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Portage County Combined General Health District benefits:

• And much more!
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Vacation time, personal time, sick time, and paid holidays.
• OPERS retirement system for State of Ohio employees. The employee contributes 10% of their salary and the employer contributes 14% of the employee’s salary. Visit the OPERS website for more information.
• Schedules to support a work/life balance.
• Life insurance, short- and long-term disability options are also offered.
• Employee Wellness Programs
• Robust benefits including medical, dental, vision, an employee assistance program and more!

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Portage County Combined General Health District is seeking a full-time Epidemiologist to join our team and study outbreaks and infectious disease investigations. This role will monitor and provide data for various infectious diseases using surveillance systems to monitor significant disease trends and early detection of emerging infectious diseases.

• Other duties as assigned. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
• Reviews, evaluates, and analyzes public health data to inform community stakeholders and partners.
• Other duties as assigned. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
• 120 days probationary period.
• Leads Investigation of infectious diseases both naturally occurring and bioterrorist incidents. Interprets and implements local, state, and federal guidelines related to infectious disease control.
• Investigates, coordinates, and/or assists with all reported disease outbreaks or illness clusters.
• Prepares written and oral reports and presentations that communicate necessary information for a variety of audiences.
• Collaborates with internal and external partners on special projects as assigned.
• Uses surveillance systems to collect disease or health outcome data. Generates descriptive analyses of surveillance data for a variety of audiences. Monitors various infectious disease surveillance systems (i.e., epicenter anomalies, ODRS, etc.) for significant disease trends and early detection of emerging infectious diseases.

Organizational Duties:

• Participates in public health emergency activities as needed.
• Gathers and organizes documents to satisfy public records requests or other reporting obligations.
• Incident Command System/National Incident Management System training.
• Attend and participate in agency training, events, and activities.
• Participate in quality improvement team projects, quality improvement training initiatives and performance management as applicable/ required and incorporate the principles of quality improvement into daily work activities.