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The Public Health Physician provides medical leadership within the Public Health Response team and works in close collaboration with both the Senior Scientist and Senior Practice Leader of Respiratory Viral Surveillance. Reporting to the Medical Director, Public Health Response, the Public Health Physician is responsible for providing medical expertise and medical leadership for provincial respiratory surveillance influenza, RSV, and COVID-19) along with for emerging respiratory infection preparedness and response.
Key Responsibilities- Provides epidemiologic expertise and communicable disease consultation to Medical Health Officers, the Provincial Health Officer and the Minister of Health.
- Monitors, interprets and recommends actions based on surveillance data for selected communicable diseases from amongst nosocomial, vaccine-preventable, respiratory-borne, enteric, zoonotic, bloodborne and other diseases of public health concern as assigned within the department.
- Assists with high profile communications aspects for rapid dispersion of information to the public, physicians, public health worker, MHOs, and government.
- Prepares reports on communicable disease epidemiology or control for publication.
- Provides advice/liaison on epidemiological matters with local, provincial, national health care, education and other organizations.
- Provides medical consultation, background rationale (including literature review and synthesis) for program and policy recommendations and justification and based on feedback, develops communicable disease control policies for select diseases.
- Assists in the development of budget proposals in support of recommended program or policy changes.
- Participates in relevant public health research (including the spectrum ranging from emerging issues to evaluative studies) of select diseases or programs.
- Co-ordinates inter-jurisdictional outbreak investigations and management of select diseases. Liaises with provincial, national and international jurisdictions as required.
- Assists in the development of communicable disease educational materials for public health field personnel and the public.
- Attends meetings and conferences as required as an expert representative and/or member of the division and BCCDC.
- Provides on call service during the day and evenings as scheduled by rota.
- Doctor of Medicine (MD) from a recognized university
- Post graduate degree in Epidemiology or Public Health
- Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) in 1) Community Medicine or 2) Internal Medicine or Pediatrics with Infectious Disease training, or 3) Medical Microbiology
- Registration or eligible for registration with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia
- Excellent computer skills, including proficiency with word processing, statistical and analytical software.
- Proficiency in clinical medicine
- Excellent communication skills, including public speaking and public relations.
- Ability to supervise clinical and administrative staff.
- Ability to work well in interdisciplinary teams.
- Effective interpersonal skills, mature judgement and flexibility.
- A minimum of one years experience in public health with responsibility for communicable disease control.
- Experience as a Medical Health Officer, communicable Disease Epidemiologist, Infection Control Practitioner or Federal Field Epidemiologist are assets.
- 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 also considered an asset.
