Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Analyst

Duties

• Generate STD surveillance reports from the STD PRISM database system to identify STD surveillance data from clinical providers and laboratories and ensure that they follow state legal and policy mandates, and that data is complete and correct.
• Ensure that data on new cases is shared with regional Disease Prevention Teams (DPT) for follow-up.
• Respond to regional questions and data needs related to surveillance information, particularly for more complex cases such as maternal and congenital syphilis.
• Prioritize and schedule in-person and virtual STD surveillance educational visits for the team.
• Cover data to assess improvements in appropriate clinical treatment of STD (most notably correct treatment of gonorrhea and timely, accurate and complete reporting of STD).
• Mentors and trains other surveillance staff and DPT staff in these duties and roles, including effective means of communication and training with clinical providers/practices.
• Utilize STD surveillance reports generated in PRISM to establish statewide priorities for surveillance and educational visits based on both areas/providers with high STD morbidity and those that have reporting issues.
• Cookordination statewide staff to conduct visits, including surveillance staff of the STD Program and regional Disease Prevention Teams (DPT).

Requirements

• 3 years minimum experience working in health or public health fields, particularly related to infectious diseases.
• Excellent communication skills.
• 3 years minimum in public speaking, educational presentations and/or health-related training.
• Proficiency in multiple computer applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel.

Qualifications

• Associate Degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, or Accounting and one (1) year of directly related job experience in the areas of office administration, budgeting, purchasing, finance, accounting, auditing, cash management, contract management, and/or in the procedures of business and management principles involved in strategic planning.
• Any combination of education from an accredited college or university in a related field and/or direct experience in this occupation totaling three (3) years may substitute for the required education and experience.