Public Health Analyst I

Description

Company: Lantana Consulting Group provides services and software for standards-based health information exchange. We have built our expertise through nearly two decades of development and deployment of technical specifications and interoperability solutions. As a distributed company with no single brick and mortar office, Lantana can hire the best available talent and offer a flexible work schedule. We are a rapidly growing Employee-Owned organization who takes pride in improving public health, quality of care, and research.

Primary purpose

Provides consulting, analytics, training, and development services to clients. Helps healthcare facilities and software vendors understand and submit data on healthcare associated infections (HAI) to a national surveillance system. Leveragse analytic skills and public-health knowledge to provide actionable insights.

A successful candidate will:

• Develop trainings, project updates, and presentations on CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) HAI work for clients, stakeholders, and partners.
• Provide direct end-user education and technical support.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to plan, develop, and implement projects; maintain documentation of processes and procedures.
• Test application(s) and provide feedback to software developers and quality-assurance technicians.
• Conduct analyses of healthcare and public-health data in SAS; interpret, summarize, and present findings to relevant stakeholders.
• Develop materials, review documentation, troubleshoot issues, and report results.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and changes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health or other health-science field 
• At least one year of relevant work experience 
• Experience with public-health surveillance systems and a demonstrated understanding of key surveillance principles and practices
• Experience using SAS or R to import and manipulate data/datasets and to conduct analyses to summarize surveillance data and evaluate data quality 
• Ability to communicate complex data findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team
• Attention to detail
• Ability to successfully complete a Position of Public Trust Level 5 background investigation 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Public Health or other health-science field 
• Experience with HAI data 
• Knowledge of NHSN 

Additional Job Information:

• This position is 100% work-from-home/remote apart from the annual company meeting, held as conditions allow.
• Lantana is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants for current openings will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, veteran status or on the basis of disability. 
• For this position, we are not accepting applicants outside of the United States.