GIS/Biostatistician Consultant

Assistance is needed on a local public health study for evaluation, analysis and dissemination of data collected. This project is a multi-institutional project involving neighboring institutions of higher education and community groups who have undertaken a multidisciplinary approach to understanding multiple risk factors associated with infant mortality in the city of Richmond, Virginia.
The GIS consultant will, apply the principles of research, mathematical and data analysis methods to evaluate data from a variety of subject areas and sources in an effort to provide information that contributes to the process of descriptive and analytic information routinely collected and reported regarding program evaluation, disease occurrence and emerging public health issues primarily in the Richmond area and vicinity. The GIS consultant will track, and display spatial information on infant death primarily within the Richmond metropolitan area. The incumbent will implement GIS mapping techniques in the mapping of infant death and other geographic –related variables to assist in understanding the distribution of disease within the community. Develop analytical plans that incorporate appropriate epidemiological and statistical methods and techniques that include the design of survey and data collection tools, execution of data collection, processing and simple to moderate analysis for interpretation of results to describe or solve problematic issues. Write, implement and tests custom statistical analysis programs to develop simple automated data extraction, tabulation and analysis for reports.

Required qualifications: Degree or related experience in natural sciences /public health with operational experience on geographic information systems, statistics and spatial modeling. Must have: