigations
- Conducts engagement and outreach with community members and/or stakeholders affected by or interested in disease outbreaks or data
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:
- Data Standardization Project: The fellow will work with other Epi Team members and other DeKalb Public Health divisions on the Data Standardization Project. Divisions that the fellow may interact with in the context of this project include Health Assessment and Promotion, Refugee Health, Environmental Health, and HIV/STI. A strategic plan format will be used along with strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat (SWOT) analyses, writing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and providing recommendations and creating tools to standardize and improve data collection practices in a local public health setting.
- Implementation of REDCap in Community Health Projects: The fellow will collaborate with programs across DKPH (including those within the Health Assessment and Promotion division) to implement REDCap into the data collection practices and create standardized REDCap surveys and questions to encompass data situations that these programs frequently undertake. The fellow will work with programs to build out REDCap surveys to fulfill existing data collection needs and will create a repository of questions that can be used in future surveys as data collection needs evolve.
Preferred Fellow background and skills include:
- Closely supervised work experience demonstrating competence in conducting public health surveillance, analyzing surveillance data, reporting analytic results, and conducting outbreak investigations.
- Competence and experience in conducting public health surveillance and analyzing epidemiologic data at the local or state public health level
- Excellent communication skills, particularly with diverse members of the public (e.g, through customer service experience)
- Ability to translate complex data/concepts into everyday language is strongly preferred
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.
