As a Health Scientist (Informatics) you will:
- Develop and implement scientific policies and procedures on informatics practices and principles.
- Develop strategies to meet short and long-range goals for the applicable program as it relates to public health informatics.
- Assure that strategies reflect most promising directions in research, preventive, and clinical approaches as it relates to public health informatics.
- Collaborate and provide expert scientific advice to a variety of nation-wide and international organizations to synthesize, develop and implement informatics policies and directions for future development.
- Evaluate and develop approaches for strengthening the standardization and utility of national health information systems, their products, policies and processes, with special emphasis on electronic data interchange and electronic media.
- Provide leadership in the development, testing, implementation and evaluation of scientific information technology and information systems needs and applicable software systems relating to public health informatics within the area of responsibility.
- Promote the development, use and dissemination of information and information technology in regards to health data systems, with an emphasis on public health applications.
