The National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) was set up to strengthen Singapore’s capabilities in infectious disease management and prevention, and is a national leader and a key player in Infectious Diseases.

We are looking for:
The Senior Epidemiologist in the National Public Health and Epidemiology Unit (NPHEU) under National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) possesses broad expertise in the field of infectious disease epidemiology and is developing in-depth expertise in one or more special area(s) of infectious disease epidemiology.

Job Summary:

• Perform secretariat functions to support policy decisions such as taking scientific minutes, administration and coordination of national committee meetings.
• Develop and support national epidemiology / public health programmes, provide data and propose practices or policies that will promote and protect public health.
• Design, maintain and use databases and disease registries for evaluation of public health problems and epidemiologic research e.g. development of algorithms for extraction and collation of electronic data from disease registries, clinical databases, and electronic health records.
• Design, conduct and analyse epidemiological studies that would provide evidence to support enhancements to the national public health programmes.
• Conduct systematic reviews, long-term horizon scanning and risk assessments of potential public health threats to Singapore, to guide the development of professional guidelines as well as strategies and policies.
• Serve as a consultant and expert on epidemiologic methodology and data relating to infectious diseases of public health importance within and external to Singapore.
• Conduct training and research to continuously advance the field of epidemiology