Job description
**Job Title: Surveillance Epidemiologist**
The Surveillance Epidemiologist is responsible for examining patterns of diseases, their prevalence, and the resulting health outcomes to detect outbreaks and potential health threats. This role involves creating and executing disease prevention initiatives, overseeing surveillance data systems, and sharing results with both public health authorities and the community at large. Applicants should have a bachelor’s degree in a pertinent scientific or social science discipline and a minimum of two years of experience in epidemiological research. Familiarity with statistical programs like SAS, R, or Stata is highly desirable.
Pima County provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
