Epidemiologist

**Position Description**:
**_**This is a Grant-Funded position with an anticipated end date of June 30, 2025**_**

Harris County Public Health has earned the 2023 Best Place for Working Parents Business Designation.
**About Harris County Public Health**:
Harris County Public Health (HCPH) includes a network of more than 700 public health professionals working together to improve health outcomes for the third most populous county in the United States. HCPH provides a multitude of services such as medical and dental services, community programming, and health education for the approximately 2.3 million people in unincorporated Harris County. Through its core values of innovation, engagement, and health equity, HCPH strives to bring meaningful solutions to public health issues while keeping Harris County healthy and vibrant.
**Position Overview**:
The Epidemiologist is expected to write reports and technical papers and be proficient with statistical analysis software (SPSS, STATA, SAS, R, or Epi Info).
**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Epidemiology Duties**
- Conducts epidemiology surveillance investigations for notifiable conditions and conditions of public health significance, including outbreaks, targeted active surveillance, and public health emergencies. Activities include interpretation of laboratory testing results and coordination for specimen collection.
- Provides consultation and make recommendations for control measures and prevention based on public health guidelines.
- Reports case investigations through the surveillance data management system.

**Research, Data Analysis, and Reports**
- Participates in research activities which may include the design, preparation, and review of reports from analyses of surveillance data, literature reviews, and other information. Also, Produces or contributes to special reports and statistical analysis of epidemiological investigations to ensure readiness for responding to Bioterrorism, outbreaks of infectious diseases, and other public health threats and emergencies. These may include activities such as monthly morbidity reports and outbreak investigation summary reports.

**Outreach**
- Establishes and maintains relationships with hospital infection control preventionists, school health care coordinators, and nurses to promote reporting of Texas notifiable conditions. Initiates active surveillance in daycares, schools, and long-term care facilities etc. when an outbreak occurs
- Provides educational presentations based on surveillance data and other information tailored to diverse audiences and community partners, such as schools.
- Performs other duties as assigned including special tasks involved with responding to emergency events

**Disease Surveillance**
- Provides 24/7 disease surveillance coverage on a rotating basis with other epidemiologists.

**Harris County is an Equal Opportunity Employer**

**Requirements**:
**Education**:

- Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Public Health disciplines such as Epidemiology, biomedical sciences, statistics, or related science degree.

**Experience**:

- At least_ o_ne (1) year of experience working in a public health related area, such as local health department disease investigation, college or university public health project, clinical or public health laboratory, disease surveillance or statistical project.
- Valid Driver’s License (Texas upon hire) along with a good driving record for regular local travel when needed to attend other local health departments or State, Regional Health department meetings and trainings.

**Knowledge, Skills & Abilities**:

- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
- Proficiency with statistical analysis software (SPSS, STATA, SAS, R, or Epi Info).
- Excellent organizational skills and communication skills (verbal & written)
- Ability to write reports and technical papers
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and foster teamwork in a diverse environment
- Ability to maintain confidentiality when dealing with sensitive information
- Ability to work well with public and staff members
- Use your personal mobile device for our Multifactor Authentication process
- Understands the organizational mission
- Understands ethics and public good; is concerned with public trust
- Demonstrates respect for the opinions and beliefs of others
- Contributes to an inclusive workplace where equity, diversity, inclusion, and individual differences are valued and leveraged to achieve the vision and mission
- Demonstrates a sense of responsibility for the success of the group
- Collaborates with others to improve quality and address needs
- Ability to adapt to change
- Treats others with courtesy, sensitivity, and respect
- Behaves in an honest, fair, and ethical manner
- Assesses and recognizes own strengths and weaknesses
- Uses sound judgment
- Self-motivated
- Organizes and maintains work environment to allow for maximum productivity
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