The Illinois Department of Public Health is hiring an epidemiologist in its Office of Racial and Cultural Health Equity. This hourly full-time contractual position pays $50 per hour. Work can be done remotely from any location.

This position performs disease surveillance, data analysis, data transformation, and support reporting for the refugee health program and supports monitoring and evaluation to inform programmatic decision-making. The successful candidate will have significant past experience working with refugee, immigrant, and migrant communities along with the organizations that support them.

Job responsibilities include:

• Completing routine, programmatic/federal/state required reporting
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis of COVID-19 impact on refugee immigrant and migrant populations
• Designing special surveillance activities to understand the impact of COVID-19 and RIM populations
• Researching scientific and evidenced based practice to identify solutions to refugee health issues, particularly those identified relating to COVID disparity
• Using the ReHAPI, EDN, WRAPS, EDW, INEDDS, ICARE and other databases to identify trends in health outcomes to help create targeted approaches to decrease identified disparities
• Assisting in technical assistance to community-based organizations

Requirements include a Masters in Public Health with a focus in epidemiology and/or biostatistics, or higher level of education such as PhD with focus in epidemiology/biostatistics, as well as 3-5 years experience in health surveillance, complex data analysis, data transformation, program evaluation and monitoring, reporting, presentation, and interpretation of data and statistics. At least 5 years of complex data analysis is preferred.

This is a temporary contractual position that does not include any benefits. The term of this contract is for two years; however, it is “at will” and may be terminated by the the department without notice.

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