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Classification ______________
Salary Grade _______________
Michigan Public Health Institute
Position Description
Title: National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Surveillance Epidemiologist
Employee Name:
TBA
Supervisor: Jay Fiedler, Surveillance and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section
Manager; Communicable Disease Division; Bureau of Epidemiology and Population
Health; Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
Purpose: This full-time NHSN Surveillance Epidemiologist will work on multiple
projects providing data analysis support. The NHSN Surveillance Epidemiologist will
help with ongoing analysis and reports of NHSN data including new data provided via
the Antimicrobial Use and resistance (AUR) Module, the Antimicrobial Stewardship
Communities of Care Initiative and NHSN Validation data.
Duties and Responsibilities:
 Qualitative and quantitative data analysis including large-scale data transfers,
trend graphing, and statistical analysis. Analyses will be performed on data from:
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Ongoing surveillance data provided from Michigan healthcare facilities via the
National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)
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Newly provided data from the NHSN Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR)
Classification
module
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Salary Code
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MDHHS’s Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Communities
of Care
Initiative
including initiative formation and design, data collection and data analysis
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MDHHS’s NHSN Validation activities
Complete data entry as needed
 Contribute to summary and feedback data report development, distribution, and
analysis.
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All other duties as assigned.
 Maintain a positive, strong, credible, professional and interpersonal relationship
with all parties relevant of MPHI projects, and represent to the best interest of MPHI
at all times
Qualifications/Requirements:
Education: Possession of a master's degree with a major in epidemiology or
public health with a minimum of 8 semester (12 term) graduate-level hours in
epidemiology and biostatistics courses.
MPHI is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
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Experience: Coursework in basic Biostatistics, Epidemiology.
Important Skills and Characteristics: Employee must have excellent oral and
written communication skills and be able to work well in team situations. Selfmotivated, ability to simultaneously lead multiple groups with different goals,
able to complete work in timely manner, and handle multiple tasks at one
time under supervision. Knowledge of epidemiology, biostatistics, and data
analysis; of spreadsheets and database software; of general record keeping
and filing systems; and of basic mathematics preferred. Proficiency in
Microsoft Office applications and familiarity with email/internet browser
software.
Work Environment and Physical Requirements: Standard office environment.
Job may require moderate physical effort including lifting materials and
equipment of <50# and involves viewing a CRT or VDT screen 25–75% of the
time.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WORK OF OTHERS: No assigned responsibility.
IMPACT ON PROJECTS, SERVICES AND OPERATIONS
This position will provide training and education at the Masters level to develop and
enhance healthcare–associated and resistant pathogen infectious disease
surveillance. This area of Public Health is new and exemplifies an important issue in
emerging infectious diseases across the country. The problems of healthcareassociated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial resistance were once thought to be
confined to the hospital setting, but are now impacting the community. Employee
will have a direct impact upon the healthcare facility and state-level HAI surveillance.
REQUIRED COMMUNICATION
Contact Person/Group
TBD – SHARP Unit Manager
Jay Fiedler
Allison Murad
Brenda Brennan
Noreen Mollon
TBD – AR Epi
Frequency
Weekly
Weekly
Daily
Daily
Daily
Daily
Purpose
Supervision
Interim Supervision
Project oversight
Project oversight
Project Oversight
Project Oversight
For purposes of employment standards, this classification is “Non-Exempt” from the
overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Signature_______________________________________ Date_________________
Employee Signature
Signature_______________________________________ Date_________________
Supervisor or Program Director
MPHI is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
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