The Public Health Biologist series describes professional work concerned with vector-borne disease prevention, epidemiological investigation of disease reservoirs, disease surveillance, technological transmission studies, laboratory diagnosis and support, public educational efforts, training and certifying government agency vector control technicians, coordinating and conducting emergency vector control, as required, and consultation with local agencies in planning, standard setting, and ordinance promulgation in vector control. Incumbents in Public Health Biologist positions apply scientific methods, principles, and experience in medical entomology, zoology, parasitology, toxicology, or other related areas specializing in the epidemiology, ecology, and prevention of vector-borne diseases. This is the entry and first journey level of the series. This is the full journey level of the series. This is the technical expert level of the series.
Incumbents have technical expertise in one or more vector-borne speciality areas.
This is the first level supervisor of the series. Supervisory and administrative responsibilities include selection and assignment of staff, evaluation of employee performance, participation in budget preparation, operational planning and the prioritization and allocation of resources, and may serve in an acting capacity for the section chief in their absence. Three years of experience in public health biology, one of which must have been in vector biology and control in a health agency or other related private industry. I Two years of experience in the California state service performing the duties of Associate Public Health Biologist. Or II Five years of increasingly responsible experience in vector biology and control, two of the required years of experience must have been in a position comparable to that of Associate Public Health Biologist in the California state service.