This is administrative medical and public health work directing the development of long-range and short-term strategic plans for the promotion of good health. Work includes the implementation and coordination of departmental efforts to enhance healthy behaviors. The employee in this class directs, through subordinate administrative and medical personnel, the resource development, program direction, disease prevention and injury risk reduction activities of the Health Department. The employee is responsible for providing medical advice on matters of public health to the Commissioner and the department's executive staff and formulating evaluation criteria for health promotion campaigns. Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with departmental staff and representatives of professional societies, health agencies at the local, state and federal level, community-based organizations and coalitions, local academic medical centers and the public are major aspects of the work. The employee reports to the Health Commissioner.

ALLOCATING FACTORS: (The following conditions must be met for a position to be approved for this class.)

• The employee must direct through subordinate medical and administrative personnel the resource development, program direction, disease prevention and risk reduction activities of the Health Promotion Office.
• The position must be located in the Health Department.

• Directs, through subordinate medical personnel, and in collaboration with departmental administrators, the health promotion activities of the Health Department; provides medical direction to physicians and executive staff on matters pertaining to health promotion and disease prevention; oversees the development and evaluation of standard medical care throughout the department; provides medical advice to the Health Commissioner.
• Directs, through subordinate administrative program personnel, the coordination of existing and the development of new long - and short-range plans, goals and objectives for comprehensive municipal health services programs; establishes project goals, objectives and time parameters; coordinates activities of designated projects to insure that goals and specified objectives are met in accordance with prescribed priorities, deadlines and funding conditions; prepares project status reports; plans and develops communications and informational materials to keep the public aware of health promotion programs.
• Directs, through a subordinate administrator, securing the resources to fund program efforts; coordinates funding efforts with federal, state and private funding sources; prepares grant proposals; monitors expenditures for conformance to grant stipulations and contract requirements.
• Directs, through subordinate administrator, the department's injury risk reduction program efforts; analyzes risk surveillance results to identify areas requiring intervention; develops protocol and methodology required for studies; coordinates the activities of prevention project personnel.
• Develops recommendations for health promotion programs designed to integrate medical aspects of community, environmental and forensic health services within the department and other governmental and private agencies to achieve public health and community goals; provides medical advice to the Commissioner and physicians concerning departmental strategies to improve the health status of Philadelphia's population with emphasis on health-enhancing behaviors; promotes community health awareness.
• Advises the Health Commissioner on policy and legislative activities regarding health promotion; consults with senior departmental medical staff to devise strategies to initiate or respond to legislative activities on health promotion issues; meets with other governmental or private agency administrators or medical staff to coordinate efforts in regard to health promotion issues; insures coordinated health promotion efforts through dissemination of materials and unified promotional efforts through the departmental public information office, in conjunction with community-based organizations and neighborhood groups.
• Promotes community interest in the utilization of public health services; speaks before lay and professional groups; responds to concerns of community regarding existing health conditions requiring remedy; represents the Health Commissioner at meetings with other city agencies, professional groups and the public; establishes and maintains cooperative relationships with health agencies and hospitals to achieve coordinated health service goals.
• Performs related work as required.

KNOWLEDGE OF:

• the principles, practices, goals and programs of health services and public health administration.
• the general principles of epidemiology as they apply to the control of communicable and non-communicable diseases.
• the principles, practices, developments and techniques of public health medical services.
• the principles, practices, and current developments of general medicine as it applies to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
• public health medical research, especially as it relates to the control of disease.
• the rules and regulations of federal and state funding of public health programs.
• the principles, practices, and goals of public health administration.
• medical jurisprudence, including public health law.
• the social, economic and environmental factors affecting health habits and the behavior modification principles designed to promote good health.
• the principles, practices and techniques of statistics as applied to medical research and public health.
• current developments in health research as it relates to medical matters of public health interest.

• evaluate scientific data in order to develop and implement a rational public health policy, and medical policy and practices.
• Assess the health care requirements of a large and demographically varied urban population.
• stimulate interest and establish confidence in the public health services program.
• enlist the cooperation of community agencies and the public, and establish effective working relationships with city officials, members of professional and lay organizations, and the public.
• coordinate the activities of the division with other departmental and community health programs.
• present ideas effectively, both orally and in writing.
• interpret and implement federal and state-funded programs.
• plan, organize and direct a comprehensive health program which encompasses the promotion of health-enhancing behaviors and disease prevention.
• establish and maintain effective working relationships with physicians, hospital officials, representatives of federal, state and local health agencies, and the general public.

EDUCATION

• Graduation from an accredited school of medicine with a degree of Doctor of Medicine or Osteopathy and completion of an internship in an approved hospital.

AND

• Possession of a certificate in Internal Medicine, Family Practice or Pediatrics as issued by the appropriate board of specialization.

• Completion of all current formal requirements necessary to be accepted for the initial examination for certification by the American Pediatrics, Family Practice, or Internal Medicine specialty boards, and completion of a master's degree program from an accredited school of public health.

• Four years of experience in the practice of medicine beyond what is required to meet the certification requirements described above.

• Five years of experience in the practice of medicine which has involved medical supervision of multiple public health programs.

PHYSICAL AND MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to physically perform the duties and to work in the environmental conditions required of a position in this class.

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS, AND/OR CERTIFICATES

• Possession of a valid license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania issued by the State Board of Medical Education and Licensure.

PAY RANGE: EP33
Class Established:
  CSC - 7/1991 ; Ad Board - 10/1991

Latest Spec. Revision:
  CSC - 4/1992 ; Ad Board - 5/1992

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