35 Hours/week (Part-time)

Established in 1805, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (the NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the country. Our mission is to protect and improve the health of all New Yorkers, in service of a vision of a city in which all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential, regardless of who they are, how old they are, where they are from, or where they live.

As a world-renowned public health agency with a history of building transformative public health programming and infrastructure, innovating in science and scholarship to advance public health knowledge, and responding to urgent public health crises from New York City’s yellow fever outbreak in 1822, to the COVID-19 pandemic we are a hub for public health innovation, expertise, and programs, and services. We serve as the population health strategist, and policy, and planning authority for the City of New York, while also having a vast impact on national and international public policy, including programs and services focused on food and nutrition, anti-tobacco support, chronic disease prevention, HIV/AIDS treatment, family and child health, environmental health, mental health, and racial and social justice work, among others.

Our Agency’s five strategic priorities, building off a recently-completed strategic planning process emerging from the COVID-19 emergency, are:
1) To re-envision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health emergencies, with a focus on building a “response-ready” organization, with faster decision-making, transparent public communications, and stronger surveillance and bridges to healthcare systems 2) Address and prevent chronic and diet-related disease, including addressing rising rates of childhood obesity and the impact of diabetes, and transforming our food systems to improve nutrition and enhance access to healthy foods
3) Address the second pandemic of mental illness including: reducing overdose deaths, strengthening our youth mental health systems, and supporting people with serious mental illness
4) Reduce black maternal mortality and make New York a model city for women’s health
5) Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change

Our 7,000-plus team members bring extraordinary diversity to the work of public health. True to our value of equity as a foundational element of all of our work, and a critical foundation to achieving population health impact in New York City, the NYC Health Department has been a leader in recognizing and dismantling racism’s impacts on the health of New Yorkers and beyond. In 2021, the NYC Board of Health declared racism as a public health crisis. With commitment to advance anti-racist public health practices that dismantle systems that perpetuate inequitable power, opportunity and access, the NYC Health Department continues to work in and with communities and community organizations to increase their access to health services and decrease avoidable health outcomes.

PROGRAM AND JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response (OEPR) promotes the Health Department's and NYC's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from health emergencies through the coordination of agency-wide emergency preparedness planning, training, and exercises and through regular engagement with communities as well as city, state and federal partners. OEPR envisions a healthy, resilient city in which all New Yorkers are able to achieve and maintain optimal and equitable health outcomes before, during, and after emergencies. OEPR's work recognizes the social inequities that can negatively impact our efforts to maintain and improve the health of New Yorkers during and after a disaster.

OEPR works to improve its application of a social justice and racial equity lens to its emergency preparedness and response work to ensure the most equitable post-disaster public health outcomes possible. Check out our project impact stories and videos at: Emergency Prep: What We Do - NYC Health.

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:

Provide clinical expertise for the development of agency and citywide plans, trainings and exercises to enhance emergency response capabilities in the public health and healthcare sector and contribute to continuous evaluation and improvement of a citywide approach to health and medical emergency response.

Establish and maintain strong relationships with key partners including healthcare facilities, institutions, networks, and associations to support preparedness and response.

Provide technical and medical expertise to support NYC Healthcare Coalition strategy development to ensure integration of medical operations across the healthcare system, leading clinical review of associated deliverables, supporting mass fatality planning with response partners, and contributing to planning for safe movement of patients to support surge management.

Serve a lead role in enhancing programing to engage and increase readiness of the pharmacy sector, including establishing a pharmacy contract for emergencies and working with pharmacy partners to improve bidirectional communications and coordination during emergencies.

Provide clinical expertise as needed to for public health emergency plans and field operations, including Medical Countermeasures provision through Points of Dispensing (PODs), Community Reception Centers (CRC), and Post Emergency Canvassing Operations (PECO) as well as citywide isolation and quarantine planning and operations.

Serve a response role in an agency Incident Command System (ICS) during an emergency, providing technical support for ICS Healthcare System Support Branch (HSSB) and assist the Public Information Officer and Provider Communications emergency response groups with development of response materials for healthcare partners and briefing healthcare partners during public health emergencies.

Develop manuscripts for publication, provide literature review of academic papers and participate in national meetings and workshops to inform policy and share and gather best practices.

Possession of a valid license to practice medicine in the State of New York; and either:
a) Valid Board Certification issued by the appropriate American Specialty Board in any specialty area required by the agency; or
b) Current approved application on file for admission to the certifying examination given by the appropriate American Specialty Board in any specialty area required by the agency.
To be assigned to Assignment Level II, individuals must have, in addition to meeting the minimum qualification requirements for Assignment Level I described above, one year of satisfactory experience practicing in the specialty area.
To be assigned to Assignment Level III, individuals must possess:
a) A valid license to practice medicine in the State of New York; and
b) A Master's degree in Public Health, or equivalent Master's degree, including or supplemented by graduate credits in epidemiology and biostatistics. Completion of Epidemic Intelligence Service program of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to substitute for this Master's degree; and
c) At least two years of satisfactory experience after receipt of the Master's degree, or equivalent, in the practice of epidemiology. Specialty Board Certification or eligibility may be substituted for one year of this experience.
To be assigned to Assignment Level IV, individuals must possess:
a) A valid license to practice medicine in the State of New York; and
b) Completion of an approved residency program in an accredited hospital, including three years of experience, in either internal medicine, or family practice, or pediatrics, or another related specialty area required by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; and
c) Valid board certification or board eligibility issued by the appropriate American Subspecialty Board in Infectious Disease, Pulmonary Medicine, or a related subspecialty; and
d) Completion of an approved fellowship program in an accredited hospital, including two years of experience, in either infectious diseases, or pulmonary medicine, or another related subspecialty required by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Prefer Board Certification in family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, surgery, infectious diseases or a closely related field. Master's Degree in public health, epidemiology and/or a residency in preventive medicine in addition to the above are a plus. Experience in project management, emergency preparedness planning & response, as well as experience managing an emergency incident in public health, and/or disaster medicine desired. Supervisory experience preferred. Ability to multitask and analyze, evaluate, and manage program operations. Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, and collaborative leadership skills required.

New York City Residency is not required for this position

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.