Public Health Advisor II Bureau of Hepatitis HIV and STI

Open to candidates who are permanent or those who will be successfully applying for the OpenCompetitive PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISER Exam No. 5116 or the PROMOTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISER Exam No. 5541 within the filing period From: October 9 2024 To: October 29 2024.

Established in 1805 the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (the NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the country. Our mission is to protect and improve the health of all New Yorkers in service of a vision of a city in which all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential regardless of who they are how old they are where they are from or where they live.

As a worldrenowned public health agency with a history of building transformative public health programming and infrastructure innovating in science and scholarship to advance public health knowledge and responding to urgent public health crises from New York Citys yellow fever outbreak in 1822 to the COVID19 pandemic we are a hub for public health innovation expertise and programs and services. We serve as the population health strategist and policy and planning authority for the City of New York while also having a vast impact on national and international public policy including programs and services focused on food and nutrition antitobacco support chronic disease prevention HIV/AIDS treatment family and child health environmental health mental health and racial and social justice work among others.

Our Agencys five strategic priorities building off a recentlycompleted strategic planning process emerging from the COVID19 emergency are:
1) To reenvision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies with a focus on building a responseready organization with faster decisionmaking transparent public communications and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems 2) Address and prevent chronic and dietrelated disease including addressing rising rates of childhood obesity and the impact of diabetes and transforming our food systems to improve nutrition and enhance access to healthy foods
3) Address the second pandemic of mental illness including: reducing overdose deaths strengthening our youth mental health systems and supporting people with serious mental illness
4) Reduce black maternal mortality and make New York a model city for womens health
5) Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change

Our 7000plus team members bring extraordinary diversity to the work of public health. True to our value of equity as a foundational element of all of our work and a critical foundation to achieving population health impact in New York City the NYC Health Department has been a leader in recognizing and dismantling racisms impacts on the health of New Yorkers and beyond. In 2021 the NYC Board of Health declared racism as a public health crisis. With commitment to advance antiracist public health practices that dismantle systems that perpetuate inequitable power opportunity and access the NYC Health Department continues to work in and with communities and community organizations to increase their access to health services and decrease avoidable health outcomes.

PROGRAM AND JOB DESCRIPTION:

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH)s Bureau of Hepatitis HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections (BHHS) oversees the Citys response to viral hepatitis HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Its mission is to improve the lives of New Yorkers by ending transmission illness stigma and inequities related to viral hepatitis HIV and STIs. BHHSs work includes testing initiatives; prevention care and treatment programming; epidemiology and surveillance; training and technical assistance; community engagement; social marketing; policy advocacy; and racial equity and social justice initiatives. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH)s Bureau of Hepatitis HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections (BHHS) oversees the Citys response to viral hepatitis HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Across a range of programs and through extensive collaboration with other parts of NYC DOHMH and external stakeholders BHHS leads testing initiatives; prevention care and treatment programming; epidemiology and surveillance; research and evaluation; training and technical assistance; community engagement; social marketing; policy advocacy; and racial equity and social justice initiative. The HIV Epidemiology Program (HEP) in the HIV Program in BHHS is responsible for monitoring trends in the HIV epidemic in NYC and developing programming to improve outcomes among people living with and at risk for HIV based on the latest information about the distribution and demographics of HIV in NYC.NYC has a large and diverse HIV epidemic and programming and analyses of data from HEP inform HIVrelated public health policy at the local state and national levels.

The Expanded HIV Surveillance Project (Project EXPAND) within the Core Surveillance Special Projects Unit of HEP aims to collect supplemental data among priority populations newly diagnosed with HIV with the goal to describe these populations by indicators of social determinants of health and to identify missed opportunities for HIV prevention. Project EXPAND collects additional data among persons newly diagnosed with HIV within priority populations. A Data Collector will be hired to locate recruit and interview participants.

We strongly encourage people to apply and contribute your diversity in thought racial identity national origin gender age religion disability status veteran status and/or LGBTQI status to enhance the work of the DOHMH and promote the health of all New Yorkers.

We welcome applicants who share the vision for a city where all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential regardless of who they are where they are from or where they live. DOHMH extends this vision of wellness by providing every member of our team and prospective job applicants dynamic benefits: Benefits NYC Health and a robust Worksite Wellness program with a wide range of offerings.

As a current or prospective employee of the City of New York you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. Please review the notice to see if you may be eligible for programs and how to apply at nyc.gov/studentloans

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

Use database and online resources to obtain contact information for sampled participants.

Recruit sampled persons through contact attempts telephone calls mail and home visits.

Conduct standardized confidential interviews with sampled persons who agree to participate in the project via telephone or inperson.

Provide referrals and linkage to care when appropriate.

Record all activities in project databases.

Other duties as assigned.

**IMPORTANT NOTES TO ALL CANDIDATES:

Please note: If you are called for an interview you will be required to bring to your interview copies of original documentation such as:
A document that establishes identity for employment eligibility such as: A Valid U.S. Passport Permanent Resident Card/Green Card or Drivers license.

Proof of Education according to the education requirements of the civil service title.

Current Resume

Proof of Address/NYC Residency dated within the last 60 days such as: Recent Utility Bill (i.e. Telephone Cable Mobile Phone)

Additional documentation may be required to evaluate your qualification as outlined in this postings Minimum Qualification Requirements section. Examples of additional documentation may be but not limited to: college transcript experience verification or professional trade licenses.

If after your interview you are the selected candidate you will be contacted to schedule an onboarding appointment. By the time of this appointment you will be asked to produce the originals of the above documents along with your original Social Security card.

**LOAN FORGIVENESS

As a prospective employee of the City of New York you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information please visit the U.S. Department of Educations website at StudentAid.gov/PSLF.

FINAL APPOINTMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT & BUDGET APPROVAL

This position MAY be eligible for remote work up to two days per week pursuant to the Remote Work Pilot Program.

Qualifications :

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college including or supplemented by twelve semester credits in health education or in health social or biological sciences; or
2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and six months of fulltime satisfactory experience in a health promotion or disease intervention/prevention program performing one or more of the following: interviewing conducting field investigations assessing health risks making referrals or collecting and analyzing epidemiological data; or
3. A fouryear high school diploma or its educational equivalent and four years of fulltime satisfactory experience as described in 2 above; or
4. Education and/or experience equivalent to 1 2 or 3 above. Undergraduate college credit can be substituted for experience on the basis of 30 semester credits from an accredited college for one year of fulltime experience. However all candidates must have a fouryear high school diploma or its educational equivalent and either twelve semester credits as described in 1 above or six months of experience as described in 2 above.
Additional Requirements
A. To be assigned to Assignment Level II candidates must have in addition to meeting the minimum qualification requirements listed above at least one year of experience as a Public Health Adviser Assignment Level I or at least one additional year of experience as described in Qualification Requirement 2 above.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime