Public Health Specialist, Global Health Security, Preparedness, and Response at Georgetown University Center for Global Health Practice and Impact (CGHPI)

Job Overview

• The Public Health Specialist will be responsible for surveillance, outbreak response and implementing studies and investigations for patterns and causes of disease and injury in humans.
• These activities will inform the development and monitoring of prevention strategies, risk reduction strategies for negative health outcomes, early detection and response to diseases and public health events.

Specific Duties
Roles

• Detection and notification of health events using data from difference sources
• Collection and consolidation of pertinent data for alerts and early warning monitoring
• Critically evaluating ad hoc data requests about disease trends and outbreaks to determine what analyses are most appropriate and which data are available, reliable, and valid for analysis and dissemination
• Investigation and confirmation (epidemiological, clinical and/or laboratory) of cases or outbreak
• Routine analysis and creation of reports
• Feedback of information to those providing the data
• Feed-forward (i.e. the forwarding of data to more central levels)
• Systematic evaluation and improvement of surveillance system and program practices and procedures to meet defined indicators
• Working closely with program and Information Systems staff to define and document business requirements for surveillance system upgrades and to migrate users and data from legacy systems to new information systems
• Reporting data to the next administrative level
• Writing and updating policies, protocols and procedures relating to events and disease surveillance data collection, storage, reporting, sharing, and dissemination

Requirements and Qualifications

• Candidates must have experience in disease surveillance, emergency response and management, outbreak investigation and response in community health.
• Can analyze, summarize and interpret complex epidemiological data accurately and with methodical approach to work.
• Identifies and understands complex problems and concepts, applies logical thinking and quantitative methods to gathering and analyzing information, makes evidence-based decisions, and formulates and documents clearly articulated potential solutions and action plans and can articulate resource needs when responding to an urgent public health situation.

Additional requirements:

• A master’s or higher degree in public health, epidemiology, international Health or social sciences
• Proficient use of an analytical or statistics package