Scientist Water Ecologist, Bureau Public Health Laboratory
Listed on 2026-10-11
-
Healthcare
Infectious Disease/ Epidemiology -
Science
Infectious Disease/ Epidemiology
Location: New York
Scientist Water Ecologist, Bureau of the Public Health Laboratory
- Full-time
- Agency: DEPT OF HEALTH/MENTAL HYGIENE
- Job Category:
Health - Salary Band: $90,000 to $100,000
- Compensation: USD 76,554 - USD 93,037
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 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.
The DOHMH PHL seeks a qualified candidate to serve as a Scientist Water Ecologist III in the Environmental Sciences Section. This position will play an integral role in laboratory testing and 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. This is an excellent opportunity to join our multidisciplinary team, and collaborate with local, state, federal, and academic partners.
The staff will primarily work within the Water Microbiology Unit unit utilizes microbiological and molecular microbiological tools to detect and monitor pathogens in drinking and recreational water, and non-potable water systems such as cooling towers. This includes NYC’s beach monitoring and Legionella response programs.
McGibbon E, Iuppa Burke E, Watts E, Beaver-Timmons B, Law V, Leung YL, George A, Qiu L, Silver S, Reddy V, Omoregie E, Siemetzki
- Kapoor U, Fung D, Schiff C, Ahuja SD. Outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease Associated with Cooling Tower Systems in Central Harlem. NEJM Evid. 2026 Jul;5
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).