Senior Epidemiologist, Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use

Senior Epidemiologist, Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use

The Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use (BADU) works to close gaps and reduce overall morbidity and mortality related to alcohol and substance use among New Yorkers. BADU develops, implements, and evaluates interventions and prevention strategies through contracting of treatment, recovery and support services; policy analysis and development; epidemiology and surveillance; dissemination of treatment and management guidelines; harm reduction initiatives; public and provider outreach and education; and community involvement and interagency collaboration. The Bureau amplifies the voices of those most impacted and focuses on inequitable structural, social, service, and communication factors that drive disparities. Duties will include but not be limited to:

• Serve as data steward for real-time substance use morbidity and mortality surveillance
• Oversee real-time surveillance work products from various data sources including, but not limited to, syndromic surveillance, emergency medical services, and mortality
• Manage large datasets involving multiple years of data, including the creation of protocols, thorough documentation of methods, standardization of variables and preparation of datasets for analysis.
• Enhance and update surveillance data systems and lead analysis of complex datasets, including emergency medical service encounters
• Supervise and mentor the work of other analysts working on real-time alcohol and drug-related data sources, including syndromic surveillance and overdose mortality data.
• Summarize and synthesize analytic findings with clear direction and application to public health and health of people who use drugs in NYC.
• Lead preparation and dissemination of data reports, briefs, presentations, and scientific manuscripts to clearly communicate findings and recommendations to a variety of audiences including the public, agency and bureau leadership, other government agencies, and health care providers
• Represent bureau in collaborations with internal and external partners, and collaborate to align data collection and reporting with bureau monitoring and policy needs
• Perform all other responsibilities and projects as assigned by supervisors

Preferred skills include demonstrated experience in applying complex research methods to public health data, experience in applying epidemiology methods to real-time health data sources to identify emerging issues and inform public health responses, strong understanding of alcohol and substance use epidemiology and demonstrated ability to describe population-level trends in health outcomes, excellent written, oral, and verbal communication skills, experience cleaning and analyzing large health-related datasets using R or SAS, and commitment to advancing racial and social equity through public health.