Public Health Advisor 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. Amended **

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 recently completed 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 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.

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. New York City (NYC) has the largest and most diverse HIV epidemic in the United States. To effectively reduce HIV transmission and HIVrelated morbidity and mortality accurate surveillance data is required to guide public health decisionmaking. Additionally surveillance case counts determine the allocation of millions of dollars of resources for HIV prevention as well as treatment and support services for HIVinfected persons.

The HIV Surveillance Unit in the HIV Epidemiology Program (HEP) is responsible for the surveillance of HIV and AIDS in New York City and for generating the accurate case counts and complete descriptive data on diagnoses clinical status laboratory test results and mortality that are needed to monitor epidemic trajectory and guide public health decisionmaking. Surveillance objectives include: 1) To describe HIV transmission occurring in NYC; 2) To count and describe new HIV diagnoses and new AIDS diagnoses including timing of initial diagnosis relative to infection and progression to AIDS; 3) To count and describe people living with HIV/AIDS in NYC including how and where they became infected health status care status and vital status. HEP is seeking a Public Health Advisor Level II (PHA II) to assist with internal data quality assurance projects to serve as a jurisdictional liaison to contact HIV surveillance programs in other jurisdictions for data cleaning and quality projects such as record search RIDR (Routine InterJurisdictional Deduplication) and any additional CDC designed projects. Additionally this person would serve as a point of contact for HIV surveillance programs from other jurisdictions. This position would report directly to the Team Lead for Data Quality Assurance.

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:

Conduct record searches to collect missing data in response to both internal and external requests (i.e. from other jurisdictions) and update Registry appropriately.
Assist with resolution of duplicate and/or merged cases.
Conduct other data quality assurance activities as requested.
Utilize several established tracking systems maintain documentation that tracks provider inquiries record searches and duplicate/merge activities.
Attend surveillance staff meetings and all other mandatory meetings.
Perform administrative duties to support the operation of the Surveillance Unit as assigned by supervisor or leadership. Administrative duties may include staffing phone desk.
If necessary serve in emergency roles related to COVID19 or other public health emergencies which may include case investigations epidemiological scientific research data collection and community engagement activities.

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