Job Description
The CDC Foundation is working with CDC and state and local authorities to provide surge staff to support surveillance, prevention and response activities within the Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) program. The abstractor will work closely with epidemiologists on identifying drug overdose deaths that meet the SUDORS case definition, contacting specific coroner and medical examiner offices to request reports, and abstracting appropriate information from the reports into the SUDORS database. Responsibilities include creating relationships with vital records and medical examiner/coroner offices, abstracting data from death certificates into SUDORS, refining fatal drug overdose data processing, conducting data quality assurance, and contributing to SUDORS-related manuscripts.
About CDC Foundation
The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives through collaboration.