PHO provides expert scientific and technical support relating to infection prevention and control; surveillance and epidemiology; health promotion, chronic disease and injury prevention; environmental and occupational health; health emergency preparedness; and public health laboratory services to support health providers, the public health system and partner ministries in making informed decisions and taking informed action to improve the health and security of Ontarians.

Further information is available at www.publichealthontario.ca.

This position is focused on communicable disease prevention and control with a primary focus on including tuberculosis and sexually-transmitted and blood-borne virus infections but as well enteric, zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, respiratory infections and related public health surveillance and control activities.

Although this position does not comprehensively focus on immunization and vaccine preventable diseases, these dimensions are included in a number of infectious diseases within this portfolio, e.g. influenza, hepatitis A and B.

As such, the key responsibilities of this position are the following:
• Provide specialized advice and contribute field relevant and practice-based expertise to CDEPR, particularly in reference to providing advice to public health partners. An important part of these functions are made concrete through scientific support to the Provincial Infectious Disease Advisory Committee- Communicable Disease.
• Provide specialized input to ongoing infectious disease surveillance activities and provide scientific leadership to the investigation and control of communicable disease outbreaks when PHO input is expected/requested.
• Contribute to the planning and implementation of CDEPR initiatives, including providing oversight for selected CDEPR-led projects.
• Support the Director in ensuring that the scientific and technical advice provided to public health partners is of the highest quality (including ensuring public health partner relevance).
• Provide specialist support, collaboration and mentoring for the operational director, managers and staff of the CDPC Program.
• Participate in CDEPR scientific studies, as collaborator, co-investigator or principal investigator based on experience, skills and team complement.
• Take a lead role in the scientific contributions to ongoing updates/revisions to the Ontario Public Health Standards and the relevant communicable/infectious disease protocols and guidance documents.
• Supervise and mentor Public Health and Preventive Medicine residents and other trainees as required.
• As required, this position will also represent PHO, promoting our mandate and strategic initiatives through presentations at meetings, conferences and other activities. In so doing, the position will serve as a bridge to enhance connections between the CDEPR Department and public health partners.

This position will provide the successful candidate with valuable personal and professional development. The successful candidate will gain hands-on experience at the provincial agency level.

Less qualified applicants may be considered on an underfill basis.