Overview
Remote opportunity, with travel requested on a case-by-case basis. We offer full benefits (medical, dental, vision) with pension and Saving Choice available.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Center for Infectious Diseases (CID) Informatics Branch is recruiting for a Clinical Informatics Specialist III to join an exciting team developing innovative solutions to strengthen CDPH's public health data ecosystem. The incumbents will join the team developing innovative informatics and public health data collection, management, and analysis systems, and identifying and implementing strategies for improving existing public health surveillance data systems and infrastructure. One incumbent will join the Systems, Integrations, and Pipelines Unit and the other will join the Data Operations and Tools Unit.
This position requires strong programming (R, SQL, and/or Python) and/or informatics knowledge to support data analysis, database design, and data quality assurance and quality improvement projects. The position will interact and collaborate with several multidisciplinary CDPH teams as well as other internal and external partners as they contribute to the CDPH prevention and control of communicable diseases.
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Responsibilities
Contributing to the development, implementation, and maintenance of enhanced infectious disease public health surveillance projects.
Improving interoperability of CDPH data systems and integrating these solutions with local health jurisdictions (LHJs) and other relevant public health partners to improve surveillance of COVID-19 and other reportable infectious diseases.
Facilitation of electronic collection, storage, and transfer of data related to testing, vital statistics, or hospitalizations for infectious disease conditions.
Synthesis and coordination of communicating data to public health partners across multiple data environments, including dynamic dashboards.
Participating in complex data analysis, database design, and data quality assurance and quality improvement projects.
Development of applications and tools to facilitate monitoring and access for pipelines and data systems.
Innovating on new solutions to address stakeholder needs.
Unit Missions
The primary mission of the Systems, Integrations, and Pipelines Unit is to create and maintain data pipelines to transform data from surveillance and non-surveillance into usable format which is standardized across disease conditions and provided to programs via a centralized cloud-based data warehouse. The primary mission of the Data Operations and Tools unit is to create and maintain applications and tools which support monitoring, facilitate access to data systems, increase efficiency and scalability for branch projects, and are adaptable to stakeholders needs.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in public health, health care information technology, computer science, or related area, and/or equivalent combination of experience/training plus either 3 years' experience in computer or data pipeline programming and database management, OR 3 years working in public health.
Strong skills in statistical analysis, database management, and systems programming, including SQL, R, and/or Python.
Broad knowledge of clinical, health systems, health analytics, or public health informatics.
Thorough knowledge of relevant clinical or public health informatics software and systems, and the concepts, principles, policies, methodologies, techniques, best practices, regulations, and standards involved in health systems, health analytics, public health surveillance or electronic medical data management.
Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to analyze problems, determine intervention level, and develop effective solutions; ability to collect and analyze system performance data and produce substantive reports.
Strong problem-resolution skills; ability to diagnose problems and implement solutions in a timely manner.
Ability to work with senior staff and managers in clinical IT, health care management, and business analytics, serving as a technical resource.
Strong ability to communicate complex information clearly both verbally and in writing.
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree in computer science, informatics, public health, biostatistics, epidemiology, or related field plus experience in data pipelines or public health.
Detail oriented with strong time management and prioritization abilities.
Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate, train, and support users at all levels.
Creative thinking to recommend action steps for public health surveillance, informatics, or program evaluation.
Experience with logical data design, data warehouse design, data integration, and data modeling.
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