Bioinformatics Scientist , Bureau Public Health Laboratory

Job Description

The New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene(DOHMH) is a public health leader serving over 8.4 million New York City residents from diverse ethnic, cultural, and economic backgrounds. The NYC Public Health Laboratory (PHL) is one of the largest local public health laboratories in the United States offering a dynamic and innovative work environment where employees contribute to the health and safety of NYC residents by providing clinical and environmental laboratory testing services.

With more than 100 years of leadership in public health, a team of over 200 scientific and support staff that are committed to its mission to safeguard the health of all NYC residents by providing quality laboratory testing services that support the priorities of the NYC DOHMH and its community partners to prevent and respond to clinical and environmental public health concerns.

PHL seeks a qualified candidate to serve as a Bioinformatics Scientist. This position will work primarily in PHL's Bioinformatics Unit. This position will develop and maintain analysis pipelines as well as perform bioinformatics analyses for high through put sequencing (HTS) data. It will play an integral role in genomics analysis aimed at responding to public health threats, including but not limited to COVID-19, vaccine preventable diseases, HIV, Legionella as well as respiratory, foodborne, and waterborne disease outbreaks.