Public Health Data Analyst: Drug-Checking & Surveillance

City of New York; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Loan Forgiveness

Health Insurance

Pension Plan

Work From Home

Job summary

The City of New York's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC Health Department) seeks a City Research Scientist to support data collection, analysis, and reporting for the drug-checking initiative and related surveillance projects. The role emphasizes data quality, reproducible methods, and collaboration with epidemiologists and program staff.

You will develop dashboards and reports, contribute to manuscripts, and assist with IRB materials while advancing health equity goals and rigorous

Qualifications

• Experience analyzing public health data in applied settings using R.
• Experience with REDCap, SQL, and data management.
• Ability to design and implement data quality checks and dashboards.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Extract, clean, and analyze drug-checking data using R, REDCap, SQL, and Excel.
• Collaborate with technicians to ensure data quality and QA processes.
• Assist design of analyses for surveillance data with epidemiologists.
• Develop and maintain the drug-checking database and documentation.
• Support reporting, dashboards, and ad-hoc data requests.
• Contribute to data management documentation and IRB preparation.
• Support manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals.
• Contribute to health equity activities.

Skills

R

REDCap

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Excel

Data quality

Tools

R Studio

SQL

Tableau

Excel

Job description

The City of New York's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC Health Department) seeks a City Research Scientist to support data collection, analysis, and reporting for the drug-checking initiative and related surveillance projects. The role emphasizes data quality, reproducible methods, and collaboration with epidemiologists and program staff.

You will develop dashboards and reports, contribute to manuscripts, and assist with IRB materials while advancing health equity goals and rigorous