CDC Job Opportunity: OSH Deputy Director for Research Translation.

CDC Job Opportunity: OSH Deputy Director for Research Translation.
National Center for Chronic Disease and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
Office on Smoking and Health (OSH), Office of the Director
Deputy Director for Research Translation
Senior Biomedical Research and Biomedical Product Assessment Service (SBRBPAS)
Opening Date: August 22, 2022
Closing Date: October 3, 2022

The Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) Office of the Director is seeking a dynamic and experienced candidate to serve as Deputy Director for Research Translation (DDRT).  This is an Excepted Service position in the Senior Biomedical Research and Biomedical Product Assessment Service (SBRBPAS). This job is open to the public (U.S. Citizens only), including current federal employees.    
 
OSH is the lead federal agency for comprehensive tobacco prevention and control focusing on four major goals: 1) prevent initiation of tobacco use among youth and young adults; 2) promote quitting among adults and youth; 3) eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke; and 4) advance health equity by identifying and eliminating commercial tobacco product-related disparities and inequities. With this foundation, OSH saves lives and money by preventing and reducing commercial tobacco use—the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
 
OSH provides primary staffing and scientific leadership to the Office of the Surgeon General (SG) to develop and publish the SG Reports on Tobacco and Health. The DDRT will lead the development of these SG Reports, a critical mechanism for translating the scientific literature into population-level commercial tobacco control, and highly respected evidence summaries to inform and guide regulatory and policy priorities.
 
Major Duties:

• Provides scientific leadership in the field of biomedical research, including behavioral research.
• Provides senior scientific leadership to coordinate and lead expert scientists in the development, and peer and senior scientific review of high impact tobacco-related scientific reports.
• Cultivates collaborative partnerships that involve high priority projects with the potential for significant public health impact.
• Provides scientific leadership in the evaluation of high impact public health tobacco control strategies and the dissemination of data on these strategies in reports, scientific publications, and major technical reports and guidance documents.
• Provides strategic direction on policies, programmatic activities, partnerships, innovative data and analytic approaches, management, and operations for health equity and social determinants of health.
• Provides senior scientific leadership and guidance on global, national or state/local tobacco surveillance systems, improving the quality and implementation of survey protocols, preparing country fact sheets and reports, country survey results, and integrating tobacco questions into other national surveillance systems.