Under direction of the Communicable Disease Service, and as part of a statewide rapid response team, assists local health departments with investigation and contact tracing activities in response to COVID-19 and other infectious diseases in hotspot areas. Establishes, and maintains cooperative working relationships with county/local health department personnel involved in COVID-19 investigation and contact tracing. Assists local health department to provide training to temporary contract tracers. Collects COVID-19 and other infectious disease investigation and contact tracing data, enters it into appropriate data management system, and ensures data quality. Confers with physicians, patients, disease contacts, social workers, and others when preparing case and contact investigations, sum