Epidemiological Analyst
Role Overview
Develop and maintain enhanced surveillance systems for vaccine-preventable diseases, working with professionals within and outside UKHSA.
Use vaccine and immunisation knowledge, database tools and statistical packages to analyse epidemiological data.
Produce routine and ad hoc outputs for national and international reports, information requests and peer-reviewed articles.
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Role overview
Develop and maintain enhanced surveillance systems for vaccine-preventable diseases, working with professionals within and outside UKHSA.
Use vaccine and immunisation knowledge, database tools and statistical packages to analyse epidemiological data.
Produce routine and ad hoc outputs for national and international reports, information requests and peer-reviewed articles.
Key responsibilities
- Maintain surveillance systems and databases with scientific, clinical, laboratory and health protection colleagues.
- Create queries and validation checks to remove duplicates and improve data quality and completeness.
- Liaise with stakeholders, clinicians, laboratories and Health Protection Teams about surveillance data, cases and outbreaks.
- Maintain disease-specific website pages and dashboards, ensuring content is validated and meets relevant guidelines.
- Run database queries and prepare annual surveillance reports; support ad hoc queries, Parliamentary Questions and information requests.
- Prepare annual datasets for WHO and ECDC, and maintain disease-specific Reference Manager databases.
- Contribute to scientific papers and reports for the Department of Health and JCVI; present findings at meetings and conferences.
- Support other infectious disease surveillance databases and websites, including database querying and report running.
Requirements and development
- Understand vaccines, how they work and their utility in the national immunisation programme.
- Be proficient with database platforms and tools including R, MS Access and SQL.
- Have experience using statistical packages for epidemiological analysis and writing scientific papers for publication.
- Be comfortable presenting research at local and national meetings and conferences.
- Maintain continuous professional development, agree training needs through appraisal and complete mandatory training.
Location
- The listed work location is Colindale, London (Scientific Campus).
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