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Job Title: Research Assistant August 2021 to June 2022 (flexible) 20+ hours/week; $20/hour
The Illinois Youth Survey (IYS) is a self-report survey administered in schools every other year. Funded by the Illinois Department of Human Services, the IYS is open to all schools in Illinois with 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students. The Center for Prevention Research and Development (CPRD) at the University of Illinois provides support and materials free of cost. The IYS gathers information about a variety of health and social indicators including substance use and perceptions, bullying, school climate, nutrition, and physical activity. Individual school reports are provided to principals through a secure online portal. Aggregated reports (including Chicago community area and county reports) are posted on the IYS website. Each administration includes a stratified random sample of schools, with data reported for four community areas and the state of Illinois, providing rich comparison data that can be used by schools and health professionals. More information can be found on the IYS website: https://iys.cprd.illinois.edu
Position Summary and Responsibilities
The Chicago Public Schools Office of Student Health and Wellness and University of Illinois Center for Prevention Research & Development are seeking a Research Assistant to efficiently and successfully administer the Illinois Youth Survey (IYS) at selected CPS schools. This individual will regularly interact with principals, school staff, department personnel, and research partners. In addition, this individual must possess an understanding of public health research methods and the ability to maintain accurate tracking and labeling systems to ensure data quality.
Primary duties include: Recruiting and communicating with survey administrators at selected schools, liaising with school contacts to schedule survey administration dates/times, tracking and organizing information in spreadsheets, sending regular updates to research partners, and achieving required survey response rate.
Other administrative duties include: preparing forms, assembling packages, managing supplies, attending team meetings, providing consistent updates to team members and external partners.
Qualifications
● Degree in public health, epidemiology, or related field preferred. Current graduate-level students are encouraged to apply.
● Past experience and demonstrated success in survey administration/data collection, including understanding survey administration and reporting protocols. Experience with web-based survey administration is a plus.
● Highly organized and detail-oriented. Able to juggle multiple tasks simultaneously without sacrificing quality or accuracy.
● Ability to meet deadlines.
● Strong oral and written communication skills.
To apply send a resume and cover letter, along with all inquiries concerning this position oshw@cps.edu with the subject line: IYS Research Assistant.
The Evernorth Research Institute (Institute) Summer 2022 Internship program has two (2) open intern positions. Summer interns will directly report to leaders in the Institute, and will be involved in some of the research activities aimed at investigating challenging questions facing healthcare today, supporting the value of services delivered to patients, identify new business opportunities and demonstrate the clinical and financial impact of Evernorth products and services. The summer interns will apply some basic understanding of research methodology (including research design and statistical analysis) to the development and implementation of research projects and serve as collaborators for one or more projects that will provide opportunities to learn new specialized skills and gain exposure to a breadth of expertise in clinical, research, payer and provider solutions teams at Evernorth. Summer interns may assist project leads in various activities such as conceptualizing research questions in conjunction with clinical and operational team members, developing research design and determining appropriate methodology, writing research proposals, completing complex analyses, and interpreting and disseminating results to key audiences in a manner appropriate to each audience. Summer interns should be able to work as part of a research project team and will have the opportunity to work with a cross-functional team within a matrix environment to ensure timely completion of work.
About the Department:
The mission of Evernorth Research Institute is to assist our members, clients and the broader community with empirical evidence fostered through peer-reviewed research alongside innovative and thought provoking reports. Through our research, we support clinical and business decision-making enabling Evernorth to deliver safe and effective healthcare solutions and improving health outcomes.
Essential Functions:
Qualifications:
Schedule: You must be available to work a 40-hour work week for 10-12 weeks summer 2022, beginning May 23, 2022.
This role can work from home from any US location.
One goal of this internship program is to prepare and identify qualified candidates for roles with Cigna post-graduation. Therefore, this temporary internship is open only to individuals who are eligible for employment in the United States and who would not require visa sponsorship now or in the future.
This position is not eligible to be performed in Colorado.
About Evernorth
Evernorth, Cigna Corporation’s health services segment, exists to elevate health for all. We're building on our legacy and redefining health care as we know it. Unbiased in how we think, we create without limitation. We partner without constraints, deliver value differently and act in the interest of humanity. Solving across silos, closing gaps in care, and empowering clients, customers, and people everywhere to move onward and upward. When you work with us, you’ll be empowered to solve the problems others don’t, won’t or can’t. Join us. What difference will you make?Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: SeeYourself@cigna.com for support. Do not email SeeYourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response.
SOPHE has 2 staff positions available for immediate openings in the DC office:
Details for both positions are available here – Career Hub - Society for Public Health Education - SOPHE
Fellowship
The Genesis Health System Administrative Fellowship is an intensive and comprehensive 12-month leadership training program that will fully prepare graduates to be leaders within the healthcare setting. The Administrative Fellow reports directly to the Genesis Health System CEO, meeting regularly for one on one guidance in regard to their projects and navigating the complexity of a health system. The fellow will also work with other senior executives on a variety of key operational, financial and strategic issues/projects.
Fellowship Structure
If students are interested in learning more, Doug Cropper will be hosting an informational webinar September 15, 3:30pm – 4:30pm CDT. Click https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf3OpyHsZxgQt0z8b9QMjxmIj7wsXAzsYPyfVHVTlHTalT2Pg/viewform?usp=sf_link to RSVP.
For additional information please visit our website at: https://www.genesishealth.com/about/administrative-fellowship/and to apply please visit the centralized application portal, NAFCAS.
For further details and to apply: Handshake (joinhandshake.com) The job number is 5240918. If you have any questions, please reach out to Kaitlynn Philbin at kphilbin@luc.edu.
Locations
· 2160 South 1st Avenue, Maywood, Illinois 60153, United States
Compensation: Paid • $21 per hour
Department: Conference Services
Campus: Health Science Campus (Maywood, IL)
Job Summary
Students are responsible for working in the Collection Sites at the Health Science Campus. The Collection Site Assistants work in the collection sites where faculty, students and staff test regularly. Students may monitor buildings and study spaces as COVID19 restrictions change. Students will receive guidance and training in customer service, job responsibility, teamwork, management, leadership skills to support them in their role.
Responsibilities
· Act as a representative of the University at all times, being an example for peers
· Use software to check patients in and scan samples into system
· Maintain proper guidelines in the testing site set forth by SHIELD, including sanitizing and following guidelines of social distancing
· Assist with resolving technical issues within the Collection Site
· Coordinate with supervisors and upper Management to complete tasks
· Provide friendly customer service to patients coming into Collection Site
· Check areas for cleanliness, sanitize surfaces as necessary
· Keep up with all communication from supervisors and staff, completing necessary requirements when given instruction
· Assist with events on campus
· Other duties as assigned
Dr. Asafu-Adjeu is looking for an enthusiastic, hard-working part-time research assistant to help primarily with project management for various sexual health related projects in access to care and implementation research. Ideally, this person would assist with navigating the IRB process for clinical projects administratively and coordinating projects. Applicants must have an interest in implementation research and ideally skills in epidemiology and statistics. Finally, the RA/Coordinator would also be assisting in paper writing and would have co-authorship opportunities (which is great for those thinking of medical school or other graduate training in the future). Stipend negotiable and anticipated weekly time ~10-15 hours depending on project load, etc.
There are four open positions at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health:
Feel free to reach out to Karrie Lukin (lukin@pitt.edu) if you have any questions!
The Colorado School of Public Health is hiring for the position of Enrollment Operations Manager. This position will be housed on their University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
The Enrollment Operations Manager position is a critical part of the Academic & Student Affairs team who works directly with the Director of Student Affairs and Academic Operations. This position will be independently responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing the graduate enrollment management process (recruitment, admission, matriculation, and onboarding of new students) including strategies and activities that optimize enrollments for all of the programs administered through the Colorado School of Public Health.
The Enrollment Operations Manager’s primary responsibility is to lead and oversee the graduate enrollment management (GEM) portfolio. This portfolio includes recruitment, admissions, and onboarding of prospective and new students. The Enrollment Operations Manager will work collaboratively with the OASA team, department chairs and school leadership to oversee and manage the admissions cycle for all programs and degrees in the ColoradoSPH. The position will work with the Director of Student Affairs and Academic Operations and the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs to develop and oversee a yearly recruitment plan with measurable goals, objectives, and recruitment targets and oversee and attend recruitment related events as a representative of the school. This position will create processes and procedures to advise and guide faculty and prospective students, and problem solve on admissions related issues. This position will manage and develop internal and external facing data reports to meet the needs of the Associate Dean for Academic & Student Affairs, school leadership, the department chairs, the school’s partner institutions, and the school accrediting bodies.
In addition, the Enrollment Operations Manager will support and promote co-curricular student activities sponsored by OASA and ColoradoSPH, including Public Health Forum, convocation, etc.
Emory University Rollins School of Public Health’s Office of Admissions and Student Services seeks a Sr. Associate Director of Recruitment and Admissions to develop, evaluate and implement all recruitment and outreach efforts for the masters-level programs of the school.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Public Health Analyst (Policy & Issues Mgmt)
Job ID HHS-CDC-IMP1-21-11176999Date posted 07/27/2021Location Washington D.C., District of Columbia
Each Spring, 30 Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows are selected from applications submitted by students in a diversity of fields, including but not limited to medicine, nursing, dentistry, public health, social work, psychology, pharmacy, physical therapy, law, nutrition, art therapy, dance/movement therapy, and acupuncture.
Program Elements and Requirements: Working in collaboration with an existing local community agency, each Fellow designs and implements a service project that addresses an unmet community health need. Fellowship projects include the following:
Eligibility: Any student who will be enrolled at least part-time in a health-related, graduate-level-degree-granting program during the Fellowship year is welcome to apply. Please note that two exceptions to this are medical and podiatry students who will be entering their third year of medical school. Medical and podiatry students who will be in their first, second, or fourth year during the Fellowship year are eligible.
Deadline: The application deadline for the 2022-23 Fellowship year is February 1st, 2022. Finalists will be interviewed in mid-March, and the Fellows will be announced in early April.
The Public Health Science Department is looking for an enthusiastic and organized Research Assistant I (RAI) to work on a community lifestyle program aimed to improve lifestyle and wellness of families in the Maywood area. The Family Lifestyle Program (FLiP) is grant funded by the Eisenberg Foundation and has been operating for 6 years at a Non-for profit Community based organization, Maywood Fine Arts. Through a collaboration with Nutritionists from the Dominican University, Loyola University Exercise students, Fitness trainers form the Loyola Wellness center and Maywood Fine arts staff; our team is looking to improve health habits and self-management of healthy individuals targeting families, in a low-middle income community.
The Research Assistant’s efforts will primarily be focused on data collection, assisting in the development of study intervention materials, recruitment and retention of participants, program daily operation, and tracking all study documentation and communication. The RA will work with other Program manager, Principal investigator and a variety of stakeholders to accomplish the aims of the projects.
Requirements
Under general supervision, the Research Assistant I may be responsible for some or all of the following:
· Perform specific protocol procedures (specimens and data management, survey/questionnaire administration and the like) required to conduct the study and retain research subjects.
· Will participate in recruitment of participants
· Develops marketing materials for recruiting
· Assists actively in Nutrition demonstrations assisting Nutritionist.
· Assists actively in health fairs at community centers.
· Maintain study databases and project documentation with organization and accuracy.
· Maintain the security and confidentiality of all study materials and data.
· Assist team in the coordination of project-related activities.
· Conduct relevant literature searches and reviews as requested.
· Other project-related or administrative responsibilities as requested by the study team.
Qualifications
· Bachelor's degree in public health, or current student in Master Public Health. Prior experience in public health or community outreach.
· Excellent interpersonal skills, dependable, motivated and willingness to learn new tasks.
· Computer skills, including prior use of Microsoft Office products.
· Ability to relate effectively in-person, virtually and on the telephone to diverse groups of persons, community members, researchers, children and parents.
· Ability to maintain website and engage in social media (i.e. Facebook)
· Excellent organization, communication and problem-solving skills.
· Ability to work evenings and some weekends.
Health Screen required: Vaccination against COVID-19 required
Payment: $20/hr
Application process: Contact Nallely Mora at namora@luc.edu with CV and Cover letter.
