Clinical Informatics Specialist | University of California San Francisco - Military Veterans

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Center for Infectious Diseases (CID) Informatics Branch is recruiting for two Clinical Informatics Specialist III's 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. Responsibilities will include: 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 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 useable 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. 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. To see the salary range for this position (we recommend that you make a note of the job code and use that to look up): TCS Non-Academic Titles Search (ucop.edu) Please note: The compensation ranges listed online for roles not covered by a bargaining unit agreement are very wide, however a job offer will typically fall in the range of 80% - 120% of the established mid-point. An offer will take into consideration the experience of the final candidate AND the current salary level of individuals working at UCSF in a similar role. For roles covered by a bargaining unit agreement, there will be specific rules about where a new hire would be placed on the range. To learn more about the benefits of working at UCSF, including total compensation, please visit: https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/compensation-and-benefits/index.html