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Title: Senior Substance Use Disorder Health SystemsEpidemiologist
$65,395.20 - $92,622.40 / Posted Thru: 8-30-24
Location: Remote/Virtual - Must Live and Work in Michigan
Occasional In-Person at Lansing, MI Office Required
Purpose: The Senior Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Health Systems Epidemiologist will lead the maintenance, development, and work with the MiCelerity surveillance system which contains identifiable fatal and nonfatal overdose data. This position will provide highly complex epidemiologic support to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. This position will bring a high level of analytic skill in identifying long-term trends and patterns for individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) that can be used to inform programs and policy. In addition, this position will work to disseminate information and analysis results in the form of data dashboards and reports, as well as work the Community Education and Outreach Section on the development of fact sheets. This person will be housed in the Opioids and Emerging Drugs Unit, Environmental Epidemiology and Analytics Section, Division of Epidemiology, Data Analytics, and Evaluation, MDHHS Environmental Health Bureau.
Duties and Responsibilities
Provide technical direction and epidemiologic support for local health department staff working with MiCelerity. This includes maintaining and updating related system documentation and trainings.
Independently conduct in-depth exploratory analyses regarding risk factors for SUD and other programmatically relevant analyses.
Lead the development of and manage the MiCelerity surveillance system.
Lead the onboarding of new data sources and related data linkage validation work.
Set up alert thresholds in related systems to identify abnormal overdose events and assist state team in investigating alerts. Provide technical assistance to local partners in setting up alerts.
Coordinate with other analysts working on overdose and SUD surveillance within MDHHS, including any surveillance system evaluation and quality assurance work as needed.
Review and edit work of analysts within the unit.
Coordinate with hospital staff to ensure data submission and completeness.
Use advanced technical and scientific knowledge to prepare written reports, analyses, and recommendations for use in designing interventions, making policy decisions, and program evaluation.
Complete data requests as needed.
Always represent the best interests of MDHHS and MPHI.
Conduct other duties as required.
Qualifications/Requirements:
Education: Possession of a master's degree with a major in epidemiology or public health with a minimum of 8 semester (12 term) graduate-level hours in epidemiology and biostatistics courses. Possession of a PhD preferred.
Experience: Three years of professional experience as an epidemiologist. Experience in statistical analysis is required. Experience with epidemiology of substance use preferred.
Important Skills and Characteristics:
Excellent organizational, data management, programming, and analytical skills.
Knowledge of data quality.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Self-motivated, able to complete work in a timely manner and handle multiple tasks at one time with minimal supervision.
Proficiency in SAS or R preferred. Experience with electronic health messaging (HL7/ADT messages) a plus.
Work Environment and Physical Requirements: Standard office environment.
Responsibility for the Work of Others: No assigned responsibility.
Impact on Projects, Services, and Operations: This position directly impacts the drug overdose surveillance activities in the MDHHS. This involves working with the State Epidemiology Outcomes Workgroup, the Michigan Overdose Data to Action Prevention Team, and the Bureau of Infectious Disease. The purpose is to develop a coordinated system that provides accurate, timely, and useful data on drug overdose to key stakeholders, policy makers, the MDHHS, researchers such as the University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center, local programs, and other interested parties. Drug overdose data will be provided in a way that helps partners reshape state and community level programming and interventions, and evaluate the impact of state, local and organizational policy changes on drug overdoses. This position's work will also assist local health departments with their efforts regarding drug overdose surveillance and prevention.
REQUIRED COMMUNICATION
Contact Person
Frequency
Purpose
Supervisor
Weekly
Supervision
MODA Lead Epidemiologist
Daily
Planning
MODA Drug Surveillance Epidemiologist
Daily
Planning
MODA Data Analysts
Daily
Planning
MODA Prevention Staff
Bi-Weekly
Coordination
MiVDRS Program Manager
Weekly
Coordination
State epidemiologist
As needed
Guidance and coordination
"For purposes of employment standards, this classification is "Exempt" from overtime provisions of the fair Labor Standards Act."
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