Injury Prevention Specialist

12 hours ago


Austin, Texas, United States Texas Department of Aging & Disability Services Full time
Job Summary:

The Texas Department of Aging & Disability Services seeks a highly skilled Injury and Violence Prevention Epidemiologist III to join our team in Austin, Texas. This position is eligible for full-time telework.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Serve as the primary liaison for data and data quality of programs, providing consultation, presentations, and troubleshooting.
  • Develop and implement advanced epidemiologic investigations following new or standardized scientific policies/protocols.
  • Oversee data abstraction, prepare data quality reports, and ensure data quality meets or exceeds defined criteria.
Essential Functions:

(30%) Develop and improve tools to enter death certificates into the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) and create Child Fatality Review Team (CFRT) case spreadsheets using SAS, monitoring data quality and data reporting.

(30%) Develop and implement advanced epidemiologic investigations collecting, analyzing, and evaluating data, communicating results, and preparing reports and infographics on violent deaths and child fatalities.

(20%) Develop an evaluation plan and oversee the quality of TVDRS data abstraction, preparing and sharing data quality reports with abstraction staff and assisting staff to ensure data quality meets/exceeds the criteria defined by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

(10%) Support injury prevention unit data analyses and provide data support as needed, cross-training in fatal and non-fatal drug poisoning, motor vehicle crash injuries, EMS, and trauma data analyses.

(10%) Other duties as assigned, including participating in disaster response and/or recovery or Continuity of Operations (COOP) activation.

Requirements:

Knowledge of principles and methods of epidemiology, scientific methods, data abstraction, and statistical concepts and methods, and their application to surveillance and research.

Skills in analyzing large sets, using computer software package applications (SAS), and developing procedures to monitor and evaluate progress in achieving project objectives.

Ability to develop and effectively deliver training and technical assistance about research/data methods and procedures, to facilitate meeting agendas, and to interpret complex statistical data.


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