Job Description and Duties This position supports the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) mission and strategic plan by optimizing data and technology by improving collection and reporting of data through the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange (CalREDIE) program, to enhance preparedness and response for emerging public health threats and is used by state and local public health officials and healthcare providers for communicable disease reporting and surveillance. The Research Data Specialist I (RDS I), serves as a Data Team Analyst to ensure laboratories conducting testing for notifiable conditions are electronically reporting test results to public health, with timely and complete reports. Independently collect, manage,