This position is currently funded from year to year through CDC cooperative agreements (grants). Some in-state and out of state travel is required. Job duties will include:

- Performing programmatic activities related to Clostridioides difficile surveillance under the Emerging Infections Program (EIP). - Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with hospital, clinical laboratory, and long- term care facility personnel. - Conducting monthly audits at area hospitals, laboratories, and long-term care facilities to ensure Emerging Infections Program pathogens are being reported to the Department of Health. - Conducting annual surveys of laboratory and long-term care facilities to understand their Clostridioides difficile laboratory testing and treatment practices. - Performing medical chart reviews for hospitals, outpatient clinics, and long-term care facilities. Coordinating the shipment of specimens from the State Public Health Lab to the CDC. - Participating in data collection, entry, cleaning, and analysis of Clostridioides difficile or other EIP surveillance data. - Clean and analyze data generated for other HAI projects, such as antimicrobial stewardship. - Preparing and delivering presentations on project topics, such as CDI, to local, state, and national partners. Assisting in the preparation of grant applications, progress reports, scientific articles and presentations, and other deliverables.

Substitution of Education for Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a master's degree in a health science, biomedical science, or environmental science field with experience equivalent to two years' work experience in epidemiology.

Desired Qualifications:

- Communicable disease surveillance experience at a local or state public health department. - Experience writing statistical and analytical programming code in SAS or R. - Experience with developing data visualizations using Tableau. - Experience developing, maintaining, and entering and extracting data from REDCap databases. - Experience in reviewing and abstracting medical records. - Experience in research (submitting IRBs, coordinating the project, quality assurance/data validation activities, creating surveys or case report forms, etc.).

The Tennessee Department of Health is an equal opportunity, equal access, affirmative action employer. Candidate must be eligible to work in the United States.

Degrees must be from an accredited college or university.