Description
Investigate and describe the determinants, distribution, and outcomes of disease in clinical settings. Lead evidence-based prevention and control strategies, evaluate treatments and diagnostics, and guide quality and patient safety initiatives.
- • Oversee hospital and clinic epidemiology programs, including outcomes surveillance, HAI tracking, and quality improvement analytics.
- • Investigate healthcare-associated and community-onset conditions to identify risk factors, transmission pathways, and patient outcomes.
- • Design and direct clinical and outcomes studies on prevention, diagnostics, therapeutics, and care pathways.
- • Develop, implement, and evaluate infection prevention and patient safety standards in collaboration with clinicians and administrators.
- • Provide expertise in protocol design, patient-reported outcomes, sampling, and statistical analysis for clinical studies.
- • Advance methods for risk adjustment, causal inference, prognostic modeling, and EHR-based surveillance; analyze and present results.
- • Advise clinicians, researchers, quality leaders, and health officials on surveillance methods and interpretation of epidemiologic evidence.
- • Supervise epidemiology analysts, infection preventionists, and research coordinators.
- • Identify and assess issues such as HAIs, antimicrobial resistance, outbreaks, and their implications for policy and practice.
- • Teach epidemiologic methods, infection prevention, and evidence appraisal to clinicians, trainees, and staff.
- • Collaborate with clinical laboratories to interpret microbiology results, antibiograms, and diagnostic performance data.
- • Monitor and report HAIs, reportable conditions, and resistance metrics to health agencies and accrediting bodies.
- • Communicate findings and quality metrics to medical staff, executives, and public health partners.
- • Educate healthcare workers and patients on infection prevention, vaccination, and antimicrobial stewardship.
- • Publish clinical epidemiology and outcomes research in peer-reviewed journals.
- • Prepare grant proposals, IRB submissions, and study documentation to fund and govern clinical epidemiologic research.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
