Opportunity

Abt Associates seeks a qualified Senior Analyst Public Health Researcher in its Division of Health and Environment to support the COVID-19 Epidemiology Taskforce at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This mid-level position requires quantitative, writing and/or research competencies and skills. It is an ideal position for someone with a strong public health background who wishes to apply their knowledge to a range of research projects. This is a telework position until authorized by CDC to work on-site at CDC’s Roybal Campus.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide technical oversight and coordinate collection, management, and analysis of data from COVID-19 surveillance systems.
• Develop, revise, and review study protocols, questionnaires, and other data collection forms.
• Provide quality assurance guidance to technical and program staff to ensure data integrity including preparing program guidelines to increase consistency, performing necessary data checks and managing datasets and data documentation.
• Maintain relevant IRB approvals for research with human subjects at CDC and provide technical support for approvals at collaborating institutions.
• Liaise with principal investigators, site coordinators, study enrollers, and laboratory personnel; or jurisdictional principal investigators, coordinators and data managers.
• Write and troubleshoot SAS programs, organize, test, and streamline the surveillance system data components, and create SAS datasets for analyses.
• Perform descriptive analyses of data for epidemiological studies using SAS or an equivalent package (e.g. R).
• Collect data from sites using Excel to maintain data dashboards in Power BI.
• Assist with preparation of scientific manuscripts for peer-reviewed publication, develop data reports, write programs, and analyze data as needed for reports, abstracts, presentations, and papers.