Clinical Informatics Specialist

Job Summary:

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Center for Infectious Diseases (CID) Informatics Branch is recruiting for a Clinical Informatics Specialist III to join an exciting team developing innovative solutions to strengthen CDPH’s public health data ecosystem. The incumbent will join the  team developing innovative informatics and public health data collection, management, and analysis systems, and identifying and implementing strategies for improving existing public health surveillance data systems and infrastructure.

Responsibilities will include:

• Contributing to the development, implementation, and maintenance of enhanced infectious disease public health surveillance projects.

• Improving interoperability of CDPH data systems and integrating these solutions with local health jurisdictions (LHJs) and other relevant public health partners to improve surveillance of reportable infectious diseases.

• Facilitating electronic collection, storage, and transfer of data relevant to infectious disease surveillance and epidemiology.

• Participating in complex data analysis, database design, and data quality assurance and quality improvement projects.

• Developing applications and tools to facilitate monitoring and governance for pipelines and data systems

• Developing protocols and guidelines and providing information and technical assistance to support local health jurisdiction, community-based organization, clinical, and other CDPH program partners in their application data modernization.  

• Innovating new solutions to address stakeholder needs

The incumbent will join the Data Operations unit. This unit is responsible for creating and maintaining processes and tools which support data quality monitoring, data system governance and access, sharing data between partners, and streamlined federal reporting. This position requires strong programming (SQL, R, and/or Python) and/or informatics knowledge to support data analysis, database design, and data quality assurance and quality improvement projects. The position will interact and collaborate with several multidisciplinary CDPH teams as well as other internal and external partners as they contribute to the CDPH mission of prevention and control of communicable diseases.

Department: 

UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) is dedicated to improving health and reducing the burden of disease in the world’s most vulnerable populations. It integrates UCSF expertise in all of the health, social, and biological sciences, and focuses that expertise on pressing issues in global health. IGHS works with partners in countries throughout the world to achieve these aims. IGHS seeks to improve health worldwide, especially in developing countries, through research that informs policy. 

 IGHS is committed to ensuring a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment as we work towards becoming an anti-racist organization. We strongly encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. Please see our statement on anti-racism here: https://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/about-us/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/statement-structural-racism. 

The CDC’s Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases (ELC) cooperative agreement provides funding to CDPH to improve detection, prevention, and response to the growing threats posed by infectious diseases through enhanced surveillance, prevention, intervention, communications, coordination, and partnerships. Staff hired through ELC contribute to infectious disease work across the Center for Infectious Disease (CID) in CDPH. This specific position will join staff in the Informatics Branch of the Division of Communicable Disease Control. The scope of the Informatics Branch’s work includes managing, analyzing, and reporting on data from many systems including laboratory testing, cases, vaccinations, genetic testing, hospitalizations, and more.