Senior Health Scientist

Job Family:

Operational Effectiveness

Travel Required:

None

Clearance Required:

Ability to Obtain NACI

What You Will Do:
 

Guidehouse is seeking a Health Scientist — Senior Associate to support a federal public health surveillance program focused on neurological conditions. This role will support scientific, epidemiologic, and surveillance activities that help a federal health client maintain, refine, routinize, expand, and disseminate population-based surveillance information. The Health Scientist will work as part of a multidisciplinary team supporting neuroepidemiology, surveillance science, data analytics, scientific documentation, dissemination, and research translation. The role will help translate complex evidence, data, methods, and analytic findings into high-quality scientific products that support public health decision-making, research, and practice.

Responsibilities may include:

• Support neuroepidemiology and surveillance science activities related to neurological condition surveillance, including Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and potential future neurological conditions.

• Conduct systematic, targeted, and rapid literature reviews to support surveillance methods, case definition development, evidence gap identification, and research prioritization.

• Support the development, refinement, documentation, and application of case definitions, surveillance methods, abstraction tools, decision rules, and review protocols.

• Review, synthesize, and interpret scientific literature, surveillance evidence, analytic findings, and data outputs to support surveillance estimates and public health products.

• Support validation studies and other epidemiologic analyses, including interpretation of findings, review of analytic outputs, quality checks, and documentation of methods and limitations.

• Collaborate with data analytics, visualization, communications, clinical neurology, and program management teams to produce scientific manuscripts, reports, presentations, tables, figures, maps, dashboards, and leadership-ready summaries.

• Support development and maintenance of SOPs, technical documentation, code annotations, abstraction guidance, publication trackers, evidence tables, quality control documentation, and knowledge management materials.

• Provide review of scientific and technical deliverables to ensure methodological rigor, consistency, clarity, and alignment with client expectations.

• Support dissemination of surveillance methods, findings, and products through manuscripts, reports, conference materials, briefings, stakeholder materials, and web-ready content.

• Coordinate with project leadership, federal client staff, subject matter experts, and multidisciplinary team members to track priorities, resolve issues, and maintain timely delivery of high-quality work products.

• Mentor or guide junior staff supporting literature review, abstraction, evidence synthesis, documentation, and surveillance-related deliverables.

• Deliver high-quality client service in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while maintaining scientific accuracy, transparency, and reproducibility.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in public health, epidemiology, health science, biology, neuroscience, psychology, health services research, statistics, or a related field.

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in public health, epidemiology, surveillance, scientific research, health sciences, evidence synthesis, or federal health consulting.

• Experience supporting public health surveillance, epidemiologic research, systematic reviews, evidence synthesis, scientific writing, or applied health research.

• Experience reviewing and interpreting scientific literature, methods documentation, analytic findings, and public health data products.

• Strong writing, editing, synthesis, and quality review skills, including the ability to translate technical content into clear scientific and programmatic deliverables.

• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, documents, and review cycles.

• Ability to collaborate with epidemiologists, analysts, clinicians, data scientists, communications specialists, and federal client stakeholders.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint or similar collaboration and documentation tools.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a NACI clearance.

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Master’s degree or doctoral degree in public health, epidemiology, health science, neuroscience, biostatistics, health services research, or a related field.

• Experience supporting CDC, HHS, or another federal public health agency.

• Experience with neurological conditions, neuroepidemiology, chronic disease surveillance, claims-based surveillance, population health, or public health research.

• Experience supporting Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, dementia, epilepsy, ALS, or other neurological condition-related research or surveillance.

• Experience developing or applying case definitions, abstraction tools, systematic review protocols, evidence tables, data dictionaries, SOPs, or quality control processes.

• Experience preparing manuscripts, reports, abstracts, conference presentations, scientific summaries, or clearance-ready public health products.

• Experience working with claims data, electronic health records, public health surveillance data, or other large healthcare datasets.

• Familiarity with literature review or reference management tools such as DistillerSR, EndNote, Covidence, Zotero, PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, or similar tools.

• Familiarity with analytic tools or environments such as SAS, R, Python, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Databricks, or similar tools.

• Experience supporting interdisciplinary teams that combine scientific research, data analytics, visualization, communications, stakeholder engagement, and program operations.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays

• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus

• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

• 401(k) Retirement Plan

• Basic Life & Supplemental Life

• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability

• Student Loan PayDown

• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities

• Skills Development & Certifications

• Employee Referral Program

• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach

• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program

• Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer–Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

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