Overview

CDPH is currently hiring a Surveillance Epidemiologist (Research Scientist) within our Center for Infectious Diseases’ (CID) Division of HIV, STIs, and HCV (DHSH), Office of STIs and HCV (OSH)! In this role, you will conceive, plan, conduct, organize, and lead moderately complex STI, mpox, HCV, and HIV/STI/mpox/HCV coinfection and other emerging infections surveillance and statistical analyses using established guidelines, research methods, and techniques.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Maintains technical knowledge of statistical, research, and epidemiologic methods necessary to independently lead and conduct accurate, methodologically sound, and relevant analyses of STI surveillance data that are used to support OSH activities
  • Works independently and consults with other scientific and programmatic experts, and with internal and external stakeholder groups, to identify gaps in data quality and develops appropriate analyses to address these gaps
  • Recommends ways to integrate, improve, and modernize STI surveillance systems for enhanced data quality
  • Writes and reviews scientific reports, fact sheets, presentations, online postings, and publications for professional meetings and peer-reviewed journals to disseminate analysis findings
  • Provides expertise, oversight, and execution of STI data management activities, which include data processing and cleaning, downloading, reconciling, and submitting files between CDPH, local health jurisdictions, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Conducts the weekly and annual transmissions of the STI NETSS data file with the CDC and San Francisco and Los Angeles Project Areas in rotation with SDMU colleagues
  • Develops, implements, and oversees execution of quality assurance protocols for STI surveillance data
  • Assesses data quality, completeness, and timeliness of reporting STI surveillance data and collaborates with LHJs to improve data reliability and validity
  • Supports the development and implementation of innovative solutions to streamline and modernize STI surveillance practices
  • Uses software packages such as SAS, R, GIS, SQL, and Power BI to analyze and describe trends in California and support OSH activities and priorities
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