Data Scientist - (Trenton, NJ)

Position title: Data Scientist Job ID: 18-00407 Location: Trenton, NJ 08608 Duration: six months Job overview The Department of Health is interested in hiring a qualified Data Scientist for its Prescription Overdose: Data-Driven Prevention Initiative (DDPI). The successful applicant ideally will have extensive background working with large public health databases such as hospitalization data, vital records (death records) and prescription monitoring database. The Data Scientist will lead the preparation and consolidation of public health data to identify indicators for the dashboard and perform predictive modeling and analytics. The successful applicant will collaborate together with the Department's Healthcare Quality and Informatics team assigned on this project, the Data Architect and Office of Info Technology Services (HIT) staff.