Health Educator, Baylor College of Medicine

The Health Educator will work to support the expansion of the CPRIT Lung Cancer Screening and Tobacco Cessation Program, which is a clinical services, sponsored program awarded to the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The Health Educator will work independently as well as part of the program team to provide tobacco cessation and lung cancer screening education and navigation to achieve the overarching goal of providing lung cancer screening and tobacco cessation awareness and education in the target populations in Harris and surrounding rural counties.

The ideal candidate should have experience working with targeted populations and an in-depth knowledge of the barriers that affect clinical services. The ideal candidate should also be willing to participate in training. Specifically, this position will require the health educator to educate on tobacco cessation and will be required to participate in and pass the one week tobacco treatment specialist training at MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) (funded through the grant).

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