Oral Health Epidemiologist, Wisconsin DHS
Category : Alumni
Position Summary
The incumbent will provide statewide leadership and expertise for surveillance methodologies, design, and evaluation of collection protocols, statistical analysis, interpretation of results, and presentation of findings for oral health issues. In response to requests for technical assistance, the incumbent will provide consultation, resources, and guidance to state and local oral health partners related to oral health issues, concerns and planning for local basic screening surveys. In this position, the incumbent will serve as the primary lead in compiling and developing narrative, statistical, visualizations, maps, fact sheets and major reports to include but not limited to the burden of oral disease, disparities, Medicaid utilization, community water fluoridation, sealant application, workforce and other reports for dissemination to policy makers, program decision makers, local agencies, health professionals, and others as appropriate.
The incumbent will be responsible for developing and implementing oral health surveillance using the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors Basic Screening Survey guidance. Specifically, leading the planning, implementation, analysis and reporting for Head Start/preschool children, third grade children, ninth grade children, adults and older adults. The incumbent will also be responsible for working with other program staff to assure that surveillance activities are aligned with programmatic activities to achieve deliverables and desired outcomes.
Qualifications
Minimally qualified candidates will have:
- Experience identifying populations and sub-populations at greatest risk for poor health outcomes.
- Experience using statistical methods and computer applications to input and analyze epidemiologic data (e.g. MS Excel, SAS, STATA, SPSS, ArcGIS, Infogram, Tableau, etc.).
- Experience applying epidemiologic methods relevant to oral health or chronic disease surveillance such as creating surveys; data matching to identify areas for quality improvement and outcomes; identifying trends; economic burden and impact; etc.
- Experience using data visualization techniques to develop materials for dissemination of results/findings for quality or performance improvement.
- Ability to work as a team including establishing and maintaining effective relationships.
- Ability to organize, multi-task and prioritize workload demands.
- Effective communication skills.
In addition, well-qualified candidates will also have:
- Experience directing epidemiological surveillance of oral health issues aimed at reducing the burden of oral health disease (e.g. dental caries, periodontal disease, access to care, etc.).
- Experience working in a public health setting.
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