The CDC Foundation helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) save and improve lives by unleashing the power of collaboration between CDC, philanthropies, corporations, organizations, and individuals to protect the health, safety and security of America and the world. The CDC Foundation is the go-to nonprofit authorized by Congress to mobilize philanthropic partners and private-sector resources to support CDC’s critical health protection mission. Since 1995, the CDC Foundation has raised over $1 billion and launched more than 1,000 programs impacting a variety of health threats from chronic disease conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer, to infectious diseases like rotavirus and HIV, to emergency responses, including COVID-19 and Ebola. The CDC Foundation managed hundreds of CDC-led programs in the United States and in more than 140 countries last year. Learn more at www.cdcfoundation.org.
The CDC Foundation is working with CDC and state and local authorities to provide surge staffing that are crucial to the nation’s COVID-19 response including support for implementation of COVID-19 vaccine. For this position, the CDC Foundation seeks candidates who are experienced public health professionals to provide support to a state or local health department in the ongoing fight against COVID-19.This resource will join an existing team at the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) in the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange (CalREDIE) program that is working towards integrating COVID-19 electronic case report (eCR) data streams into existing surveillance system. This will include supporting the establishment of eCR message ingestion, parsing, flattening, and pre-processing for data integration activities. This position will implement integration tools and establish pipelines for pre-processing, matching/linkage, and integration with surveillance data. This resource will have substantial professional experience with Health Level Seven International (HL7) messaging standards, interface engineering (preferably Lyniate/Rhapsody) and HL7 xml v3 messages. Experience with JSON and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) a plus.Responsibilities
- Provide HL7 interface/data integration development, maintenance, support, and troubleshooting
- HL7 hands-on development, data utilization, and establishment of integration processes and interfaces for HL7 pre-processing, data transformation and ingestion into databases and systems
- Conduct testing/validation and migrate the interface components into a live, production environment
- Independently conduct data analyses and compare incoming eCR and ELR data streams
- Develop and create data quality analysis reports for leadership
Qualifications
- Master's degree in a relevant field from an accredited university plus three (3) years of full-time experience is strongly encouraged.
- Experience with both common and emerging interoperability standards such as HL7 V2.x, V3, IHE profile, Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), CCD, JSON and FHIR
- Hands-on Relational Database experience (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server)
- Expert on Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) concepts, Design, Reports, Complex queries, and Optimization
- Strong understanding of web-based technologies, XML processing, SOAP, REST, JSON, Web services, etc.
- Thorough knowledge of public health principles and practices, epidemiology, and biostatistics.
- Ability to effectively work independently and within a team environment.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with national, state, and local partners in various governmental, private, and voluntary agencies.
Job Highlights
- Salary:$115,000 - $120,000 , Exempt
- Position Type: Limited Term Position
- Position End Date: 07/31/2022
- Full Suite of Benefits Offered
- Remote/Hybrid/Onsite:Remote
Notice to Applicants:The CDC Foundation requires all employees to be fully vaccinated* for COVID-19 as a condition of employment effective November 22, 2021. All offers of employment after that date are contingent upon proof of full-vaccination status as a part of the pre-employment process.*Fully vaccinated is defined as follows: At least two weeks have passed since receipt of the Johnson amp; Johnson single-dose vaccine, or the second dose of the either the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech two-dose vaccines.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age