Clinical Research Assistant I
About The Position
Our team’s research is dedicated to understanding and improving the access, affordability, and value of ambulatory care in the US. Topics include primary care payment, delivery, and policy innovation; telemedicine; burdens of care faced by older adults; low-value care and its downstream consequences; and physician gender equity (See here for an overview). We are looking for a full-time Research Assistant (RA) (40 hours/week, hybrid/remote with flexible hours) to help us with this work. The Research Assistant II (RA II) will work closely with Dr. Ganguli and her team, which includes collaborators at a range of institutions such as Brown School of Public Health, the Harvard School of Public Health, RAND, and Oregon Health & Science University. The RA will participate in research and other publications as a co-author, present research, and be mentored by Dr. Ganguli and the team. The RA will also have opportunities to assist Dr. Ganguli in writing articles for newspapers and other media outlets, and to interface with her work on national primary care policy. In affiliation with the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care (DGIM), the RA II will have numerous opportunities for training and career development, for example by attending conferences and participating in division-wide RA activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree, ideally with planned or current enrollment in health policy, health professional, or public health graduate school.
- An interest in health care and health care policy, ideally with plans to go into health services or health policy research.
- Experience with MS Office applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience with programming software (STATA, R)
- Data visualization
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Exceptional organizational skills
- Ability to think critically, work independently, and meet deadlines
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with research citation managers such as Zotero preferred
Responsibilities
- Help to prepare Institutional Review Board (IRB) review documents
- Manage projects and workflows (schedule conference calls and meetings, prepare agendas and pre/post-meeting materials; keep various study teams on weekly, monthly, and yearly schedules)
- Conduct literature reviews and manage citations with Zotero
- Use Excel to collect, construct, clean, and link data sets and perform descriptive analyses
- Learn and apply statistical methods such as linear regression, matching, and quasi-experimental designs using statistical software such as STATA or R
- Prepare PowerPoint presentations, posters, figures, tables, and other data visualizations (creativity encouraged!)
- Assist in writing and formatting research manuscripts for publication
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
