POLICY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST The Assessment, Policy Development and Evaluation (APDE) unit is a nationally recognized leader in community health assessment. APDE'S primary role is to provide health assessment data and analysis to inform planning, policies, and actions, and develop innovative interventions that improve the health of King County residents. Analysis and elimination of health inequities is central to our work. In partnership with community organizations and agency staff, we use and develop state-of-the-art techniques for the collection and analysis of data, and the development and evaluation of effective policies and population-based interventions. The Policy Research & Development Specialist is responsible for researching and reporting on best practices in public health policy research, development and implementation. The Specialist will identify effective policies from the literature, identify and coordinate cross-cutting policy efforts throughout the department, prioritize policy development, and recommend policy priorities to the department leadership. This position will evaluate policy efforts and implement improvements in policy development. This position will work within the mandate of the Public Health Operational Master Plan (PHOMP) goals for health policy development in the public health domains of Protection, Promotion, and Provision. The most competitive candidates will have a PhD in social or health science (e.g. epidemiology, public policy, medical sociology, or social work) or a closely related field with 3 - 5 years experience researching, planning, and developing health policy as well as writing successful funding proposals and grants. Demonstrated experience prioritizing policy initiatives from myriad policies preferred. The job applications can be found in the Public Health category at: http://agency.governmentjobs.com/kinghealth/default.cfm Samples of APDE reports can be found at: http://www.metrokc.gov/health/reports Gloria E. Albetta, M.P.H. Assessment, Policy Development & Evaluation (APDE) Public Health - Seattle & King County 401 5th Avenue Seattle, WA 98104-2333 Phone: (206) 263-8683 Fax: (206) 296-0166 [log in to unmask] . ------------------- Problems/Questions? Send it to Listserv owner: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe, send the following message in the text section -- NOT the subject header -- to [log in to unmask] SIGNOFF SDOH DO NOT SEND IT BY HITTING THE REPLY BUTTON. THIS SENDS THE MESSAGE TO THE ENTIRE LISTSERV AND STILL DOES NOT REMOVE YOU. To subscribe to the SDOH list, send the following message to [log in to unmask] in the text section, NOT in the subject header. SUBSCRIBE SDOH yourfirstname yourlastname To post a message to all 1200+ subscribers, send it to [log in to unmask] Include in the Subject, its content, and location and date, if relevant. For a list of SDOH members, send a request to [log in to unmask] To receive messages only once a day, send the following message to [log in to unmask] SET SDOH DIGEST To view the SDOH archives, go to: https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/sdoh.html