Senior Public Health Specialist

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior Public Health Officer. In this role, you will play a key part in protecting the health of Singaporeans by reducing the burden of disease infections through effective rapid response and outbreak management, surveillance programmes, policymaking, and prevention programmes for the long-term care sector.

You will be working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that requires the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders at the same time. Your main responsibilities will include conducting disease epidemiological investigations, proposing control measures to break the chain of transmission in long-term care facilities, implementing and evaluating control measures, engaging and collaborating with relevant government agencies and stakeholders on policies to control the spread of infectious diseases, preparing epidemiological reports on disease situations, including regular updates, to management, conducting after action reviews when indicated, and being onsite (e.g., MSF homes, senior day care centres, active ageing centres) for outbreak investigations where necessary.

• Assisting in the formulation of evidence-based policies to control the spread of infectious diseases, evaluation of the effectiveness of the current controls and measures in place today, and recommend improvements to disease control strategies based on evolving epidemiology of diseases and analysis of current disease control programmes and international practices for the long-term care sector.
• Engaging and collaborating with the sector lead i.e., MSF and relevant stakeholders in the long-term care sector, to formulate, implement, monitor and review policies and standard operating procedures for control of disease outbreaks.
• Leading disease epidemiological investigations, identify possible sources of transmission, propose control measures to break the chain of transmission, recommend control measures, and assist with communications to sector lead, relevant stakeholders and the public.
• Prepare disease-specific epidemiological situation reports, including regular updates to CDA and MOH Senior Management. Prepare professional inputs, liners, FAQs, and replies for external queries including from media, other government agencies.
• Be the point of contact to stakeholders and their partners for public health matters.
• Providing admin support for meetings, assisting in the preparation of agenda, meeting materials, and note-taking.
• Crisis communication during public health events: Communicate critical information to stakeholders including healthcare providers, the public, and media during disease outbreaks to ensure timely, coordinated, and effective responses while managing rapid and accurate dissemination of information under time pressure.
• Interagency coordination: Regularly coordinate with government agencies, healthcare institutions and internal health bodies to align priorities and approaches, ensuring seamless data exchange and resource sharing.
• Public information and education: Consistently provide the public and external agencies with up-to-date and accurate information about disease prevention and control measures, making complex information understandable and fostering public trust and compliance.

• Tertiary qualification, preferably good honours in a life science discipline; nursing background; or related disciplines e.g., bioengineering, allied health.
• Postgraduate degree in Public Health or Epidemiology or equivalent would be an advantage.
• 2-3 years experience in public health would be an advantage.
• Analytical mindset.
• Ability to work under pressure and simultaneously on different projects.
• Excellent organisational skills and resourcefulness.
• Good inter-personal and communication skills.
• Willing to work beyond office hours, especially during outbreaks.
• Willing to continuously keep up-to-date on new developments in the communicable diseases field.