District 3-4 Gwinnett, Newton, Rockdale
This fellowship position is in District 3-4 Gwinnett, Newton, Rockdale (GNR) in Lawrenceville, 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 GNR District. The Fellow should expect to work in-person, although a hybrid work schedule may become available to the fellow based on performance.
The Fellow can expect to engage in a variety of routine epidemiologic activities in this position including:
- Engaging in disease investigation activities for animal bites/rabies and arboviral diseases.
- Participating in daily on-call functionality and assisting with outbreak and case investigations for other notifiable disease.
- Cross-training in all notifiable diseases.
- Leading syndromic surveillance investigations and other activities.
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 Analysis Project: The fellow will assist with creating and maintaining an internally developed dashboard utilizing REDCap, R, Tableau or other data visualization platforms. The fellow will have responsibility for pulling, analyzing, and submitting both qualitative and quantitative infectious disease data for our Epidemiology and Community Health Data Dashboard. The data on the dashboard will need to be pulled and updated incrementally throughout the year. The fellow will work collaboratively with our Data Epidemiologist and Chronic Disease Epidemiologist on this project. This project will fulfill the fellow’s Data Analytics and Assessment Core Competency requirement.
- Program Evaluation Project: The fellow will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with the Epidemiology and Infectious Disease teams to continue to standardize and improve program evaluation and analytics. A current ECRC fellow is developing a standardized program report and analytics for the District’s ongoing HIV, STI, and TB Prevention Programs and assisting with the development of a GNR Public Health Infectious Disease Dashboard. Gwinnett County is among the 57 jurisdictions with the highest new case rates of HIV in the nation. As such, increased efforts on prevention activities, and developing and maintaining analytics to measure program impact are underway. The fellow will also have the opportunity to participate in outreach and education efforts aimed at the provision of equitable and inclusive services for the population disproportionately impacted with the HIV epidemic, and additionally, assist with infectious disease investigations. GNR HIV Prevention staff, and CDC Public Health Associates support these initiatives.
Preferred Fellow background and skills include:
- Experience and success working independently and as part of a team.
- Experience working in fast-paced environments.
- Ability to multitask.
- Customer service experience.
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.
