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Epidemiologist I(Job Id 15512)



 Job ID: 15512
Agency: Department of Health
Location: Pierre, Sioux Falls, or Rapid City
Salary: $50,320.80 + annually, depending on experience
Pay Grade: GK
Closing Date: 01/21/2021
The South Dakota Department of Health’s programs and services help prevent illness and injury, promote healthy places to live, work and play; provide education to help people make good health decisions; prepare for, respond to, and prevent public health threats; and support efforts to enhance quality and accessibility of healthcare. Our services touch the lives of every person in the state of South Dakota.
We recognize that employees are our most valuable resource and we are committed to promoting a culture of excellence in DOH. We trust our employees to be innovative, challenge existing processes, and make the best decisions. We are interested in employing a diverse and skilled workforce that exhibits the values of leadership, accountability, communication, integrity, and teamwork. Public health is a diverse and growing field that offers many career options for people from a variety of educational backgrounds. Imagine yourself as part of a winning team that is making the lives of South Dakotans healthier and safer.
Please visit our website at http://doh.sd.gov/ for further information about the Department of Health. 
The Department of Health is looking to fill three positions in the following areas: Enteric Epidemiologist, Vaccine Preventable Disease Epidemiologist, & Vectorborne Epidemiologist.  
Enteric Epidemiologist
As the Enteric Disease Epidemiologist, the incumbent works with the South Dakota Department of Health (SD-DOH) to manage surveillance and response activities for enteric diseases, including shiga toxin-producing E. coli, Campylobacter, Salmonella, Listeria, and Cryptosporidiosis, and provides support to staff within the Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Informatics team and Office of Disease Prevention Services.
Scope of Work
  • Maintain knowledge of current surveillance and response practices for enteric diseases, including attending monthly CSTE enteric disease subcommittee meetings and required ELC grantee meetings focused on enteric disease
  • Initiate, investigate, advise, disposition, and report of enteric diseases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cases, including: review incoming ELR for enteric disease messages, initiate investigations to ODPS investigative staff, review completed investigations to assign case classification (e.g., confirmed, probable, not a case) for submission to CDC, participate on CDC conference calls and work groups as well as Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Enteric disease subcommittee calls, attend monthly CSTE enteric disease subcommittee meetings and required ELC grantee meetings focused on enteric disease.
  • Evaluate enteric disease investigation timeliness, completeness, and control measure implementation.
  • Support informatics projects designed to enhance enteric disease surveillance, such as leading Maven system implementation of CDC message mapping guides for Foodborne disease, data quality of electronic laboratory reporting assessment, and use of syndromic surveillance for disease identification.
  • Represent SD-DOH at federal, state, and professional meetings.
  • Provide weekly, monthly, or annual disease summaries, depending on the timeliness required to support clinician and community awareness.
  • Lead grant writing and budget preparation for Foodborne, Waterborne, Enteric, and Environmentally Transmitted Disease Surveillance outlined in the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) grant.
  • Conduct after-action reviews following outbreaks and generate outbreak reports, webpages, presentations, infographics, manuscripts, and other communication products for awareness and data sharing.
Minimum Qualifications
Mandatory:
  • Master's degree in public health or related field
Preferred:
  • Knowledge of infectious disease surveillance
  • Broad ability to communicate with professionals, agency officials, public health personnel, the media, and the public, both verbally and in writing.
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Vectorborne Epidemiologist
As the Vectorborne Disease Epidemiologist, the incumbent works with the South Dakota Department of Health (SD-DOH) to manage surveillance and response activities for vectorborne diseases, including West Nile Virus, Lyme disease, tularemia, and spotted fever rickettsiosis, conduct mosquito and tick surveillance, and provides support to staff within the Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Informatics team and Office of Disease Prevention Services.
Scope of Work
  • Maintain knowledge of current surveillance and response practices for vectorborne diseases.
  • Initiate, investigate, advise, disposition, and report cases of vectorborne diseases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including: review incoming ELR for tick and mosquito-borne disease messages, initiate investigations to ODPS investigative staff, review completed investigations to assign case classification (e.g., confirmed, probable, not a case) for submission to CDC.
  • Work with academic partners at South Dakota State University, University of South Dakota, and SD Public Health Laboratory to maintain mosquito and tick vector surveillance.
  • Participate in planning and program development of the annual Mosquito Control and West Nile Virus Conference.
  • Participate on CDC grantee and disease-specific conference calls and work groups as well as Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) vectorborne disease subcommittee calls.
  • Evaluate vectorborne disease investigation timeliness, completeness, and control measure implementation.
  • Support informatics projects designed to enhance vectorborne disease surveillance, such as maintaining Maven system support for arboviral mapping guides, reporting of mosquito and ticks to ArboNet, MosquitoNET, and TickNet, assessing data quality of electronic laboratory reportings, and using syndromic surveillance for disease identification.
  • Represent SD-DOH at federal, state, and professional meetings.
  • Provide weekly, monthly, or annual disease summaries, depending on the timeliness required to support clinician and community awareness, including producing weekly WNV disease summaries and creating WNV seasonal projections using the SDSU vector model
  • Lead grant writing and budget preparation for Vector-borne Disease Surveillance outlined in the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) grant.
  • Conduct after-action reviews following outbreaks and generate outbreak reports, webpages, presentations, infographics, manuscripts, and other communication products for awareness and data sharing.
Minimum Qualifications
Mandatory:
  • Master's degree in public health or related field
Preferred:
  • Knowledge of infectious disease surveillance
  • Broad ability to communicate with professionals, agency officials, public health personnel, the media, and the public, both verbally and in writing.
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Vaccine Preventable Disease Epidemiologist
As the Vaccine Preventable Disease Epidemiologist, the incumbent works with the South Dakota Department of Health (SD-DOH) to manage surveillance and response activities for vaccine-preventable diseases, including meningococcal disease, varicella, pertussis, measles, and mumps, and provides support to staff within the Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Informatics team and Office of Disease Prevention Services.
Scope of Work
  • Maintain knowledge of current surveillance and response practices for vaccine-preventable diseases.
  • Initiate, investigate, advise, disposition, and report cases of vaccine preventable diseases to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including: review incoming ELR for vaccine-preventable disease messages, initiate investigations to ODPS investigative staff, and review completed investigations to assign case classification (e.g., confirmed, probable, not a case) for submission to CDC
  • Participate on CDC conference calls and work groups as well as Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) VPD subcommittee calls.
  • Conduct after-action reviews and hot wash calls following disease clusters and outbreaks (e.g., meningococcal disease case).
  • Evaluate VPD disease investigation timeliness, completeness, and control measure implementation.
  • Support informatics projects designed to enhance VPD surveillance, such as leading Maven system implementation of CDC message mapping guides for VPDs, data quality of electronic laboratory reporting assessment, and use of syndromic surveillance for disease identification.
  • Represent SD-DOH at federal, state, and professional meetings.
  • Provide weekly, monthly, or annual disease summaries, depending on the timeliness required to support clinician and community awareness.
  • Lead grant writing and budget preparation for Enhanced VPD Surveillance outlined in the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) grant.
  • Conduct after-action reviews following outbreaks and generate outbreak reports, webpages, presentations, infographics, manuscripts, and other communication products for awareness and data sharing.
Minimum Qualifications
Mandatory:
  • Master's degree in public health or related field
Preferred:
  • Knowledge of infectious disease surveillance
  • Broad ability to communicate with professionals, agency officials, public health personnel, the media, and the public, both verbally and in writing.
VETERANS' PREFERENCE ELIGIBLE 
The State of South Dakota does not sponsor work visas for new or existing employees. All persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and complete an Employment Eligibility Verification, Form I-9.
The State of South Dakota offers employer paid health insurance plus ten paid holidays, generous vacation and sick leave accrual, dental, vision, and other insurance options, and retirement benefits. You can view our benefits information at https://bhr.sd.gov/job-seekers/work-for-state-government/. This position is a member of Class A retirement under SDRS.
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South Dakota Bureau of Human Resources
Telephone: 605.773.3148 Fax: 605.773.4344
"An Equal Opportunity Employer"