Internship and Data Resource - The COVID-19 Data Project

The COVID-19 pandemic is a globally historic event that has led to a wide range of state responses. Have you been curious about the types of responses? Do you want to be a part of the team collecting and analyzing policies, cases, deaths, and disparities? Please consider becoming an Emergency Data Relief internship on The COVID-19 Data Project. The COVID-19 Data Project is organized by a dedicated, volunteer community of statisticians, epidemiologists, students, healthcare experts, software engineers, policy researchers, and passionate professionals. The team is currently looking for interns. The project is backed by BroadStreet, a data and software company for social good.

We recruit monthly. The next internship starts February 1st.
Sign up for the internship at: https://learn.broadstreet.io/internships/    

FOR POLICY RESEARCHERS - Attend a Webinar! 
Are you interested in learning more about a free policy dataset containing over 4,500 coded executive orders relating to COVID-19? Hear about our ongoing data collection process and what data are available at our informational webinar. 

Webinar: COVID-19 Policies ~ Datasets for policy researchers 
Date & Time: February 4, 2021 at 2 pm EST / 1pm CST 
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eVkzMwdtTACVOIWG59qXtg 

World Health Organization: Advisor, Health Promotion Position

A permanent post in health promotion has just opened at PAHO. Applications close on 25 February! Below is the link to apply:

https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2100314&tz=GMT-05%3A00&tzname=America%2FNew_York

OBJECTIVE OF THE OFFICE/DEPARTMENT

This requisition is for employment at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO)

The Department of Family, Health Promotion and Life Course (FPL) of the Pan American Health Organization promotes, coordinates and implements technical cooperation at the regional, sub regional and country levels, emphasizing the central role of the family and community to foster a culture of health promotion and protection in which health is a social value and a human right. FPL focuses on the development and implementation of programs for women and men’s health; sexual and reproductive health; maternal and neonatal health; the integrated health and development of children and adolescents; the health of aging populations; food and nutrition; comprehensive family immunization and leads innovative, inter-sectoral and strategic efforts to address the social determinants of health.

Epidemiologist Position Opening in Tracking Program - Wisconsin Dept of Health (Deadline: February 19, 2021)

The epidemiologist provides epidemiologic leadership within the Wisconsin Environmental Public Health Tracking program to develop tools to increase the accessibility and availability of data on health outcomes and related environmental hazards and exposures.

The closing date for this position is Friday, February 19, 2021 (11:55pm). Please see the position posting for more details.

 

Due to COVID-19, this position will be remote until it is safe to return to in person work. Note that this is UW position, but it will be located at the State Office Building at 1 W. Wilson.

The Occupational Health Internship Program

The Occupational Health Internship Program is a national summer program dedicated to helping students learn about the field of occupational health and safety (OHS) from those most at stake: working people. Since 2004, OHIP has played a key role in training, mentoring and inspiring a new generation of OHS professionals to prevent job injury and disease through partnerships with labor and worker organizations. Learn more about this internship experience here. 

Rush University Medical Center is hiring!

Epi Research Coordinator 2 

Rush University Medical Center is hiring a Epi Research Coordinator 2 who will coordinate moderately complex Epidemiological, Behavioral or Human Translational, or Population Health research studies and perform a variety of duties including the collection, compilation and documentation of research data, or assist in the coordination of more complex studies. The Coordinator 2 partners with other members of the research team to ensure the research is conducted in accordance with the study protocol, local, state, and federal guidelines related to epidemiologic/ behavioral/ translational research. 

Epi Research Assistant

Rush University Medical Center is hiring a Epi Research Assistant who will be responsible for collecting information from participants according to the research study protocols. The Epi Research Assistant may conduct interviews, epidemiological, social or behavioral assessments, and collect data and/or biological samples from research participants and families in studies.