Data Analyst, Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
QUEENS, NY — full-time
The Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use (BADU) works to close gaps and reduce overall morbidity and mortality related to alcohol and substance use among New Yorkers. BADU develops, implements, and evaluates interventions and prevention strategies through contracting of treatment, recovery and support services; policy analysis and development; epidemiology and surveillance; dissemination of treatment and management guidelines; harm reduction initiatives; public and provider outreach and education; and community involvement and interagency collaboration. The Bureau amplifies the voices of those most impacted and focuses on inequitable structural, social, service, and communication factors that drive disparities. The Office of Research, Surveillance, Policy, and Communications within BADU conducts alcohol- and drug-related surveillance, program evaluation and research, maintains databases, designs research protocols, produces reports, writes scientific articles for peer-reviewed journals, facilitates program and policy development, and develops messaging and other communication materials for provider and public audiences. In 2021, BADU established a drug-checking pilot to gain more insight into the unregulated drug supply and provide fact based information to people using the service. Using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and immunoassay test strips, trained drug checking technicians currently offer point-of-care drug-checking services at syringe service program locations in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn, including two sites that offer overdose prevention services. The Drug-Checking Data Analyst will support the development and implementation of data collection, analysis, and reporting systems for the drug-checking initiative. The Drug-Checking Data Analyst work collaboratively with the Drug Checking Team to coordinate and support data management activities, including monitoring and analyzing program data, ensuring data quality, supporting data requests, and preparing data products for internal and external stakeholders. DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO: 1. Extract, clean, manipulate, organize, and analyze drug-checking data primarily using R, REDCap, Excel, SQL, and other platforms 2. Work collaboratively with drug-checking technicians to perform quality assurance data checks and implement quality improvement processes to ensure data quality 3. Support the Senior Drug Checking Epidemiologist in designing and developing new methods of analyses for the drug-checking initiative in conjunction with the Bureau’s drug-related syndromic surveillance data to inform future program direction 4. Contribute to the design and maintenance of the drug-checking database, including queries and data entry procedures and preparing documentation 5. Support the creation and revision of study and data management documentation related to the drug-checking program, including data dictionaries and codebooks 6. Assist with the reporting of programm