Job/Position DescriptionThe Office of Public Health Data Strategy and Modernization (OPHDSM) seeks a Health Informatics Specialist III for Public Health Informatics and Data Exchange Group with a strong epidemiologic methods background to oversee a dynamic team of public health professionals. The Health Informatics Specialist performs highly complex (senior-level) health informatics work. Work involves planning, conducting, and reporting on projects for the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS). Conducts program evaluation utilizing multiple methods of data collection and analyses. Works with large data sets, health-related data, and programming languages such as SAS. Works under limited supervision, with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment.Essential Job Functions(35%) Serves as team lead for a group of epidemiologists responsible for continuous assessment of NEDSS data quality validation, data quality assurance, data integrity, and coordinating and liaising with various disease programs that contribute data feeds to NEDSS. Reviews and validates all the statistical logic involved in the data cleaning and management process to ensure consistency, integrity, and accuracy of data. Develops, updates, and maintains data dictionaries, data quality assurance documentation, and data management guidelines. Designs evaluation plans including the development of goals and objectives, project timelines, and instruments. Support visualization of data using various approaches to enable the identification of inconsistent data patterns and data quality concerns and for public health results reporting. Prepares data documentation, protocols, analytic plans, reports, manuscripts, and presentation of study findings applying epidemiologic methods and best practices in public health science. Provides guidance and appropriate training to the team.(25%) Works in concert with staff from other areas of DSHS and staff from local and regional health departments. Assists in running statewide proficiency tests and provides feedback to NEDSS users. Assists in leading communications between the epidemiology teams. Contributes to the development of data standards, addressing privacy and data reliability concerns, as well as playing an active role in agency-wide data integration projects. Serves on committees, workgroups, and projects to meet research and data analysis needs. Provides the epidemiologic component of grant proposals and progress reports.(20%) Contributes to epidemiologic reports useful to OPHDSM and DSHS staff, public health and medical communities, and the public. Assists, directs, conducts, and participates in epidemiological studies and investigations of infectious diseases. Assembles appropriate epidemiological and laboratory resources to address disease outbreak investigations. Performs statistical analyses using advanced statistical software, interprets results, and writes articles and reports. Analyzes data and proposes epidemiological studies based on data gathered through surveillance projects and studies. Ensures appropriate communication and dissemination of findings and recommendations. Develops and implement new policies, protocols, and practices for quality assessment of data to ensure that scientific and standardized systems and processes are implemented uniformly across PHID.(15%) Serves as resource scientist/consultant and provides scientific/technical expertise to OPHDSM, DSHS, other agencies, and/or the general public i https://jobshrportal.hhsc.state.tx.us/ENG/CareerPortal/job_profile.cfm?szOrderID=589151 Copy the URL in the preceding sentence to an Internet Explorer browser to apply to the job directly through the Texas Health and Human Services Career Portal.