The Middlesex-London Health Unit has an exciting opportunity for a temporary, full-time Epidemiologist to work on the Population Health Assessment and Surveillance team in the Public Health Foundations division until May 2025, with the possibility of extension to November 2025.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Reporting to the Manager, Population Health Assessment and Surveillance, the Epidemiologist role provides leadership and expertise in the areas of population health assessment, surveillance, and reporting.

The successful candidate will complete duties including, but not limited to:

• Ensuring adherence to Ontario Public Health Standards by conducting population health assessments; collecting, analyzing, monitoring, interpreting and disseminating demographic and population health status data to support planning and decision-making; referencing and tracking current information about the morbidity, mortality, demography, health outcomes and risk factors of residents in Middlesex County and the City of London.
• Communicating with and guiding health unit frontline staff, team managers, senior leaders, and external partners about using population health assessment and research evidence to make decisions, as well as providing epidemiological, methodological, statistical, data, and analytical expertise.
• Analyzing and interpreting statistical data to monitor and identify results of health studies, populations at risk, and community environmental factors causing disease; preparing and disseminating health status reports.
• Leading or supporting health unit surveillance activities; providing epidemiological expertise and analytical support to outbreak and cluster investigations or other urgent or emerging situations.
• Proactively providing consultation and advice to ensure integration of population health assessment and research evidence supports for programmatic and strategic decision making.
• Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of intervention or control strategies; and determining health status outcomes in order to ensure that established program standards are met.
• Interpreting and analyzing statistical data for public health managers and advising them of implications of the data for public health policy, and as it relates to the implementation of the Ontario Public Health Standards.
• Reviewing proposed research and evaluation projects with regards to methodology and analyses, and conducting research about priority populations and emerging health status trends when indicated.
• Responding to urgent and emerging requests as required.
• Conducting epidemiological investigations of non-communicable disease and communicable disease upon request of the Medical Officer of Health.
• Other duties as required.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum requirement of a Master’s degree in Epidemiology;
• Experience applying epidemiological concepts and practice in a public health or health context;
• Ability to analyze, interpret, and summarize complex data and facilitate knowledge transfer for implementation of results, including preparation of written reports and delivery of presentations;
• Experience designing, executing, and managing analyses, including data quality assurance processes;
• Advanced skills using Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Teams;
• Advanced skills in the use of statistical analysis software packages (e.g., R, Stata);
• Experience using data analysis and visualization software packages (e.g., Power BI, ArcGIS);
• Awareness of and experience analyzing data from key public health data sources (e.g., BORN, CCHS, Census, DAD, iPHIS, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to communicate, build professional relationships, and solve problems, as well as organizational skills to effectively engage and collaborate with frontline practitioners, team managers, senior leaders, and external partners;
• Project management skills and ability to provide direction and project supervision to staff;
• Ability to prioritize tasks and activities with a high level of tolerance for complexity and ambiguity;
• Knowledge of the principles of health equity, and why it is a foundational standard for public health, including demonstrated ability to work with diverse individuals and/or communities to advance public health priorities;
• Strong skills and experience in the following areas are preferred:
  • Applied communicable and chronic disease epidemiology;
  • Theory and application of epidemiological concepts relevant to population health assessment and surveillance;
  • Methods to support evidence-informed decision-making;
  • Population health assessment with a focus on social determinants of health and health equity; and
  • Familiarity with Ontario privacy legislation;
• Robust understanding of the Ontario Public Health Standards and knowledge of current public health issues is an asset;
• Ability to communicate in French or any other languages is an asset.

The salary for this position ranges from $91,883.25 to $108,098.17 based on qualifications and experience.

To apply to this position, please go to www.healthunit.com and select “Apply Now” and submit a resume and cover letter as a single document by April 30, 2024.

Please note: new applicants will need to create an online account to apply. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at the Middlesex-London Health Unit; however only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

The Middlesex-London Health Unit is committed to equity in employment. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to establishing a qualified workforce that is reflective of the diverse population we serve. We encourage applications from equity-seeking communities including Indigenous peoples, racialized people, persons with disabilities, and those who identify as 2SLGBTQ+. Candidates are encouraged to voluntarily self-identify in their cover letter, in a transparent manner, as part of the application process. When a candidate voluntarily discloses such information in their application, the information will be kept confidential. Disclosure and/or self-identification with an equity-seeking community will not lead to advantageous treatment of a candidate who is not qualified.

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