About This Role
An Epidemiologist provides technical support for public health surveillance, outbreak investigation, and response, ensuring efficient data collection, analysis, and reporting. This role involves developing and maintaining surveillance systems, supporting rapid response teams, and contributing to national capacities for health emergencies.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical support and assist in the development of surveys and monitoring/surveillance systems for detection, verification, and response to public health incidents
- Ensure efficiency of data collection, correlation, analysis, interpretation, and timely reporting at health facility and district levels
- Collate and verify data on reported outbreaks or rumors received from multiple sources
- Conduct retrospective analysis of reported incidents to determine trends, distribution patterns, and efficiency of the verification mechanism
- Brief the team on data quality improvement, use of data for monitoring of trends, ALERT and ACTION thresholds (triggers), and methodologies for performing Data Quality Audit (DQA)
- Provide technical assistance for the establishment and functionality of Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) and Public Health Management Committee (PHEMC) for potential hazards at the district level
- Contribute to building core surveillance, alert, and response national capacities in accordance with IHR 2005 requirements
- Provide trainings for subnational incident management team and health facility level staff
- Support the team in supervision and on-the-job training at health facility level
- Support the development of early warning systems for epidemic and pandemic-prone diseases for early detection and response to public health incidents
- Conduct field investigation
- Provide technical support for vulnerability assessment, risk mapping, and development of preparedness/contingency plans at district level
- Maintain an incident management system database of reported outbreaks and public health incidents at the district level
- Document all steps taken in the verification and response process
- Facilitate district surveillance monthly review meetings, including tracking surveillance performance indicators
- Monitor and evaluate the implementation of planned surveillance activities, as well as alert and response capacities for incident detection, verification, and response in compliance with IHR 2005
- Prepare and disseminate disease outbreak news, technical documents, updates, and assessments to key decision-makers and national health authorities using standard tools and templates (e.g., OSCAR)
- Perform any other incident-specific related duties, as required by the functional supervisor
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