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Salary: $0.00-$55,000.00

Job Summary

This position serves as a journey-level epidemiologist responsible for carrying out a range of investigative and analytical epidemiologic activities related to the surveillance, detection, and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. The STD Informatics Epidemiologist works as a team or project member, under the direction of a senior epidemiologist, epidemiology program manager, or systems manager conducting epidemiologic functions comprising surveillance, data collection, data analysis using epidemiologic methods, and assistance with epidemiologic investigations.

Job Duties

• Managing and maintaining STD surveillance data and the STD surveillance data system for the state of Arizona and verifying data collected is within required quality standards. Participates in conducting outbreak and other epidemiological investigations by assisting with on-site review of facilities and procedures; and assisting in collecting data from local agencies or other health entities
• Identifying, analyzing, and interpreting trends in complex data sets, developing reports including public health impact and recommended actions, and using STD surveillance data for reporting, data analysis and data visualization needs to turn data into information and knowledge
• Providing technical assistance and training to all county and tribal users of PRISM (the STD surveillance system), providing STD reporting and investigation guidance to county and tribal health departments, and assisting with grants writing and other funding proposals
• Developing, designing, and documenting workflows, dashboards, alerts, reports, user guides, and other STD surveillance system related information/data
• Participating in after-hours activities including system testing, maintenance and quality assurance as needed

Job Requirements

• Comprehensive knowledge of contemporary principles and practices of epidemiology
• Research methods, procedures and techniques used in identifying and evaluating disease characteristics
• Contemporary medical methods and practices used in the control of a variety of diseases
• Principles and practices applicable to the surveillance and investigation of diseases
• Public health surveillance, computerized database management, data analysis, program evaluation, literature search, effective verbal and written communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of the performance management (PM) model and continuous quality improvement (CQI) methods in a public health setting
• Skilled in developing, validating, and maintain statistical analysis code (SAS and SQL programming languages), experience writing queries in SQL or a willingness to learn SQL within the first few months of hire, communicating complex information to non-technical audiences, collaborating across agency programs and meet shared goals, preform analysis and evaluation, promote the use of informatics practices to make effective business decisions
• The ability to communicate clearly in person, over the phone, and through writing, to work independently and as part of a team
• Support a diverse multi-cultural workforce that reflects the community, promotes equal opportunity at all levels of public employment, and creates an inclusive work environment that enables all individuals to perform to their fullest potential free from discrimination, plan organize, and prioritize projects

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have:

• Bachelors in public health or a science-related field and 3 years of experience in applied public health epidemiology
• Masters of public health in Epidemiology may substitute for 2 years of experience
• Ideal candidate will have experience using statistical software, working with the different levels of US health care system and public health system, and working with electronic public health surveillance databases