Job Description and Duties This position supports the California Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) mission and strategic plan by improving African American maternal and infant health outcomes. The candidate works under the direction of the Health Program Manager (HPM) II, Chief of the Perinatal Equity (PE) Section. The Health Program Specialist (HPS) II functions as a highly skilled, technical program consultant providing programmatic support to the PE Section’s Black Infant Health (BIH) program by managing a caseload of BIH counties, providing technical assistance to those counties, and assisting with expert technical assistance related to the reduction of health disparities in underserved/under-resourced populations, specifically the African Am