Public Health Epidemiologist II - County of Monterey, CA

Public Health Epidemiologist II

$6,291 – $8,588 per Month

Priority Screen Date: 05/06/2024

Summary of Position

The County of Monterey Health Department’s Administration Bureau has two full-time vacancies available for the position of Public Health Epidemiologist II in the Planning, Evaluation and Policy (PEP) Unit. One of these positions will also help support the Health Department’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Bureau.  

The PEP Unit provides intra-Bureau and Departmental coordination to improve social equity, engage the community and improve quality with a focus on prevention and health equity.  The PEP Unit facilitates access to care strategies, coordinates a county-wide Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach, promotes health equity efforts, and manages the Department’s accreditation. The Public Health Epidemiologist IIworks within the PEP Epidemiology & Surveillance Unit to analyze data with a focus on health equity, chronic disease, and social determinants of health. This includes assignments of a single, large, and complex project or multiple smaller projects, developing study protocol and methodologies, conducting advanced data analyses, responding to complex data requests and preparing community reports and technical reports that involve interpretation of findings and policy recommendations. This includes conducting reviews and developing recommendations on a variety of proposals, evidence-based strategies or policies related to community health, land use, social determinants of health and health equity.  Additional projects this position supports are conducting cost & risk mitigation analysis and evaluation analyses for various public health programs.

The EMS Bureau oversees the delivery of EMS within Monterey County, ensures the regulations relative to the EMS systems are carried out as intended by the California Emergency Medical Services Authority, and provide quality improvement to the EMS system with a focus on EMS system performance and population health outcomes.  The Public Health Epidemiologist II works with the EMS Director, EMS Medical Director, and EMS stakeholders to analyze data and provide recommendations for improvement of the performance of the EMS system. This includes receiving, assessing, performing advanced analytics, and generating audiovisual reports using data from multiple medical dispatch centers, first responder fire departments, ground, and air ambulance provider and four county hospitals. This may also include medical disaster preparedness and response functions as needed by the EMS Bureau.  

The position works collaboratively with clients, community stakeholders, other Health Department programs, emergency medical service providers, hospital representatives and members of the public to monitor population health outcomes, provide recommendations for improvement, evaluate program practices and contribute to creating a healthier Monterey County.  

Health Department offers up to $10,000 signing bonus to candidates hired into regular full-time positions for this classification from this recruitment (24/50N11/04CY). 

The Eligible List established by this recruitment process may be used to fill current and future vacancies on a regular full-time, part-time, or temporary basis [County-wide].