Data Scientist

The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1.9 billion and launched more than 1,300 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of programs in the United States and in more than 90 countries last year. Visit www.cdcfoundation.org for more information.  

Location: Remote, must be based in the United States

Salary Range: $92,700-$134,275 per year, plus benefits. Individual salary offers will be based on experience and qualifications unique to each candidate.

Position Type: Grant funded, limited-term opportunity

The Data Scientist will play a crucial role in advancing the CDC Foundation's mission by leveraging data to inform strategic decisions and initiatives in a public health organization. This role is aligned to the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI). WAI is a federally funded CDC Foundation program with the goal of helping the nation’s public health agencies by providing them with the technology and data experts they need to accelerate their information system improvements.

 

Working within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Public Health Administration (PHA), the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Public Health Administration (PHA), the Data Scientist will utilize advanced analytics, statistical techniques, and innovative data science approaches (such as machine learning algorithms) to derive insights from the implementation and use of Admission, Discharge, Transfer (ADT) messages for public health use. Activities may include supporting the State of Michigan (SOM) centralized information technology (IT) owner in design and implementation of a decoupled ADT data environment, pilot projects demonstrating increased interoperability between existing public health technology environments and supporting ADT data quality improvement initiatives. These efforts will require engagement across MDHHS and local public health, with the SOM centralized IT owner, with the state health information exchange (HIE) entity (MiHIN), and other internal and external public health partners. These efforts will ultimately enable cross-domain use for MDHHS and local health department public health practitioners, improved ADT data quality, and furthering MDHHS’s ability to develop new public health insights through de-siloed data access. Work activities will be adjusted for the timeline of the position.

 

This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by the CDC Foundation in order to best support the public health programming.