Senior Public Health Program Associate - Rollins School of Public Health

Emory University•Atlanta, GA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Department of Epidemiology at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health seeks a Public Health Program Asc, Sr to coordinate and support a portfolio of aging and caregiving research. The primary assignment is to direct an intergenerational caregiving intervention trial, which addresses mental health, social isolation, and loneliness among caregiving youth and older adults. Depending on skills and effort needs, the position may be split across a second project topics such as elder abuse, family caregivers who are older/grandfamily/kinship caregivers, or neighborhoods and cognitive aging. The role combines project coordination, qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, and scientific writing, with opportunities for lead or co-authorship.

Requirements

A master's degree in Public Health, a master of science degree in Public Health or Health Education, or a master's degree in Development Practice and three years of relevant applied public health experience OR a master's degree in another field and four years of public health experience.

Nice To Haves

Quantitative and analytic skills sufficient to serve in an analyst capacity, including survey programming and statistical analysis of large cohort study datasets.
Experience with aging, caregiving, or elder abuse research.
Strong scientific writing and the ability to meet authorship thresholds for peer-reviewed publications.
Experience coordinating multi-site or community-partnered research.

Responsibilities

Independently uses a specialized knowledge of, and experience, with public health principles to analyze, develop, implement, and promote solutions to public health issues/problems.
Collects and analyzes data.
Prepares proposals, protocols, data analysis plans, reports, manuscripts, and presentation of study findings.
Addresses public health issues by providing education, technical assistance, advocacy, public awareness, and research.
Works with programs or studies designed to evaluate the prevalence or surveillance of public health issues and the effectiveness of targeted interventions.
May coordinate clinical study sites to ensure compliance with patient recruitment and data collection standards.
May provide technical assistance to organizations to include presentations, websites, strategies, and educational forums to address specific public health issues.
May design, develop, and conduct targeted training initiatives.
May collaborate with external organizations to develop action plans and goals to achieve specific objectives.
Identifies new potential projects, studies or partners.
Performs related responsibilities as required.