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Under supervision at the health district, day-to-day activities of the fellows include, but are not limited to planning, developing, and conducting epidemiologic investigations, surveillance, outreach and interventions limited in scope and/or complexity to determine the causes of diseases and implementing methods of disease control. Fellow duties also include collecting, analyzing, and interpreting statistical data and preparing epidemiologic reports. The applied epidemiology experience is supplemented by competency based professional development trainings and comradery-building programming.
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ADDITIONAL JOB DETAILS:
Hired into the Rollins Epidemiology Fellows Program, fellows serve as early-career MPH-level epidemiologists for a two-year term within one of Georgia’s 18 local health districts or at the Georgia Department of Public Health. This position is not located at Emory, but rather at the Georgia Department of Public Health or within one of Georgia’s 18 district health departments.
Fellowship positions are located at the health district site and require in person attendance. Under supervision at the health district, day-to-day activities of the fellows include, but are not limited to: planning, developing, and conducting epidemiologic investigations, surveillance, outreach and interventions limited in scope and/or complexity to determine the causes of diseases and implementing methods of disease control. Fellow duties also include collecting, analyzing, and interpreting statistical data and preparing epidemiologic reports. The applied epidemiology experience is supplemented by competency based professional development trainings and comradery-building programming.
Primary Duties and Job Responsibilities:
Competency Achievement Plan:
To successfully complete and graduate from the Rollins Epidemiology Fellowship, fellows are minimally expected to complete an oral presentation, a surveillance evaluation/quality improvement project, and a significant data analysis project over the course of the two years. Fellows are expected to work on projects and activities related to seven Core Competencies:
Example projects:
1. The fellow will assess the impact of budgetary changes on quality of care among stroke patients at designated stroke centers. The fellow will produce stroke data summary and a legislative report to be shared with Georgia DPH leadership, state legislators, and the community at large through the Georgia Stroke Professional Alliance (GASPA). Findings will be shared with colleagues in the epidemiology division and the Division of Epidemiology and Chronic Disease, Health Behaviors, and Injury Epidemiology (CHIE) section.
2. The fellow will conduct an evaluation of the cancer registry surveillance system to further understand how to sustain achieving 90% completeness for 12-months year after year. The final deliverable for this project will be an evaluation report based on the findings to be shared with the program funder as part of the deliverables to CDC; present findings at the CHIE section as well as to the Georgia Cancer Control Consortium (GC3), a public-private organization that leads cancer control activities and supports intervention of Evidence-Based Intervention. The fellow is expected to present findings at the 2026 GATRA Annual meeting
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PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
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