A small spike in case numbers can mean nothing. Or it can mean the start of something that needs to be caught in days, not weeks. Telling the difference — and acting on it — is the work. We're hiring a Remote Epidemiologist to do exactly that, fully remote, at $83,500 a year.
What This Role Is Built Around
Your work sits at the intersection of data and consequence. You'll monitor disease surveillance systems, build models that explain what the numbers actually mean, and support outbreak response when something needs immediate attention. None of this happens in isolation — a lot of it involves translating findings for people who aren't statisticians, so decisions can actually get made in time.
Some weeks are steady: routine surveillance, ongoing research, standard reporting. Other weeks bring a sudden spike in a dataset that needs to be chased down fast. Both are part of the job.
Core Responsibilities
- Monitor disease surveillance data and identify early warning signals.
- Apply biostatistics methods to assess and quantify emerging health risks.
- Support outbreak investigations, including rapid data analysis when new cases rise.
- Design and lead public health research studies, from methodology through reporting.
- Translate complex epidemiological findings into clear, actionable guidance for non-specialists.
- Collaborate with health informatics, policy, and data science teams on shared initiatives.
- Publish findings that support evidence-based public health practice.
Qualifications
- Education: Master's degree in Epidemiology, Public Health, Biostatistics, or a related field.
- Experience: A minimum of 3 years working in epidemiology, public health surveillance, or biostatistics.
- Strong foundation in epidemiological study design and analysis.
- Working proficiency with statistical software, coding, and data visualization tools.
- Demonstrated ability to work with incomplete or messy data and still draw reliable conclusions.
- You can put findings into words that land with someone who's never seen a p-value.
What Strengthens an Application
- Experience with outbreak investigation in a real-world public health setting.
- Familiarity with health informatics platforms and emerging data tools.
- You've had research published, or your work has fed directly into a policy decision somewhere.
- Comfort working across time zones with distributed, cross-functional teams.
Compensation and Benefits
This role pays $83,500 annually. Along with that, you'll get:
- Full remote flexibility, with hours that can flex around personal and family needs.
- Health coverage and paid time off.
- Ongoing professional development support to keep your skills current in a fast-moving field.
- Direct exposure to work that shapes real public health outcomes, not just internal reports.
Who Tends to Succeed Here
This work suits someone who's genuinely comfortable with ambiguity — data doesn't always arrive clean, and outbreaks don't wait for convenient timing. The strongest candidates can sit with an incomplete dataset, keep working the problem, and still land on something useful. Roles like this appear on job platforms including Naukri Mitra from time to time, but what tends to matter more than where the listing was found is whether someone can hold both the technical rigor and the human stakes of the work at once.
You'll also want to be someone who works well independently but doesn't disappear into isolation. Much of this role depends on staying connected to policy teams, clinicians, and data scientists, even without a shared office.
How Progress Gets Measured
Hours logged aren't really the point here. What matters is whether your analysis helped catch a risk early, whether your findings shaped a smarter policy decision, or whether your work gave health workers something concrete to act on. That's the standard this role is held to.
Where the Field Is Headed
Epidemiology keeps shifting under pressure from climate change, urban growth, and global travel patterns, while new tools — AI-assisted modeling, wearable health data — keep changing how the work gets done. This role puts you close to that shift, working at the point where scientific findings meet practical, real-world decisions.
How to Apply
Send your resume along with a short note on a data analysis or public health project you're proud of — what the challenge was, and what your findings led to. This role is open to applicants from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, India, and other eligible regions worldwide.
