Epidemiologist at University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

Key responsibilities shall include, but not be limited to, providing the following services to Global Programs and/ or its affiliates:

• Provide leadership and oversight on assigned HIV surveillance projects
• Maintain collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH), CDC-Kenya and other agencies and institutions, and key partners
• Develop survey protocols, tools and training materials
• Develop and review analysis plans, provide interpretation for analysis and write up results.
• Develop and support implementation plans for assigned projects
• Provide feedback and guidance to the statistical team on analysis and statistical outputs
• Facilitate and lead dissemination of surveillance data t`hrough preparation of presentations, reports and scientific manuscripts
• Work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor

Minimum Requirements:

• A Master’s or PhD degree in epidemiology or related field is required
• Minimum of eight years working in epidemiology, public health, surveillance or related field is required
• Demonstrated knowledge of concepts of disease surveillance and epidemiology
• Experience and technical expertise with surveillance systems and surveys using varying sampling methodologies
• Experience preparing survey and surveillance protocols, technical reports and scientific manuscripts
• Experience capacity building on surveillance and epidemiological methods
• Strong interpersonal skills in working teams with varying areas of expertise to accomplish project objectives
• Demonstrated strong communication skills; ability to effectively communicate both orally and written complicated epidemiological information to non-technical persons
• Proficiency in either SAS, STATA or R statistical software packages
• Fluency in English required