Job Summary:

The California Department of Public Health Center for Public Health Reporting Information Exchange (PRIME) Branch is recruiting for an Informatics Supervisor 2 to join an exciting team developing innovative solutions to strengthen CDPH’s public health data ecosystem. The incumbent will join the team leading the design and implementation of disease prevention and control activities related to electronic laboratory reporting of reportable communicable diseases. Responsibilities will include the following:

• Applying advanced professional public health informatics concepts and extensive knowledge of industry practices to projects of all levels of scope and complexity.
• Leading project teams in developing innovative informatics and public health data collection, monitoring, management, and analysis systems.
• Identifying and implementing strategies for integrating multiple data systems and improving existing public health surveillance data systems and infrastructure. Conducting data quality assurance and quality improvement projects.
• Developing protocols and guidelines and providing information and technical assistance to support local health jurisdictions and other CDPH program partners in data modernization, particularly as it relates to electronic laboratory reporting.
• Act as a technical lead to data analysts, data specialists, contract staff, and epidemiologists. Additionally, this position requires strong informatics knowledge to coordinate laboratory data collection, data exchange, reporting and analytics, quality assurance/quality control processes, and identification and resolution of reporting results. The position will interact and collaborate with several multidisciplinary CDPH teams as well as other internal and external partners as they contribute to communicable disease projects.
Supervise contract staff responsible for ensuring that laboratory data submitters are reporting timely and complete data to public health.

Department Overview:

The Clinical Informatics Supervisor hired will contribute to infectious and non-infectious disease work within the Public Health Reporting Information Exchange Branch (PRIME) and collaborate with programs across the Center for Infectious Disease (CID) in CDPH. This specific position will join staff in the PRIME Branch of the Division of Communicable Disease Control. The scope of the REIME Branch’s work includes managing and analyzing electronic laboratory data, ensuring the completeness and quality of electronically reported laboratory data, and advancing and modernizing public health surveillance data systems, particularly as it relates to electronic laboratory reporting.

UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) is dedicated to improving health and reducing the burden of disease in the world’s most vulnerable populations. It integrates UCSF expertise in all of the health, social, and biological sciences, and focuses that expertise on pressing issues in global health. IGHS works with partners in countries throughout the world to achieve these aims. IGHS seeks to improve health worldwide, especially in developing countries, through research that informs policy.

IGHS is committed to ensuring a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment as we work towards becoming an anti-racist organization. We strongly encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. Please see our statement on anti-racism here: https://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/about-us/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/statementhttps://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/about-us/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/statement-structural-racismstructural-racism.

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in public health, health care information technology, computer science, or related area, and / or equivalent experience / training.
• 3 years of lead/supervisory experience
• 5+ years of experience in electronic laboratory reporting
• 5+ years of experience with Health Level Seven International (HL7) V2.x interoperability standards
• Demonstrated ability to effectively supervise, coordinate, and prioritize the activities of subordinate staff, and to manage the complex workflow and multiple priorities involved with clinical informatics.
• Strong knowledge of clinical informatics analytics, controlled terminology, clinical workflows, user interface optimization, clinical decision support, data integration and mining, clinical ontologies and adoption of technology.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to quickly analyze problems, determine appropriate level of intervention, and develop and apply effective solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with senior management on operational and policy issues, with the skills to gather data, and prepare and present proposals and reports on department functions and performance.
• Advanced interpersonal skills and persuasiveness, with the ability to collaborate with clinical, technical, and business personnel to promote effective integration of patient care, clinical information systems, and business management functions.
• Strong knowledge of human resources management policies, with the ability to monitor, evaluate, and document personnel matters and performance and contribute to decision making on personnel actions.
Strong written and verbal communications skills, with the ability to convey complex technical information in a clear, concise, and specific manner to subordinate staff, management, and all clinical informatics users

Preferred:

• Master’s or doctoral degree in computer science, informatics, public health, biostatistics, epidemiology or epidemiology and biostatistics and / or equivalent experience / training.