Title: Postdoc at EPA

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Section/SPIG: Environment

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The Environmental Public Health Division at EPA, located on the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, is seeking a postdoctoral student with good quantitative and data analysis skills for a full-time appointment for one year; it may be renewed for up to one additional year subject to the availability of funds.  

The research will utilize publicly available databases to investigate the human health effects of air and water pollutants and other environmental exposures. Research projects will use a variety of statistical tools including regression and time-series models to characterize exposure-response associations between environmental exposures and health effects. Other approaches may include geospatial analyses to characterize exposure effect relationships and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases and environmental exposures. The selected individual will by mentored by Epidemiology Branch investigators to identify appropriate research areas and to access databases.

Major activities could include: 1) developing hypotheses and defining study questions; 2) developing exposure and effect metrics and indicators of environmentally-associated health effects; 3) cleaning and preparing large data sets for analysis; 4) conducting data analyses, documenting statistical code and interpretation of results; 5) conducting and documenting quality assurance and review of data analysis and databases; 6) authoring leading manuscripts; 7) preparing reports, presentations, graphics and summaries of the data.

Link to announcement and application process:
http://orise.orau.gov/epa/description.aspx?JobId=2341