[Remote] Epidemiologist III (Data Strategy, Cross-Cutting Surveillance, & Enteric Disease Surveillance)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Oklahoma State Department of Health is seeking an Epidemiologist III to support cross-cutting infectious disease surveillance and data strategy, as well as enteric disease surveillance. The role improves surveillance data quality, analysis, reporting, and systems, and supports outbreak detection, response, and federal reporting.

Responsibilities

• Provides consultation to program areas on data analysis, visualization, and automation to support standardization of surveillance methodologies across infectious disease program areas
• Designs and implements reproducible and automated approaches to surveillance data management, analysis, visualization, and reporting
• Develops technical products using tools such as SAS, R, SQL, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Query, Excel, DAX, APIs, and related technologies
• Supports epidemiologically informed surveillance system design and maintenance through requirements development, business-rule design, testing, validation, data mapping, and implementation
• Develops and conducts surveillance data-quality assessments and identifies systemic issues affecting completeness, validity, consistency, classification, timeliness, or reporting
• Supports annual reconciliation, CDC reporting validation, historical data updates, and resolution of state-to-federal data discrepancies
• Supports infectious disease program areas in preparing technical reports, surveillance summaries, dashboards, presentations, and other data products. May also lead the development of similar deliverables when the scope involves contribution from more than one program area
• Serves as a senior technical resource, leads complex surveillance projects, and mentors less experienced epidemiologists without formal supervisory responsibility
• Serves as a senior surveillance epidemiologist for enteric diseases, including routine surveillance, trend and cluster monitoring, outbreak investigation, and interpretation of epidemiologic, laboratory, and whole-genome sequencing data
• Serves as a surveillance point of contact for CDC and other federal partners and supports required reporting, grant deliverables, national calls, data requests, and coordination with public health laboratory partners
• Conducts advanced epidemiologic and statistical analyses to monitor infectious disease trends, identify emerging issues, support outbreak detection and response, and inform public health decision-making
• Demonstrates knowledge of and supports mission, vision, value statements, standards, policies and procedures, operating instructions, confidentiality standards, and the code of ethical behavior
• Works effectively in team environment, participating and assisting their peers

Skills

• Master of Science or Master of Public Health degree with an emphasis on epidemiology, biostatistics, biological, medical, or health science
• A minimum of four years experience in public health informatics and infectious disease surveillance
• A doctorate (PHD or DrPH) in epidemiology
• A minimum one year of qualifying experience in public health informatics and infectious disease surveillance
• 6 semester hours in epidemiological methods and 6 semester hours of other epidemiological coursework and 9 semester hours in statistical methods and analysis

Benefits

• Contractor can telework/remote

Company Overview

• AROHA is a leading global provider of end-to-end, technology-enabled business solutions, including ERP, SCM, PLM, WMS, CRM, portal, e-commerce, application development, project services, e-learning, training, staffing, call center, and global sourcing solutions. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://www.arohatechnologies.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• Aroha Technologies, Inc has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 14 in 2026, 14 in 2025, 22 in 2024, 25 in 2023, 18 in 2022, 28 in 2021, 43 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.