Data Scientist

This position is located in the Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. This announcement will close at 11:59 PM, on the day that 50 applications have been received or on the closing date, whichever is first.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY As a Data Scientist, you will: Research, Analysis, and Data Evaluation Consults and collaborates with statistical, data science, artificial intelligence and public health professionals in the collection, linkage, processing, mining, coding, classification, and analysis of public health surveillance, research, and administrative health data. Technical Consultation Brings and develops expertise in the fields of health science, artificial intelligence, and programming languages as applied to public health. Data Presentation and Dissemination Assists in preparing comprehensive reports that include discussion of substantive issues related to data science methodology for public health surveillance and related applications, assessment of the adequacy and quality of data used in the analyses, and explanation of the methods, results, and relevance to the health issue under study. Collaborates with Informatics and Information Technology professionals to develop data storage and management solutions that enable analysis of large structured and unstructured datasets. Participates as the expert in work groups focused on data science and statistical and machine learning, as applied to public health data.