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General Overview
The Stop Transmission of Polio (STOP) Activity Unit at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recruiting for Data Managers to participate on STOP teams. The World Health Organization (WHO) is placing Data Managers and Informaticians to work on Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) information systems at national and sub-national levels in Asia and Africa.
The CDC is assisting WHO and Ministries of Health in improving their methods of managing and analyzing surveillance data. Data Managers are being deployed to countries in the developing world to assist in utilizing Epi-Info (Windows version) to record and analyze data. Primary responsibilities are to provide technical assistance through capacity building focused on implementing data entry screens, improving data reporting, conducting data cleaning, data analysis, generating feedback reports, conducting ad hoc analysis utilizing Epi-Info and other software, providing technical support for Geographical Information Systems, and other activities.
Project Requirements
Volunteers are sought who are technically savvy in the use of computer-based disease surveillance systems. Experience is desired in:
- Computer programming
- Teaching software and analysis
- Data analysis and data management
- Previous international work
- Vaccine-preventable disease surveillance and analysis
- GIS
- Data managers/analysts fluent in French are in high demand.
Summary
This project would require experienced data managers or data analysts that either currently know Epi-Info Windows version or can learn Epi-Info Windows version quickly.
This assignment will include aspects of developing data entry screens, developing data quality controls, and developing output reports and ad hoc analyses using Epi-Info for Windows. It may also include enhancing, troubleshooting, or otherwise modifying pre-existing applications from regional WHO offices.
STOP Data Managers need to be self-starters, very flexible, and work well under difficult conditions with people of different cultures.
Interested applicants can learn more about the program and submit their application via www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/global/stop/application.htm
Content last reviewed on August 11, 2004
Content Source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
