Injury Surveillance Research Analyst (Research Analyst 3)
- Oregon Health Authority
- Portland OR
- Oct 15, 2020
Job Description
Job number: REQ-51605
To be considered for this position you must complete an online application at:
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This is a full-time, permanent classified position and is represented by a union.
The Oregon Health Authority (OHA), Public Health Division (PHD), Injury and Violence Prevention (IVP) Section in Portland, OR is recruiting for an Injury Surveillance Research Analyst to manage and disseminate non-fatal overdose, firearm injury, suicide attempt data. The data, education, consultation and technical assistance IVP provides through our partnerships as well as our work with policy makers, is intended to reduce the economic, social, and personal burden due to injury in Oregon.
What will you do?
As the Injury Surveillance Research Analyst, you will contribute to public health injury surveillance initiatives within the Injury and Violence Prevention (IVP) section by managing and disseminating non-fatal overdose, firearm injury and intentional self-harm data from the ESSENCE syndromic surveillance system, designing and completing data quality assessments, and developing reports of ESSENCE data for internal and external stakeholders. This position also manages dissemination of injury surveillance data to stakeholders via presentations, data visualizations and reports. This position performs regular updates to online injury data dashboards from ESSENCE and other data sources and conducts process and outcome evaluation of injury surveillance initiatives.
What are we looking for?
Requested Skills
- Minimum requirements: A bachelor's degree in public health or a related field that included six-quarter units in statistics or quantitative analysis methods and procedures, and one year experience using computerized applications to independently gather, compile, and analyze public health data and prepare narrative or statistical reports; OR four years of research experience using computerized applications to independently gather, compile, and analyze public health data and prepare narrative or statistical reports.
- Master's in public health with a statistics, research design and analysis and/or informatics focus is preferred.
- Experience with methods of epidemiologic surveillance, public health program evaluation, and quality assurance studies.
- Experience generating data reports.
- Experience working with relational databases, data linkage of large data sets using deterministic and probabilistic matching software such as Link King and Link Plus.
- Experience working with statistical software such as SAS, R or STATA.
- Experience with GIS (ArcGIS or QGIS).
- Experience with SQL for relational database management systems.
- Experience with interactive web applications such as R Shiny or Python.
- Experience presenting information to groups in person and via webinars.
- Experience posting research study results online using HTML.
- Proficiency in data visualization using Tableau and/or other tools.
- Proficiency in Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
- Experience promoting a culturally competent and diverse work environment
How to Apply
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Contact Information
Cyndi Phipps-Roman 503-569-0066
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