Established in 1805, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (the NYC Health Department) is the oldest and largest health department in the country. Our mission is to
protect and improve the health of all New Yorkers, in service of a vision of a city in which all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential, regardless of who they are, how old they are, where they are from, or where they live.
As a world-renowned public health agency with a history of building transformative public health programming and infrastructure, innovating in science and scholarship to advance public health knowledge, and responding to urgent public health crises — from New York City’s yellow fever outbreak in 1822, to the COVID-19 pandemic — we are a hub for public health innovation, expertise, and programs, and services. We serve as the population health strategist, and policy, and planning authority for the City of New York, while also having a vast impact on national and international public policy, including programs and services focused on food and nutrition, anti-tobacco support, chronic disease prevention, HIV/AIDS treatment, family and child health, environmental health, mental health, and racial and social justice work, among others.
Our Agency’s five strategic priorities, building off a recently-completed strategic planning process emerging from the COVID-19 emergency, are:
1) To re-envision how the Health Department prepares for and responds to health
emergencies, with a focus on building a “response-ready” organization, with faster
decision-making, transparent public communications, and stronger surveillance and
bridges to healthcare systems
2) Address and prevent chronic and diet-related disease, including addressing rising rates of
childhood obesity and the impact of diabetes, and transforming our food systems to
improve nutrition and enhance access to healthy foods
3) Address the second pandemic of mental illness including: reducing overdose deaths,
strengthening our youth mental health systems, and supporting people with serious
mental illness
4) Reduce black maternal mortality and make New York a model city for women’s health
5) Mobilize against and combat the health impacts of climate change
Our 7,000-plus team members bring extraordinary diversity to the work of public health. True to our value of equity as a foundational element of all of our work, and a critical foundation to
achieving population health impact in New York City, the NYC Health Department has been a leader in recognizing and dismantling racism’s impacts on the health of New Yorkers and
beyond. In 2021, the NYC Board of Health declared racism as a public health crisis. With commitment to advance anti-racist public health practices that dismantle systems that perpetuate
inequitable power, opportunity and access, the NYC Health Department continues to work in and with communities and community organizations to increase their access to health services and
decrease avoidable health outcomes.
Program and Job Description:
The Bureau of Public Health Clinics-Sexually Transmitted Infections has the mission of improving the sexual health of all New Yorkers. To achieve this the Bureau provides direct clinic services to people seeking sexual health care, and services to sex partners; monitors disease trends; provides education and training to providers and community groups, conducts research and develop policies to improve sexual health and wellness. The Bureau of Public Health Clinics-Sexually Transmitted Infections operates 8 Sexual Health clinics throughout New York City (NYC).
DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
Staff to be cross trained to perform clerical duties to aide in registration. Documenting intake information collected at triage in the Electronic Medical record.
Prepare examination room for vaccine administration.
Processes specimens for pick-up for infections related to STI, Monkey Pox for routing to the appropriate area.