Department of Health (Albany, NYPORTS) - Public Health Fellow II (Epidemiology and Data)
This job posting link to this position within the New York State Public Health Corps Fellowship Program can be found HERE:
Department of Health (Albany, NYPORTS) - Public Health Fellow II (Epidemiology and Data) - Career Portal (dayforcehcm.com)
Fellowship Position Specific Description
The Department of Health (Albany) Public Health Fellow II will work in the area of Epidemiology and Data with a focus in public health infrastructure development and COVID-19. This position is located in Albany, NY at the Corning Tower Department of Health Office. The Fellow will support the New York Patient Occurrence Reporting Tracking System (NYPORTS) Program, which oversees reporting on the NYPORTS online application, which is a mandatory, confidential, adverse event reporting system for all general hospitals and diagnostic and treatment centers licensed by DOH. The NYPORTS program is seeking a nurse with at least bachelor level education and post-graduate experience working in clinical settings, with a strong preference for applicants with direct experience in hospital and/or diagnostic and treatment center locations. The Fellow will primarily review and triage adverse event submissions and perform education and outreach to licensed facilities to further strengthen the program's role in improving health care quality through non-punitive measures and best practice development. Specific duties will include:
- Assist in the review and closure of adverse events submitted by DOH-licensed facilities, including reducing the backlog of 5,000 open adverse events.
- Aid in the development of correspondence, written policies, procedures, and staff training materials that are needed to sustain programmatic adherence to statutory and regulatory compliance in the event of staff turnover and retirement.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate timely publication and sharing of NYPORTS data through the verification of adverse event submissions and reports.
- Assist in reviewing backlogged cases for ICD codes that are related to COVID-19 conditions, with a particular emphasis on cases resulting in maternal or infant adverse events, for research purposes.
This position is up to 50% remote after 1 month of full in-person training.