EPIDEMIOLOGIST III – Public Health Surveillance Informatics Specialist

Main Purpose Of Job
This position will serve as a Senior Epidemiologist/Public Health Surveillance Informatics Specialist in the Maryland Department of Health (MDH)’s Division of Infectious Disease Surveillance. This position will be responsible for designing, monitoring, evaluating, and improving Maryland Statewide infectious disease epidemiologic investigations, as well as surveillance processes and data. This position will also assist with the implementation and maintenance of electronic infectious disease laboratory and case surveillance reporting; be responsible for developing statewide key indicators, volume drivers and other infectious disease surveillance-related performance metrics for statewide feedback reports and quality improvement processes; and, collaborate with stakeholders to define data needs and identify gaps in current capabilities.

In addition, this position will import, clean, transform, and validate data for the purposes of identifying infectious disease clusters, trends or patterns, as well as use a proactive approach to drive a high level of quality and accuracy by identifying new opportunities for process improvement, along with opportunities for coaching, training and other efforts at ensuring best practices for maintaining data accuracy and integrity. Furthermore, this position will oversee other surveillance and prevention-related efforts within MDH’s Division of Infectious Disease Surveillance.

Additionally, this position will serve as the MDH National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS)’s Coordinator and lead the modification and maintenance of NEDSS, while also monitoring data systems, in order to identify and assess disruptions to operations. Finally, this position will ensure that standardized data is leveraged for data re-usage and workflow automation, in order to maximize the usage of data for information tracking, statistical analyses and reporting. In all processes and at all times, this position will manage and maintain the confidentiality and security of the data and databases.

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: Three years of experience as an Epidemiologist, after receipt of the Master’s degree.

Notes:

1. Candidates may substitute a Doctoral degree in the field of Public Health from an accredited college or university, with a minimum of six graduate courses in Epidemiology and three graduate courses in Biostatistics, for the required education and experience.

2. 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 experience and education.

Desired or Preferred Qualifications
The desired candidate should have supervisory experience, as well as experience managing projects and using electronic disease reporting and/or electronic laboratory reporting systems.

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