Public Health Data Analyst, Onkwata’karitáhtshera

Produce health & wellness surveillance indicators and reports
➢ Receives specific health and wellbeing data analysis requests from Onkwata’karitáhtshera, community organizations and individuals, clarifies the nature of the request, addresses and prioritizes these as guided by the Public
Health Officer and the Data Mining subcommittee.
➢ Responsible regularly updating the community health portraits stewarded by Onkwata’karitáhtshera.
➢ Specific indicators or analyses may be requested ad hoc to aid a stakeholder organization in understanding a specific concern, issue, or to evaluate the function of a program.
➢ Evaluates and maintains health and wellness dataset quality, processes raw data
information.
➢ Maintains an inventory of, and familiarity with, the various datasets related to health and wellbeing in the community (e.g. surveys done by community entities, operational organization datasets), accesses these as appropriate and according to policies in place.
➢ Maintains familiarity with standard approaches to measurement and representation of health and wellness indicators used in other jurisdictions (e.g. major national health and wellbeing surveys, provincial administrative health databases and reports).
➢ Analyzes datasets using appropriate software and methodology and presents indicators and trends in desired formats (tables, graphs, text, reports, PowerPoint, etc.).
➢ Maintains an understanding of population health, community services and applies this context to data analysis tasks (e.g. identifying the appropriate time period in which a particular service started or stopped, choosing appropriate age categories for analysis).
➢ Maintains familiarity with chronic diseases, mental health, infections and other dimensions of wellbeing and applies this knowledge to data collection and analysis (e.g. identifying appropriate threshold measures). Seeks more detailed information from experts as needed for completion of tasks.
➢ Seeks methodology and content guidance from the Public Health Officer
➢ Validates data interpretations and deliverables with the Public Health Officer and with the Data Mining Subcommittee of Onkwata’karitáhtshera. Supports data gathering and analysis needs as part of a timely response to infectious disease outbreaks and environmental health risk assessments
➢ Designs line-lists and other data collection tools specific to the event and in keeping with the needs of Environmental Health Services or Infectious Disease staff who are responding to an event.
➢ Produces analyses, graphs or other deliverables pertinent to event data to help intervention teams understand and respond to the situation.
➢ Seeks methodology and content guidance from the Public Health Officer.
Coordinates preparation and implementation of the Regional
Health Survey in community
➢ Organizes and implements a work plan of all required activities and tasks associated with the survey coordination, launch, and data tracking tool. This major survey is cyclical, occurring approximately every 5 years.
➢ Facilitates and consults with external support services such as First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission (FNQLHSSC) and the First Nations Information Governance Centre (FNIGC) throughout the data collection, analysis, and development of the final report.
➢ Undertakes preparatory training.
➢ Supports, recruits and oversees community surveyors, including training, IT challenges, and processing of surveyor’s payment requests.
➢ Organizes promotional activities for the survey. Supports Public Health data capacity building in community
➢ Receives and clarifies nature of ad hoc requests for support, prioritizes it as appropriate with guidance from manager and Public Health Officer.
➢ Supports the gathering and analyzing of appropriate key performance indicator measures for programs funded via the CHPI.
➢ Creates or organizes trainings/workshops for community staff and community members pertinent to data collection and data use, at a level appropriate to the audience.
➢ Collaborates to conduct data quality audits and staff refreshers as needed
(internal and external among community partner organizations).
➢ Supports partner organizations (KMHC, KSCS, KFB) to better collect, organize and analyze existing datasets to answer operational needs (e.g. forms, surveys, structuring datafiles, excel templates, coding, graphing of operational data service utilization, access to care, etc.).
➢ Attends meetings, workshops, conferences or sits on committees as is relevant.
➢ Supports KSCS, KMHC and KFB Management teams in the creation of protocols
and policies relating to health and wellness surveillance.
➢ Continually improves personal skill sets through engagement with ongoing training opportunities, collaboration with experts external to the Public Health Unit, particularly data analysts and epidemiologists at the regional, province, federal partner entities and FNQLHSSC.
➢ May be required to supervise, train and monitor performance of students or other members of the team.
Perform any other job-related duties as may be required by the immediate supervisor.