EPIDEMIOLOGIST I – Global Migration Epidemiologist

Main Purpose Of Job
The mission of the Prevention and Health Promotion Administration (PHPA) is to protect, promote and improve the health and well-being of all Marylanders and their families through provision of public health leadership and community-based public health efforts, in partnership with local health departments, providers, community-based organizations, and public and private sector agencies, with special attention to at-risk and vulnerable populations. Within PHPA, the Center for Global Migration and Immigrant Health (CGMIH) works to ensure that newly-arrived humanitarian immigrants are connected to culturally-informed and language-accessible healthcare. The CGMIH also works to provide technical assistance to globally-mobile and diverse populations.

This position will serve as the Global Migration Epidemiologist for the CGMIH and will be responsible for identifying, incorporating and implementing travel and migration-related variables. This position will also be responsible for collecting, reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating travel and migration-related surveillance data; conducting related infectious disease epidemiologic investigations; and, developing statewide key indicators and performance metrics for statewide reports and quality improvement processes. In addition, this position will establish a quality assurance approach to ensure a high level of quality and accuracy in data collection, as well as develop related standard operating procedures and provide related training to key stakeholders (e.g. MDH/local health department staff) on investigation techniques for collecting travel-related data.

This position will serve as the back-up to the Senior Epidemiologist/Maryland Immigrant and Refugee Information System (MIRIS) Database Manager, and assist in MIRIS updates/maintenance. Additionally, this position will monitor, identify and assess disruptions to operations, as well as be responsible for other federally-mandated data-related activities. Furthermore, this position will work closely with the Center for Immunization to evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of connecting overseas vaccination data to the State’s immunization registry.

Finally, this position will provide related technical assistance for State and local partners, while also being responsible for all relevant reporting requirements to federal and State partners. All of these activities will complement and contribute to the surveillance and outbreak investigative functions of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Outbreak Response Bureau (IDEORB), whose purpose is to prevent and/or reduce the incidence of communicable diseases in Maryland.

Minimum Qualifications:
Education: A Master’s degree in the field of Public Health from an accredited college or university, with a minimum of three graduate courses in Epidemiology and one graduate course in Biostatistics.

Experience: None.

Note: Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a Commissioned Officer in Health Care Science classifications or Clinical Lab, Medical Scientists or Bio Medical Lab Officer specialty codes in the health research field of work, on a year-for-year basis, for the required education.

Desired or Preferred Qualifications
The desired candidate should have experience working with multiple data sources and creating, as well as analyzing, matched datasets. He/she should also have professional experience using public health surveillance methods to investigate communicable diseases, as well as experience working with culturally diverse populations.

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