NOTE:
This is a nine-month work assignment (Oct 2019 - June 2020)
DESCRIPTION OF WORK
The USAF School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) provides Aerospace Medicine Training, Education, and Consultation to Enhance Warfighter Performance and Combat Casualty Care for World Wide Operations in Garrison and War. USAFSAM is the center for aeromedical education, training, and consultation in direct support of USAF, DOD, and in operations. USAFSAM also provides peacetime and contingency support in hyperbarics, human performance, clinical and environmental health, expeditionary medical support, and aeromedical evacuation.
The candidate shall provide assistance with consultative support to USAFSAM/PHR on outbreak investigations and special data requests. The candidate shall also support field unit requests for consultation and analysis of specific issues when tasked by USAFSAM/PHR. This person shall further contribute to the field units through active participation in professional conferences, creating and presenting training material, and publications of peer-reviewed manuscripts.
DESCRIPTION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
The candidate shall have...
- Master’s Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics or other relevant Master’s Degree
- Be proficient in Microsoft Office and at least one statistical package (i.e., SAS, SPSS, or STATA)
- Demonstrated strong knowledge of epidemiology, biostatistics and public health.
DESCRIPTION OF EXPERIENCE DESIRED - Public Health Board Certification
DESCRIPTION OF TASKS
The candidate shall...
- Utilize the following health surveillance systems: Air Force Disease Reporting Surveillance internet (AFDRSi), Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), Air Force Mortality Registry, Defense Occupational and Environmental Health Readiness System -Hearing Conservation (DOEHRS-HC), the Executive Information Decision and Support Data Mart (EIDS M2), Standard Ambulatory Disease Registry (SADR), Standard Inpatient Disease Registry (SIDR), and Aeromedical Services Information Management System (ASIMS).
- Assess and monitor the health status of the USAF population by analyzing surveillance databases to include ESSENCE, AFDRSi, and EIDS M2 and provide feedback, support and quality control, and administrative maintenance associated with these data systems.
- Possess the expertise and capability to utilize the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) and Health Level 7 (HL7).
- Assist and advise military team leaders on outbreak investigations, and coordinate novel public health research.
- Perform data collection in support of USAFSAM/PHR’s mission.
- Assist health surveillance data. Entry and information requests for users/customers requesting data and/or data-related support services (e.g. data analysis, data interpretation, report generation) and provide input on data systems design, upgrading, and integration.
- Participate in collaborative efforts to increase data sharing capabilities and surveillance partnerships with base-level users and other principal stakeholders in the USAFSAM/PHR surveillance systems.
- Be familiar with USAFSAM/PHR data repositories that are stored in Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access and Oracle relational databases.
- Collect data from various databases as well as other relevant information as presented in various formats on the USAFSAM/PHR dynamic webpages.
- Establish the relationship of available data to existing data sets, map the data between data elements and coding for these specific data elements, establish data storage architecture requirements, and create a comprehensive data dictionary.
- Possess advanced analytical skills in public health/epidemiology and epidemiological study design and execution.
- Possess expertise in descriptive statistics, Rapid SQL, MS Publisher, Adobe Acrobat, as well as STATA, SAS, and/or SPSS statistical software.
- Provide assistance to USAFSAM/PHR data users in producing timely and accurate routine and ad hoc reports, special study methods, institutional review board (IRB) proposals and surveillance protocols.
- Assist in prioritizing research areas, work with base-level, MAJCOM and Air Force-level personnel in determining which health issues among AF members require future study, for the purpose of prioritization of these research efforts.
- Create research protocols for prioritized research areas including Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative training and submit these protocols to the appropriate IRB.
- Coordinate with appropriate personnel at the identified research location site; generate summary reports of findings for base-level personnel, USAFSAM/PHR, the MAJCOM, Air Force Medical Operations Agency (AFMOA), Air Force Medical Support Agency (AFMSA), and the Defense Health Agency (DHA).
- Assist in the design and maintain data management protocols and policies for USAFSAM/PHR surveillance reporting and special projects.
- Identify and recommend improvements for existing data collection/management, and designs requirements/protocols for new systems.
- Assist in the drafting of written communication for internal and external purposes and support other USAFSAM /PHR programs.
- Provide conference support assistance by active participation in professional conferences, preparation of posters and presentations to be presented by USAFSAM/PHR personnel, and publication of peer-reviewed manuscripts.
- Brief research findings at appropriate meetings or forums as determined by the Government.
- Be current in Scientific and Technical Information (STINFO) training.
- Provide technical automation support for all versions of MS Windows, Microsoft Office (e.g., MS Access, MS Excel, MS Publisher), MS SQL, Adobe, and /or ARC GIS.
- Provide data creation and administration in support of USAFSAM/PHR’s analytical capabilities.
- Document products for the actual computer code used in order for government personnel to access these files for review approval or for generating copies as required.
- Incorporate permanent reports into a menu driven format to allow transparent user manipulation or reproduction of these reports, including formatting macros.
- Build training materials in the fields of public health and epidemiology and provide training workshops which focuses on epidemiology or surveillance related subjects at the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine.
- Provide training to USAFSAM/PHR personnel on all data products created.
- Educate USAFSAM students, and others as appropriate.
- Provide advisory and assistance support to USAFSAM/PHR on outbreak investigations, library research and special data requests.