839 - Phf - Population Health Assessment and Surveillance - Epidemiologist

Epidemiologist (1 full-time position)
The Middlesex-London Health Unit has an exciting opportunity for a permanent full-time Epidemiologist to work on the Population Health Assessment and Surveillance (PHAS) team in the Public Health Foundations division at the Citi Plaza location, London, Ontario.
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:
Reporting to the Manager, Population Health Assessment and Surveillance, the Epidemiologist role provides leadership and expertise in the areas of population health assessment, surveillance, and reporting to facilitate evidence-informed practice and to support organizational planning and decision-making.
**The incumbent will complete duties including**:

- Ensuring adherence to Ontario Public Health Standards by conducting population health assessments; collecting, analyzing, monitoring, interpreting and disseminating demographic and population health status data to support planning, assessment, and decision-making; tracking current information about morbidity, mortality, demography, health outcomes and risk factors of residents in Middlesex County and the City of London.
- Communicating with and guiding health unit frontline staff, team managers, senior leaders, and external partners about using population health assessment and research evidence to make decisions, as well as providing epidemiological, methodological, statistical, data, and analytical expertise.
- Analyzing and interpreting statistical data to monitor and identify results of health studies, populations at risk, and community environmental factors causing disease; preparing and disseminating health status reports.
- Leading or supporting health unit surveillance activities; providing epidemiological expertise and analytical support to outbreak and cluster investigations or other urgent or emerging situations.
- Proactively providing consultation and advice to ensure integration of population health assessment and research evidence supports for programmatic and strategic decision making.
- Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of intervention or control strategies; and determining health status outcomes in order to ensure that established program standards are met.
- Interpreting and analyzing statistical data for public health managers and advising them of implications of the data for public health policy, and as it relates to the implementation of the Ontario Public Health Standards.
- Reviewing proposed research and evaluation projects with regards to methodology and analyses, and conducting research about priority populations and emerging health status trends when indicated.
- Responding to urgent and emerging requests as required.
- Conducting epidemiological investigations of non-communicable disease and communicable disease upon request of the Medical Officer of Health.
- Other duties as required.

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Minimum requirement of a Master’s degree in Epidemiology;
- Knowledge of and demonstrated skills in the principles and practices of epidemiology and health surveillance applicable to public health;
- Ability to analyze, interpret, and summarize complex data and facilitate knowledge transfer for implementation of results, including preparation of written reports and delivery of presentations;
- Experience designing, executing, and managing analyses, including data quality assurance processes;
- Advanced skills in the use of statistical analysis software packages, e.g., R, Stata;
- Experience using data analysis and visualization software packages, e.g., Power BI, ArcGIS;
- Awareness of and experience analyzing data from key public health data sources, e.g., BORN, CCHS, Census, DAD, iPHIS, etc.
- Ability to communicate, build professional relationships, and solve problems, as well as organizational skills to effectively engage and collaborate with frontline practitioners, team managers, senior leaders, and external partners;
- Ability to work autonomously as required and within the scope of the position, providing recommendations and evidence to team managers and senior leaders to support strategic and operational decision-making and organizational performance monitoring;
- Project management skills and ability to provide direction and project supervision to staff;
- Accuracy, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize tasks and activities with a high level of tolerance for complexity and ambiguity;
- Knowledge of the principles of health equity, and why it is a foundational standard for public health, including demonstrated ability to work with diverse individuals and/or communities to advance public health priorities;
- Skills and knowledge to work with an increasingly diverse population, has knowledge of health inequities;
- Strong skills and experience in the following areas are preferred:

- Applied communicable and chronic disease epidemiology;
- Methods to support evidence-informed decision-making;
- Population health assessment with a focus on social determinants of health and health