UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory

   Supervisory Health Scientist

Or

 Supervisory Medical Officer

The U.S. EPA’s National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) in Research Triangle Park, NC, is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Supervisory Health Scientist or Supervisory Medical Officer. This career opportunity serves as Chief of the Epidemiology and Biomarkers Branch (EBB) within the Human Studies Division (HSD), located on the medical campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  HSD maintains a Medical Station staffed and equipped to conduct physical examinations and medical procedures.  The primary mission of EBB is to characterize exposure-dose-response relationships to environmental pollutants among the general population and special susceptible populations (e.g. children, elderly).  Epidemiology is applied to a range of environmentally-related health effects, with an emphasis on using molecular and cellular events that occur in humans to study relationships between pollutant exposure and health effects.  Research is conducted to describe, explain, evaluate and predict environmental health outcomes related to such exposures in both observational and experimental settings. 

As Chief of the Epidemiology and Biomarkers Branch, the incumbent is responsible for leading and managing a broad-scale research program in environmental epidemiology and human biomarkers.  In addition, the Medical Officer position would share, with other staff physicians, in the responsibility of conducting subject physicals and serving as duty doctor for the Medical Station.  The Health Scientist position has a basic educational requirement.  The Medical Officer position has a medical licensure and a basic educational requirement.  Please visit www.epa.gov/nheerl for more information on the Laboratory in which this position is located.

HOW TO APPLY:  This position is advertised through the Office of Personnel Management’s USAJobs web site:  http://www.usajobs.gov: vacancy announcement RTP-DE-2009-0073 for the Supervisory Health Scientist; and RTP-DE-2009-0076 for the Supervisory Medical Officer.  Applicants must meet all qualification requirements as outlined in the vacancy announcement.  Applicants must be U.S. citizens.  Application deadline is May 12, 2009.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is an Equal Opportunity Employer