Senior Health Scientist – Associate
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Health Scientist — Senior Associate supporting federal public health surveillance program on neurological conditions. Engaging in epidemiology, surveillance science, and public health decision-making.
Responsibilities:
- Guidehouse is seeking a Health Scientist — Senior Associate to support a federal public health surveillance program focused on neurological conditions.
- This role will support scientific, epidemiologic, and surveillance activities that help a federal health client maintain, refine, routinize, expand, and disseminate population-based surveillance information.
- The Health Scientist will work as part of a multidisciplinary team supporting neuroepidemiology, surveillance science, data analytics, scientific documentation, dissemination, and research translation.
- The role will help translate complex evidence, data, methods, and analytic findings into high-quality scientific products that support public health decision-making, research, and practice.
- Support neuroepidemiology and surveillance science activities related to neurological condition surveillance, including Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and potential future neurological conditions.
- Conduct systematic, targeted, and rapid literature reviews to support surveillance methods, case definition development, evidence gap identification, and research prioritization.
- Support the development, refinement, documentation, and application of case definitions, surveillance methods, abstraction tools, decision rules, and review protocols.
- Review, synthesize, and interpret scientific literature, surveillance evidence, analytic findings, and data outputs to support surveillance estimates and public health products.
- Support validation studies and other epidemiologic analyses, including interpretation of findings, review of analytic outputs, quality checks, and documentation of methods and limitations.
- Collaborate with data analytics, visualization, communications, clinical neurology, and program management teams to produce scientific manuscripts, reports, presentations, tables, figures, maps, dashboards, and leadership-ready summaries.
- Support development and maintenance of SOPs, technical documentation, code annotations, abstraction guidance, publication trackers, evidence tables, quality control documentation, and knowledge management materials.
- Provide review of scientific and technical deliverables to ensure methodological rigor, consistency, clarity, and alignment with client expectations.
- Support dissemination of surveillance methods, findings, and products through manuscripts, reports, conference materials, briefings, stakeholder materials, and web-ready content.
- Coordinate with project leadership, federal client staff, subject matter experts, and multidisciplinary team members to track priorities, resolve issues, and maintain timely delivery of high-quality work products.
- Mentor or guide junior staff supporting literature review, abstraction, evidence synthesis, documentation, and surveillance-related deliverables.
- Deliver high-quality client service in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while maintaining scientific accuracy, transparency, and reproducibility.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in public health, epidemiology, health science, biology, neuroscience, psychology, health services research, statistics, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in public health, epidemiology, surveillance, scientific research, health sciences, evidence synthesis, or federal health consulting.
- Experience supporting public health surveillance, epidemiologic research, systematic reviews, evidence synthesis, scientific writing, or applied health research.
- Experience reviewing and interpreting scientific literature, methods documentation, analytic findings, and public health data products.
- Strong writing, editing, synthesis, and quality review skills, including the ability to translate technical content into clear scientific and programmatic deliverables.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, documents, and review cycles.
- Ability to collaborate with epidemiologists, analysts, clinicians, data scientists, communications specialists, and federal client stakeholders.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint or similar collaboration and documentation tools.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
Benefits:
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
- Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Basic Life & Supplemental Life
- Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Student Loan PayDown
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
- Skills Development & Certifications
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
- Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
- Mobility Stipend
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