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Eagle Global Scientific (EGS) is seeking a Statistician to provide professional statistical/epidemiologic support in the conduct of research to identify ways to incorporate data on structural and social determinants of health into surveillance and epidemiologic research for advancing minority health and health equity science.
Responsibilities:

• Plans and carries out quality control programs and selects appropriate statistical and epidemiologic methods to be used in quality control analysis. This ensures the reliability and consistency of the data while measuring the data limitations. Efforts include the identification of inadequacies and inconsistencies in data; development of procedures and methodology to modify the data; and overseeing the modification of the data.
• Directs and coordinates the work of other professional staff who carry out smaller segments of more complex studies covering a wide range of topics and who analyze and prepare written analysis for incumbents review of their substantive findings. Personally analyzes and prepares the more complex aspects of these studies which requires more sophisticated methodology and/or advanced computer skills. Provides technical assistance to other professionals on the use of complex statistical and epidemiologic techniques. Examines reports and articles prepared by others within the organization as part of the peer review process.
• Initiates, formulates, plans and executes analytic research projects pertinent to the activities of the organization and researches the quality of methodologies and measures pertinent to the assessment and summarization of the health status of Americans. Efforts include specification of research questions; selection of the databases appropriate to the problem; development of a plan of analysis incorporating the appropriate statistical and epidemiologic techniques; execution of the analysis; and interpretation and dissemination of the findings.
• Prepares comprehensive reports of study results which include discussion of substantive health issues and research objectives; assessment of the adequacy and quality of data used in the analyses; and explanation of the methodologies, results, and relevance to health issues as they relate to the epidemiological problem under study. Disseminates results of research projects in a wide range of venues including publications, peer reviewed journals, summaries, manuscripts, and special reports. Presents results to the scientific community at professional meetings and conferences.
• Serves as technical expert with respect to all phases of statistical interpretation relating to epidemiologic topics under consideration. Maintains contact with consumers, who are usually professional personnel of government and non-government organizations. Represents the organization at professional meetings and conferences where the subjects under consideration are concerned with the broad projects assigned to the incumbent. Prepares papers and reports for presentation to professional groups and for publication in professional journals.

Preferred Qualifications - expected to know how to apply cutting-edge tools and processes to extract meaning from data, ability to use statistical concepts such as probability, inference, and modeling and how to apply them in practice. Incumbent should be familiar with the use of R software (or similarly related software)* environment, and learn R, statistical concepts, and data analysis techniques simultaneously.