Senior Epidemiologist

Role: Senior Epidemiologist Location: Providence, RI Duration: 6 Months Responsibilities:

• Serve as subject matter expert for workstream content, including being aware of & communicating changing national guidelines
• Serve as lead thought partner on all reporting related to the workstream. Work collaboratively with leadership and workstream stakeholders & take the lead on planning & developing reporting that tells the story of the Covid-19 workstream.
• Independently code, in SAS, all reporting needed for the workstream.
• Draw insights from both the output independently created as well as how that output might connect to the output of colleagues on other workstreams.
• Speak up upon notice of an interesting trend or an unexpected result. Have plausible explanations ready when bringing this up to leadership.
• Package reporting highlights and insights in slide decks & be prepared to present them in virtual meetings or provide robust data notes for leadership to present.
• Contribute toward process improvements with respect to data management & analysis
• Assist with data cleaning & data management of data relevant to the workstream.
• Responsible for managing and synthesizing the work of 1-2 analysts managing their own surveillance workstreams or working on related surveillance efforts.
• Present data to stakeholders

• 3+ Years SAS experience (beyond coursework). Specifically knowing how to:
• Make tables using proc tabulate and proc freq
• Make graphs using proc sgplot or excel
• Merge & join datasets together, & in particular know how to handle 1-1, 1-many, & many-many merges.
• Import & export tables, graphs & line lists.
• Have expertise in processing data including synthesizing across rows of data, handling character and numeric data & being able to convert to either as needed.
• Have robust QC and debugging techniques to ensure quality output.
• Have a solid understandi