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Epidemiologist, Harm Reduction and Substance Use
1 month ago
Epidemiologist, Harm Reduction and Substance Use Services
BC Centre for Disease Control
Vancouver, BC
Are you ready to make a difference? The BC Centre for Disease Control, a dynamic Provincial Health Services Authority program, seeks passionate individuals to join us in providing provincial and national leadership in disease surveillance, detection, treatment, prevention, and consultation.
At our core, we aim to cultivate vibrant communities where everyone can achieve optimal health and well-being—right where they live, work, learn, and play.
What you'll do
Develop and maintain surveillance initiatives, including performing functions such as getting an accurate reporting case definition, defining additional information required beyond that for routine reporting, and making sure the information gets to critical stakeholders.
Ensure timely and effective communication of reports by continuous improvement of surveillance systems, holding a constant focus on turn-around times from various sources, and alerting all stakeholders and those who need the information to respond appropriately to threats. Prepare background material and media releases and respond as delegated to media inquiries and interview requests.
Critically analyze communicable disease and environmental hazard data utilizing comprehensive multi-layered understanding of epidemiology, public health and direct and indirect health care and societal impacts by identifying and responding to deviations from expected reporting patterns and clusters of disease/hazards, preparing, or collaborating in the preparation of reports, identifying and providing supporting rationale for appropriate interventions
Provide consultation services to regional health authorities, other provincial partners, national partners, special interest groups, health care professionals, and the public including responding to inquiries, identifying and making recommendations for addressing risk factors, developing education materials and making presentations. Liaise with public health, acute care, and other partners in these activities.
Evaluate existing programs and research relevant to the prevention and control of communicable diseases and environmental hazards by conducting literature reviews, designing and implementing studies, collecting and analyzing data, and writing reports. Design appropriate studies for investigating outbreaks, unusual clusters, or environmental hazards; prepare questionnaires; and analyze outbreak data and recommend appropriate interventions. Contribute to applied public health research and ensure new understanding and knowledge is shared by publishing findings in recognized/peer-reviewed scientific journals or presentations at professional conferences.
Assist with budget preparation, briefing note development, and justification of program expenditures; represent Harm Reduction and Substance Use Services and BCCDC on various internal and external working groups, including national and provincial committees; partner with other agencies to ensure multi-disciplinary input and collaboration in development of public health initiatives; and provide input to the development of policies and provincial guidelines. Participate in strategic decision-making, program and policy development related to program area.
Contribute eighty percent of activities toward program specific goals and twenty percent on centre-wide initiatives. Collaborates and provides coverage across program areas. Participate in quality improvement activities (including imPROVE) and ensure compliance with accreditation standards.
Provide mentorship and work direction to surveillance analysts, field epidemiologists and supervise students including community medicine residents and others; oversee specific projects and provide input into performance evaluations.
What you bring
**Qualifications**:
A level of education, training, and experience equivalent to a Masters in Epidemiology or Public Health (MSc or MPH or MHSc) and a minimum of 2 years experience in the field of public health.
Experience as an epidemiologist in the relevant areas is required: harm reduction, substance use, the unregulated drug poisoning emergency or mental health.
Experience as a surveillance epidemiologist or federal field epidemiologist is considered an asset.
Skills & Knowledge
Ability and experience in designing, implementing, and conducting studies, their interpretation, written reporting and publication.
Demonstrated ability to secure grant funding in support of research initiatives.
Demonstrated statistical analysis skills, including disease mapping and analysis and recognition of disease clustering.
Excellent computer skills with proficiency in maintaining large databases of statistical and analytical software.
Excellent communication and leadership skills.
Ability to work well in interdisciplinary teams.
Effective interpersonal skills, mature judgment and flexibility.
Ability to use a variety of statistica
