Senior Social Epidemiologist Bureau of Epidemiology Services

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 Health Department works every day to protect and promote the health of 8.5 million diverse New Yorkers. This includes making health equity and racial justice a priority in order to address enduring gaps in health between white New Yorkers and communities of color. To support this mission the Bureau of Epidemiology Services (BES) conducts systematic data collection and monitoring rigorous analysis and effective data communication. BES seeks to provide accurate and timely public health data to inform decisionmaking to optimize data use and to ensure accurate analysis of health data. The Bureau seeks a Senior Social Epidemiologist to manage a team of 5 PhD and MPH level research scientists and report to the Senior Director of Research and Evaluation of BES. The Senior Social Epidemiologist will oversee program evaluation and public health research activities as well as technical assistance activities to address needs qualitative and quantitative data analyses. The selected candidate will also foster inter and intraagency collaboration for public health surveillance and evaluation. The successful candidate will make sure that a team addresses agencys needs for expanding resources for quantitative and qualitative data analyses and methodologies via knowledge management consultations and trainings. The Senior Social Epidemiologist will lead and support agencys efforts to monitor and examine key outcomes and drivers for HealthyNYC. The Senior Social Epidemiologist will also work with the Senior Director of Research and Evaluation to provide guidance to leaderships to improve public health programs and advance workforce development goals according to Data Modernization Initiatives. Lastly the Senior Social Epidemiologist will lead and manage a highly functional and productive team by supporting their professional growth and creating a synergistic teamwork environment.

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
Lead and support agencys food security research and evaluation projects
Develop a mechanism where agency staff can receive technical assistance and training to address their needs for epidemiologic/statistical methods & analyses
Support development of qualitative research & evaluation resources
Support staff leading the DOHMHHealthix project to evaluate quality of electronic health records from Healthix
Support the newborns in shelter projects a multiagency project to understand birth outcomes among birthing parents with NYC shelter stay during pregnancy and describe health outcomes among their infants
Supervise 5 staff members who conduct social epidemiology research health equity research and public health evaluations.

**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

CITY RESEARCH SCIENTIST 21744

Qualifications :

1. For Assignment Level I (only physical biological and environmental sciences and public health) A masters degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological or environmental science or in public health.
To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above candidates must have:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and one year of fulltime experience in a responsible supervisory administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A masters degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and three years of responsible fulltime research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least a masters degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in 2 above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in 1 and 2 above.

NOTE:
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.

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