BME Strategies

Consultant

• *Position Overview*
• - Lead the business and analytic direction of dashboards, ensuring they are actionable, policy-relevant, and aligned with DPH priorities, best practice standards, and local public health needs.
• - Lead the content, structure, and use cases for statewide and local public health dashboards, ensuring usability for local public health and relevance for state partners.
• - Define and document business requirements, KPIs, success criteria, and analytic assumptions for dashboards and reports.
• - Validate that dashboards meet local and state public health needs, including analytic clarity, usability, and equity considerations.
• - Serve as a biostatistical subject matter expert for dashboard design, interpretation, and data quality decisions.
• - Provide analytic guidance on appropriate methods for public health reporting, including rate construction, age adjustment, suppression practices, trend analysis, and interpretation of reliability.
• - Research, vet, and document datasets to understand limitations, biases, suppression rules, and interpretation risks.
• - Work with common public health dataset types, including mortality and death records, injury and violence data, chronic disease indicators, syndromic or near–real-time surveillance data, hospitalization and utilization data, and population-based datasets such as PLACES, Census and American Community Survey data, and social determinants of health indicators.
• - Incorporate social, demographic, and environmental context into analytic outputs, with appropriate documentation of assumptions and limitations.
• - Ensure dashboards and analytic products reflect the realities of municipal, regional, rural, and capacity-constrained public health settings and align with Foundational Public Health Services.
• - Serve as the primary point of contact for DPH partners on dashboard-related work.
• - Facilitate analytic discussions with local public health and program partners, translating complex concepts into clear, decision-ready insights.
• - Oversee Tableau dashboard development, ensuring analytic integrity, equity-focused design, and clear interpretation.
• - Contribute to dashboards, metadata, reports, newsletters, and other partner-facing materials with clear written communication.

Senior Public Health Analytics Consultant