District 5-2 North Central

This fellowship position is in District 5-2 North Central in Macon, Georgia. The fellow selected for this position will be an employee of Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health for the duration of the fellowship but will spend their time working as a level 1 epidemiologist within the North Central district.  Fellows may be able to work remotely 2-3 days per week.

The Fellow can expect to engage in a variety of routine epidemiologic activities in this position including:

• Participating in surveillance team activities including working with all categories of disease areas such as enteric, food-borne, COVID, vaccine preventable, and other emerging diseases such as Mpox.
• Cross training in STD, HIV, overdose, TB, emergency preparedness, environmental health, and other areas of interest.
• Case follow-up, data management, and data analysis.

In addition to regular duties, the Fellow will need to complete an oral/poster presentation and at least two required analytic, evaluation, or quality improvement projects. Examples of projects in this district include:

• Participating on the primary response team for follow-up investigations on reports of COVID-19 (specifically in congregate care facilities), Mpox, and other emerging health threats and communicable disease outbreaks, to determine if they are accurate, and, if they meet the criteria to be deemed an outbreak based on current state outbreak definitions.
• Determining what measures need to be taken by stakeholders and recommending methods and resources available to them in order to ensure success.
• Working with interprofessional team(s) to analyze, publish, and disseminate public health information. Potential projects could be statistical reports (i.e. COVID data reports, Women’s Health, Child Health District Summaries, etc), annual data summaries (i.e. through program management program and quality improvement evaluations), and educational materials (i.e. vaccine equity, awareness campaigns for public health threats, etc). An effort will be made to assign the incoming fellow projects based on their interests.
• Participating in public health emergency preparedness planning, training, and response with a focus on updating plans based on lessons learned from COVID-19, Mpox, and other public health emergency responses such as sheltering events.
• Working with healthcare coalitions, such as Region F Healthcare Coalition, Middle GA Overdose Coalition, Middle GA Homeless Coalition partners and other community partners to assist with emergency preparedness, infection control, education, and community epidemiology projects.

Preferred Fellow background and skills include:

• Ability to efficiently manage multiple projects and appropriately prioritize new projects as they develop.
• Strong Microsoft Office Skills.