EPIDEMIOLOGIST II

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DHMH, Prevention and Health Promotion Administration, Infectious Disease Bureau, Baltimore, MD

This position serves as an Epidemiologist II in the Center for HIV Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Evaluation (CHSEE) in the Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Outbreak Response (OIDEOR). The Center is responsible for collecting, processing, and investigating reports of HIV infection, AIDS diagnoses, and HIV perinatal exposures across the state of Maryland, and for generating information and statistics about the HIV epidemic. The Center seeks to collect the information necessary to describe the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Maryland, to evaluate and improve the quality of the information collection activities, to analyze and report this information to policymakers and the community for HIV planning, and to evaluate the effectiveness of programs targeting the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

The main purpose of this position is to provide project coordination and epidemiological analytic support to the Center for management and active use of perinatal, adolescent, and adult HIV surveillance data. This position will support the formulation, modification, and implementation of the HIV surveillance system's quality assurance program. This position will also coordinate HIV perinatal projects across centers, implementing activities between HIV surveillance, prevention, and care programs, and analyzing and reporting HIV and AIDS statistical data. While this will be implemented in collaboration with other centers and staff, this position is expected to plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate the use of HIV perinatal surveillance data and active HIV perinatal surveillance methods to support center staff in the collection, reporting, and usage of accurate and timely data to track mother-baby pairs to improve connection to HIV treatment and care and decrease HIV transmission to their unborn children.

Overall duties include data management, data analysis, report writing, presenting data, and making recommendations for improving existing systems. It requires a thorough and extensive knowledge of HIV epidemiological research and analysis methods. Information derived from these activities will enhance the development and implementation of HIV prevention and treatment programs in affected population subgroups.

Education: A Master’s degree in the field of Public Health from an accredited college or university with a minimum of three graduate courses in Epidemiology and one graduate course in Biostatistics.

Experience: Two years of experience in designing and conducting epidemiological studies and investigations for disease surveillance as an epidemiologist subsequent to receipt of the Master’s degree.

Note: Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in Health Care Science  classifications or Clinical Lab, Medical Scientists, or Bio Medical Lab Officer specialty codes in the health research field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience and education. 

Applicants who meet the minimum qualifications will be evaluated.  The evaluation may be a rating of your application based on your education, training and experience as they relate to the requirements of the position.  Therefore, it is essential that you provide complete and accurate information on your application.  Please report all related education, experience, dates and hours of work.  For education obtained outside the U.S., a copy of the equivalent American education as determined by a foreign credential evaluation service must accompany the application.  All information concerning your qualifications must be submitted by the closing date.  We will not consider information submitted after this date.  Applicants certified to list will receive eligibility for a period of one (1) year.
Eligibility may be extended beyond one (1) year period.  For Recorded Job Information Call:  410-767-6018.

Online applications are STRONGLY preferred, however the paper application may be submitted to DHMH, Recruitment and Selection Division, 201 W. Preston St., Room 114-B, Baltimore, MD 21201.  The paper application must be received by 5 pm, close of business, on the closing date for the recruitment, no postmarks will be accepted.

Incorrect application forms will not be accepted.

If you need to submit additional information, the preferred method is to upload.  If unable to upload, please fax requested information only to 410-333-5689.

Appropriate accommodations for individuals with disabilities are available upon request by calling: (410) 767-1251 or MD TTY Relay Service 1-800-735-2258.

The incumbent in this position is a member of a covered bargaining unit and will be required to pay a bi-weekly service fee to the exclusive representative of the bargaining unit.

STATE OF MARYLAND BENEFITS  

The resulting certified eligible list for this recruitment may be used for similar positions in this or other State agencies.

We thank our Veterans for their service to our country, and encourage them to apply.

As an equal opportunity employer Maryland is committed to recruiting, retaining and promoting employees who are reflective of the State’s diversity.