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Position Highlights:
Position Title: Public Health Analyst – Indiana
FLSA Status: Exempt
Reports to: Program Officer
Work Location: Hybrid
Date: October 2024
Overview:
The Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) is an initiative designed to enhance public health-public safety collaboration and strengthen efforts to reduce drug overdose deaths. The ORS is funded by CDC and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to help communities reduce fatal and non-fatal drug overdose rates by improved information sharing across public health and public safety agencies, and by supporting evidence-based intervention.
The CDC Foundation seeks candidates for a full-time Public Health Analyst to support the ORS. This position will support the efforts of the Indiana Department of Health, Indiana HIDTA and other key partners in the development and implementation of drug overdose information sharing systems and evidence-based prevention programs.
The Public Health Analyst must be based within a 50-mile radius of Indianapolis or Crown Point, Indiana. The PHA will work a hybrid schedule with regular visits to partner offices. Periodic travel to meetings within the state, and travel out of state to regional meetings and the ORS Annual Conference is required. Relocation expenses are not provided.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitate data sharing and joint initiatives between public health and public safety agencies and organizations that are designed to address illicit drug use and overdose.
- Collaborate with assigned DIO to build partnerships between local HIDTA program(s) and public health entities.
- Identify and promote promising overdose prevention interventions at the intersection of public health and public safety in assigned state or region.
- Support and evaluate public safety-led interventions designed to connect people who use drugs to care and treatment.
- Present to diverse audiences on overdose trends and local response efforts.
- Support projects that enhance public health/public safety collaborations through the identification of appropriate local partners, qualitative and quantitative data collection, and dissemination of project findings.
- Develop specialized knowledge of significant drug use and overdose trends in assigned state or region.
- Conduct overdose, drug use, and drug availability related data analyses on behalf of partner agencies, as needed.
- Create data visualizations on drug usage and overdose trends.
- Build partnerships with community members and partners by providing technical assistance and support through communications and one-on-one assistance, as well as connecting partners to additional resources.
- Develop and conduct trainings to diverse audiences on overdose prevention best practices to enhance response efforts (including but not limited to the development of presentations, one-pagers and other training materials).
- Explore and support additional projects that enhance public health/public safety collaborations through communication, information sharing, education, and partnership building.
- Develop products for site partners such as briefs, bulletins, reports, brochures or other educational materials.
- Support and evaluate public health and public safety interventions.
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in public health, the social sciences or a related field and minimum of 1 year of relevant experience; or Bachelor’s degree in public health, the social sciences or related field and minimum of 3 years of relevant experience; Associate’s degree with a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience; or a high school diploma with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
- Professional experience or demonstrated interest in substance use disorder treatment, harm reduction, drug policy and/or public health and public safety partnership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including public-speaking, presentation and listening skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work well independently and within teams.
- Ability to work effectively with diverse partners, including law enforcement professionals.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Familiarity with public health infrastructure within the state or region the position is located.
- Must be able to pass a formal federal background investigation, at no cost to the applicant.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law.
The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment. Relocation expenses are not included.
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