The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH)'s Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (BHHS) oversees the City's response to viral hepatitis, HIV, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Across a range of programs and through extensive collaboration with other parts of NYC DOHMH and external stakeholders, BHHS leads testing initiatives; prevention, care, and treatment programming; epidemiology and surveillance; research and evaluation; training and technical assistance; community engagement; social marketing; policy advocacy; and racial equity and social justice initiatives. The mission of BHHS HIV program is to end HIV transmission, promote the health of all New Yorkers with or vulnerable to HIV, reduce HIV-related inequities and combat stigma. The HIV Program ACE (Assess. Connect. Engage.) Team of the New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) is responsible for providing partner services to approximately 2000 New Yorkers newly diagnosed with HIV each year, including the identification, tracing, notification and HIV-testing of their sex and needle-sharing partners. ACE staff ensures that all newly HIV-diagnosed persons are linked to HIV clinical care. ACE staff undertake the continuous education of providers and community members about HIV- related laws and regulations and build/maintain structure for timely reporting of HIV diagnosis and linkage to care and services for patients and partners to further curb further spread of HIV.
The ACE unit is looking for a Data Analyst to support the activities of multiple ACE projects.
Duties will include but not be limited to:
- Develop SAS programs to utilize HIV Surveillance System data and other internal data sources. This includes matching, merging, and cleaning data to create assignment lists.
- Carry out routine functions of data management such as data monitoring and quality assurance; Serve as backup analyst to the database manager.
- Contribute to the maintenance, review and update of the ACE database, protocols and standard operating procedures.
- Create and Maintain SAS programs and data dictionaries for data collection forms.
- Provide reports and data visualizations for internal and external stakeholders.
- Address data requests. Create program tables, slide sets, and assist in preparing analytical datasets.
- Prepare and contribute to abstracts, manuscripts, and presentations for scientific conferences and peer-reviewed journals.
- Deliver oral presentations of epidemiologic and operational analyses to diverse audiences, both scientific and non-scientific.
- Coordinate with eD2C funding clinics to facilitate the linkage of HIV clients to care by managing monthly case list creation, executing weekly pre-check list transfe