Clinical Informatics Specialist

Clinical Informatics Specialist

Full Time

Overview

Remote opportunity, with travel requested on a case-by-case basis. We offer full benefits (medical, dental, vision) with pension and Saving Choice available.

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 incumbents 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. One incumbent will join the Systems, Integrations, and Pipelines Unit and the other will join the Data Operations and Tools Unit.

This position requires strong programming (R, SQL, 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 prevention and control of communicable diseases.

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Responsibilities

• 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 COVID-19 and other reportable infectious diseases.
• Facilitation of electronic collection, storage, and transfer of data related to testing, vital statistics, or hospitalizations for infectious disease conditions.
• Synthesis and coordination of communicating data to public health partners across multiple data environments, including dynamic dashboards.
• Participating in complex data analysis, database design, and data quality assurance and quality improvement projects.
• Development of applications and tools to facilitate monitoring and access for pipelines and data systems.
• Innovating on new solutions to address stakeholder needs.

Unit Missions

The primary mission of the Systems, Integrations, and Pipelines Unit is to create and maintain data pipelines to transform data from surveillance and non-surveillance into usable format which is standardized across disease conditions and provided to programs via a centralized cloud-based data warehouse. The primary mission of the Data Operations and Tools unit is to create and maintain applications and tools which support monitoring, facilitate access to data systems, increase efficiency and scalability for branch projects, and are adaptable to stakeholders needs.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

About UCSF

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to health sciences, biomedical research, and patient care. We strive to improve health globally and foster diversity and inclusion in the workforce.

Pride Values

UCSF values professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity and excellence. We are committed to equity and building a diverse community. See the diversity statement here : statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of California San Francisco is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

Organization

Campus

Job Code and Payroll Title

008800 CLIN INFORMATICS SPEC 3

Job Category

Clinical Systems / IT Professionals

Bargaining Unit

99 - Policy-Covered (No Bargaining Unit)

Employee Class

Contract

Percentage

100%

Appointment End Date

30-Nov-2027

Location

Richmond, CA

Work Style

Flexible

Shift

Days

Shift Length

8 Hours

Additional Shift Details

M-F; 8am-5pm

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