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This position is located within the Louisiana Department of Health / Office of Public Health / Bureau of Infectious Diseases – Infectious Epidemiology / Orleans Parish
Announcement Number: OPH/CG/202019
Cost Center: 3262107644
Position Number(s): 50634519
This vacancy is being announced as a Classified position and will be filled as a Job appointment.
(Job appointments are temporary appointments that may last up to 48 months)
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
To apply for this vacancy, click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process.
*Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.*
A resume upload will NOT populate your information into your application. Work experience left off your electronic application or only included in an attached resume is not eligible to receive credit
For further information about this vacancy contact: Ciera Green Ciera.Green@la.gov LDH/HUMAN RESOURCES BATON ROUGE, LA 70821 225-342-6477
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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
A baccalaureate degree which includes a total of twenty-four semester hours in any one or a combination of the following: public health, epidemiology, social sciences, biological sciences, behavioral sciences, or nursing plus one year of professional level experience in epidemiology.
SUBSTITUTIONS:
A master's degree in one of the fields listed above will substitute for all of the required experience.
NOTE:
Any college hours or degree must be from an accredited college or university.
Function of Work:
To monitor, analyze, and interpret epidemiological data in order to help assure the health and safety of Louisiana citizens.
Level of Work:
Experienced.
Supervision Received:
General supervision from a higher-level Public Health or other Department of Health and Hospitals staff member.
Supervision Exercised:
None.
Location of Work:
Department of Health and Hospitals.
Job Distinctions:
Differs from a Public Health Epidemiologist Technician 1 by independent performance of duties.
Differs from Public Health Epidemiologist by the absence of independence in conducting epidemiological activities and the absence of independence in using technical tools of epidemiology, such as study design and statistics.
The Infectious Disease Epidemiology (IDEpi) Section is responsible for reducing the occurrence of infectious diseases of public health importance. The Section conducts surveillance activities to detect cases and identify trends and to institute appropriate intervention and follow-up control measures.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct surveillance and epidemiological investigations to identify, monitor, and control viral respiratory diseases (VRD) in the community.
- Manage VRD virologic surveillance program to determine what viruses are circulating and confirm adequate sample testing at the state public health lab.
- Conduct VRD mortality surveillance for reportable deaths (influenza, COVID-19, and RSV).
- Lead VRD outbreak response.
- Conduct data analysis as required for public and internal reporting.
- Manage text-illness monitoring system as needed for outbreak response or novel influenza infections.
- Support the VRD component of CDC’s Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity grant.
- Update IDEpi surveillance annex of the Louisiana Pandemic Influenza Plan, at minimum, on a yearly basis.
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