Public Health Advisor

Job Title: Public Health Advisor
Department: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Division: Disease Control
Bureau: Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, & STIs

Location: NYC-All Boroughs
Reports to

Title:

Coordinator, Supervising Public Health Advisor, Public Health Epidemiologist
Direct Reports Title(s): N/A

Schedule &

Hours:

M-F, 8 am-4 pm or 9 am-5 pm

Workplace Flexibility Modality: No option for hybrid or work from home
Work Environment: Office, NYC community (e.g., home visit, clinic/hospital)

Grant End Date: April 30, 2028

Created Date: April 3, 2026

Revised Date: NA

Salary: $30 - $34/hr

The Fund for Public Health in New York City (FPHNYC) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that is dedicated to the advancement of the health and well-being of all New Yorkers. To this end, in partnership with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), FPHNYC incubates innovative public health initiatives implemented by DOHMH to advance community health throughout the city.

It facilitates partnerships, often new and unconventional, between government and the private sector to develop, test, and launch new initiatives. These collaborations speed the execution of demonstration projects, effect expansion of successful pilot programs, and support rapid implementation to meet the public health needs of individuals, families, and communities across New York City.

We embrace a culture of learning, collaboration, innovation, and well-being, where open communication drives our impact.

The ACE (Assess. Connect. Engage.) Team within the New York City Department of Health Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Bureau of Hepatitis, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections (BHHS) is staffed with Public Health Advisors (PHA). PHA are responsible for providing partner services to approximately 2000 New Yorkers newly diagnosed each year, including the identification, tracing, notification and HIV-testing of their sex and needle-partners.

PHA ensures that all newly HIV-diagnosed persons are linked to HIV clinical care. PHA is responsible for outreach to the approximately 2,000 HIV providers and community-based organizations. PHA undertake the continuous education of providers and community members about HIV-related laws and regulations and build/maintain structure for timely reporting of HIV diagnosis and linkage and services for patients and partners to curb further spread of HIV.

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH)'s Bureau of Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections (BHHS) oversees the City's response to viral hepatitis, HIV, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Across a range of programs and through extensive collaboration with other parts of NYC DOHMH and external stakeholders, BHHS leads testing initiatives; prevention, treatment programming; epidemiology and surveillance;

research and evaluation; training and tech assistance; community engagement; social marketing; policy advocacy; and racial equity and social initiatives.

• Interview HIV-diagnosed persons to elicit HIV-exposed partners, locate and notify partners, and provide HIV rapid testing in mobile settings to notified partners;
• Connect persons with a new HIV diagnosis to clinical care;
• Use HIV transmission network data to identify and reach out to not in care persons, including contact tracing;
• Trace and locate HIV-diagnosed persons who are out-of-care and connect them to clinical care;
• Engage HIV-diagnosed persons and their partners with HIV prevention and ancillary services;
• Link HIV-negative partners to PrEP providers for evaluation and counseling;
• Collect data on HIV cases to fulfill surveillance and case investigation data requirements, including record review, patient and provider interviews;
• Serve in an activated role and reassigned to emergency response work as needed by serving in an emergency within Surveillance/Epidemiology or Clinical Operations groups.
• Other duties as assigned to support overall goals and mission of the department/organization

Physical Requirements:

Ability to travel within the 5 boroughs of New York City to visit clients and providers

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, including or supplemented by twelve semester credits in health education, or in health, social or biological sciences; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, and six months of full-time satisfactory experience in a health promotion or disease…