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Website City of Waco
Job Description:
Under general supervision, compiles, analyzes, interprets, investigates and reports public health data for health research projects on the surveillance, detection and prevention of disease and public health crises; manages public health surveillance databases and compiles data for technical reports for the Public Health District (PHD).
Job Responsibilities:
- Plans, organizes, develops and coordinates the investigation and evaluation of the causes of undesirable health events such as death and disability.
- Conducts communicable disease investigations and develops public health preparedness strategies.
- Assists in the design, implementation and analysis of health and human service surveys and other research projects.
- Prepares and presents reports, statistical analyses, scientific papers, specific studies and trends in epidemiology and public health in order to assess the health needs of the community.
- Compiles and analyzes data; assures validity, accuracy and completeness of data; interprets the significance and meaning of data; analyzes multivariate and cluster trends in data analysis results and reports findings and anomalies.
- Assists with public health program evaluation and planning; assists in the development of grant proposals.
- Provides public education to citizens on a variety of public health topics; establishes and maintains databases.
- Generates maps for study of population demographics and undesirable health events.
- Analyzes PHD disease trends and mortality and morbidity rates and develops comparison reports.
- Assists PHD staff and representatives from other agencies through technical skills and survey design.
Job Requirements:
- City policies and procedures.
- Federal and state laws, codes, rules and regulations related to public and environmental health.
- State and federal public health protocols and regulatory standards.
- Principles and practices of database systems, including computerized data compilation techniques and statistical and spatial models for computer analysis, including SAS, SPSS, STATA and GIS.
- Techniques for investigating and analyzing complex public health problems and conditions.
- Public Health research protocols and statistical evaluation principles and methods.
- Medical terminology, anatomy, physiology and concepts of disease.
- Surveillance program design and management for tracking pathobiology of infectious and chronic disease.
Qualification & Experience:
- Must possess a valid Texas Driver’s license.
- If BSN; professional registration as Registered Nurse by the Texas Board of Nursing is required
Job Details:
Company: City of Waco
Vacancy Type: Full Time
Job Functions: Other
Job Location: Waco, TX, US
Application Deadline: N/A
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