Epidemiologist

**Epidemiologist**:
At Halton Region, we treat everyone with respect, honesty, fairness and trust. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to establishing a qualified workforce that is reflective of the diverse population we serve. Halton Region is committed to providing accommodation to individuals with disabilities throughout the recruitment process.

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**As an employer of choice, Halton Region recognizes the many benefits of hybrid work arrangements including flexibility and better work-life balance for our employees. This position is eligible for our Hybrid Work Program.**

**Posting ID**: 3535
**Department**: Health
**Division**: Public Health Resources
**Pay Range**: $96,256 - $128,372

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Hours of Work**: 35 hours per week
**Work Location**: Halton Regional Centre - 1151 Bronte Road, Oakville
**Employee Group**: MMSG
**Posting Date**:October 3, 2024
**Application Deadline**: October 18, 2024

**Job Summary**:
This position provides epidemiologic expertise through the identification of significant health issues and patterns in the community involving the collection of data, development and maintenance of surveillance systems, and analysis of data from health databases.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Investigate and provide surveillance on communicable and non-communicable diseases, including outbreak detection, investigation, and analysis.
- Carry out research, analysis, and reporting on the distribution and determinants of health-related states and events in the community and make recommendations to the Health Department and the Region.
- Report on health issues and patterns through community health status reports, surveillance reports, interactive dashboards, and GIS maps.
- Support public health programs in analyzing and interpreting health assessment and surveillance data, program-level data, and evaluation results in order to facilitate evidence-informed decision making.
- Provide expert epidemiological advice and on-going program planning support, primarily to Directors and Managers, and assist in identifying priorities in their program areas.
- Develop work plans, track projects/consults, provide on-going updates to the Manager & Senior Epidemiologist, mitigate risks, manage expectations, and ensure client satisfaction.
- Lead program reviews, surveys, and the development of performance indicators.
- Collaborate with community partners, researchers, and provincial committees on relevant public health issues.
- Mentor analysts and/or students, on a project by project basis.
- Perform other duties as assigned.

**Skills & Qualifications**:

- Master’s degree with a focus in Epidemiology, combined with at least three (3) years’ experience working in a community-based epidemiology role, preferably within a local public health unit.
- Advanced knowledge of the principles and practices of communicable and non-communicable disease epidemiology, biostatistics, performance measurement/indicator development, program planning, and research methodology.
- Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to manage numerous projects simultaneously and work independently with mínimal supervision.
- Expert knowledge in MS Office (especially Excel, PowerPoint, Visio).
- Expert knowledge or advanced training in statistical software packages (e.g. Stata, R, SAS).
- Knowledge and experience extracting and analyzing data from provincial and local public health reporting systems and databases such as IntelliHealth, iPHIS, and Panorama.
- Strong supervisory skills to oversee analysts in carrying out epidemiology projects.
- Exceptional critical thinking and analysis skills.
- Strong skills in political acuity, diplomacy, and tact to interact and consult with internal and external stakeholders.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills for effective knowledge translation.
- Ability to manage numerous projects simultaneously and meet multiple deadlines.
- Experience with ArcGIS, PowerBI, Python, and/or SQL is an asset

**Working/ Employment Conditions**:
**Working Conditions**
- Flexibility to work outside of core business hours including evenings, weekends and holidays is required to assist with surveillance, outbreaks, and/or manage emergency situations in our community when they occur.

**Employment Conditions**
- Travel will be required, and incumbent must provide their own transportation.
- In accordance with requirements in Ontario Regulation 191/11 - Integrated Accessibility Standards and the Ontario Human Rights Code, Halton Region will accommodate the needs of individuals with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment