GRA for Healthcare Associated Infections Research Project, Emory School of Medicine

Role Description

*This position is open to non-REAL students*

This position would be assisting several initiatives linked to Healthcare-Associated Infection Research ongoing including those supported through the Emory Epi-Centers Research Program, Emory Antibiotic Stewardship in Long Term Care (EASIL) program. Specifically, research initiatives that will need support include entry of data submitted from participated nursing homes on antibiotic prescriptions, and potential to prepare analytic reports from these data using R. In addition, some assistance in preparing educational materials for the EASIL initiative for posting on our website. Second ongoing effort will be lead the documentation development for a large dataset on Staphylococcus aureus infections in Georgia. This dataset of about 5,000 observations requires refinement and some data cleaning with appropriate documentation for archiving the dataset and making available on the Emory DataVerse. Opportunities will exist for on-site work in long-term care facilities with enrolling nurses and performing antibody test studies for COVID-10. (e.g., communication skills, cultural competency skills). Some programmatic planning and logistics support will also be included (i.e., management skills). Student will work closely with a research assistant based out of Emory University (at Clifton Road), but currently all remote can be remote.

Duties and Responsibilities 

OutbreakNet Enhanced Foodborne Intern, Georgia DPH

Description

*This opportunity is a REAL, work study position*

The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is the lead agency entrusted by the people of the state of Georgia with the ultimate responsibility for the health of communities and the entire population. Georgia is also an OutbreakNet Enhanced site for foodborne and waterborne disease surveillance. 

DPH is looking for a current MPH student or an incoming MPH-seeking student to assist in patient interviewing, data entry, data collection, data management, medical chart reviews, and other clerical work. The position includes calling cases to conduct interviews related to communicable disease surveillance, special studies, and outbreaks during weekday, weeknight, and weekend hours. Data entry and management will include various databases including Excel, Access, and the Georgia electronic notifiable disease system. Although the person filling this position will have the opportunity to learn about notifiable disease surveillance in general, notifiable enteric disease surveillance conducted by the OutbreakNet Enhanced will be the focus.

How to Apply 

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Graduate Research Assistant, Emory Prevention Research Center

***REAL or Non-REAL Position***

Position Description

The Emory Prevention Research Center (EPRC) seeks a part-time Graduate Research Assistant (15-20 hours/week). The position includes the opportunity to work on both Communications for the EPRC as well as the BreatheEasy Georgia Homes Program (BreatheEasy). BreatheEasy promotes smoke-free housing by recognizing apartment communities in Georgia that adopt smoke-free policies. GRA tasks include developing infographics to communicate EPRC research in plain language for a broad audience and managing social media for the EPRC and BreatheEasy Program, including developing content, scheduling posts, and evaluating analytics. Other Communications tasks include reviewing and assisting with the EPRC website and quarterly newsletter. The GRA will also assist the BreatheEasy program manager in planning and hosting meetings for stakeholders across the state, developing educational content to promote smoke-free housing, and managing the BreatheEasy Recognition Program and website.

Background

The EPRC conducts research and evaluation on chronic disease prevention and promotes evidence-based cancer prevention and control. The research and activities of the EPRC are planned with the participation and input of our community partners, in the spirit of community-based participatory research. Our cancer projects are funded by NCI and the CDC to promote the use of evidence-based cancer prevention practices. Click here for more information about the EPRC. Information about Healthy Homes Healthy Families 2-1-1 is available here.

Minimum Qualifications

Highly motivated, efficient, organized, detail-oriented and interest or experience working on communications, research, evaluation, or cancer prevention and control. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Prior work experience preferred. Experience with social media campaigns and analytics; Clear Communication or Plain Language practices; graphic design; program coordination; website development; and the ability to write in Spanish. Experience with the following software is preferred: Social media platforms and analytics functions (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Hootsuite); Piktochart; Microsoft Office (esp. PowerPoint and Excel); Constant Contact.  

How to apply 

• Send resume and cover letter by email to: Erin Lebow-Skelley, Emory Prevention Research Center at elebows [at] emory [dot] edu

Emerging Infections Program Intern, Georgia DPH

Description 

The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is the lead agency entrusted by the people of the state of Georgia with the ultimate responsibility for the health of communities and the entire population. Georgia is also one of ten Emerging Infections Program sites that participates in enhanced surveillance for foodborne and invasive bacterial infections. 

DPH is looking for a current MPH student or an incoming MPH-seeking student to assist in patient interviewing, data entry, data collection, data management, medical chart reviews, and other clerical work. The position includes calling cases and controls to conduct interviews related to communicable disease surveillance, special studies, and outbreaks during weekday, weeknight, and weekend hours. Data entry and management will include various databases including Excel, Access, and the Georgia electronic notifiable disease system. Although the person filling this position will have the opportunity to learn about notifiable disease surveillance in general, notifiable enteric and invasive bacterial disease surveillance conducted by the Emerging Infections Program will be the focus.

How to Apply 

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Office of Science Intern, CDC

Description 

This position will be Part-Time and the student will telework 100% of the time as CDC currently remains in full-time telework status. The CDC Office of Science (OS), Office of Scientific Integrity (OSI) safeguards the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) science and research activities by protecting the rights and welfare of people who participate in CDC-sponsored research; providing guidance and consultation to safeguard individual privacy and confidentiality; facilitating clearance of CDC-sponsored data collections; and providing leadership, tools, technical assistance, and training related to the various ethical and regulatory obligations that govern CDC scientists’ work. The student will have the opportunity to learn about how CDC promotes quality, integrity, and innovation in science to improve the public’s health.

Duties and Responsibilities

The student will participate in various activities conducted by OS/OSI, including assisting with activities that ensure CDC research and data collections are conducted in ways that are consistent with regulatory obligations and ethical principles, assisting with efforts to evaluate and enhance OS/OSI training activities, and assisting with efforts to build upon and measure progress towards OSI, Office of Science, and CDC strategic priorities. In addition, there will be opportunities for the student to contribute towards developing and improving OS/OSI information collection systems, including systems that track compliance with regulatory requirements and other OSI-related databases.

How to Apply 

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Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Global Safe WASH

Project Summary

The Center for Global Safe Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (CGSW) is seeking Graduate Research Assistants (GRA) with strong data skills to support one of the existing projects: The Accelerating Cholera Prevention, Preparedness, and Control in Kenya through Hotspot Mapping, Genotyping, Exposure Assessment, and WASH+OCV Interventions (AChoPACE) study is aimed at using hot spot mapping to assess exposure to fecal contamination, specifically Vibrio Cholerae in urban informal settlements to design and implement integrated intervention strategies. 

Student Role 

Under the guidance of CGSW faculty and staff, the GRA will assist with database development, monitoring the data collection and data quality, data manipulation and analysis, data visualization, and publications.

Qualifications

• Applicants must have good knowledge of public health, statistics, and computer programming.  
• Skills: intermediate skill in R/SAS and knowledge about ODK/mobile data collection are required.

How to Apply    

Please send your CV and an e-mail describing your interest, background, and availability during Fall 2020 semester to Habib Yakubu (habib [dot] yakubu [at] emory [dot] edu) and Sarah Durry (sarah [dot] elias [dot] durry [at] emory [dot] edu).

Graduate Research Assistant – Data Manager, RSPH

Role Description

The Lopman Lab team conducts research globally and in the United States with research targeted at diarrheal diseases, specifically those caused by rotavirus and norovirus. More recently, this research has also focused on COVID-19. We employ a range of approaches including field studies, statistical analysis, and dynamic mathematical modeling to address public health policy relevant research questions.

We are seeking a Graduate Research Assistant to work on a project examining social mixing patterns that are relevant to transmission of COVID-19 in nursing homes. The project will collect and analyze social mixing patterns of workers in several nursing homes in the Atlanta area in order to better parameterize infectious disease models, and thus evaluate COVID-19 interventions.

The GRA will assist with data collection and management in REDCap. The candidate must reside in the Atlanta area to assist with data collection and the schedule is approximately 20 hours per week.

Qualifications

Student Assistant, CDC

Opportunity Description

The CDC Prion and Public Health Office (within the Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases) is looking for assistance from an MPH (epidemiology) student who has finished the first year of study. This is a part-time, paid position (not work-study) that will include helping with epidemiologic projects through data entry, literature searches, and SAS analysis.

Application Information

Interested students may contact Ryan Maddox at rmaddox [at] cdc [dot] gov for additional information.

Note that the ongoing pandemic will obviously affect the hiring, onboarding, and training process.

Community Engagement & Recruitment Team, Hope Clinic

Opportunity Description

Join the Community Engagement and Recruitment Team at Emory’s Hope Clinic! They are looking for a few candidates to join their team and help recruit for ongoing sexual health clinical trial studies. Duties include recruiting, screening, identifying, and interviewing participants for data collection in clinical research projects. Positions are available for temporary, full- and part-time work.

How to Apply 

• Send your resume and cover letter to hope [dot] community [at] emory [dot] edu!

Research Assistant, EpiModel Research Lab

Lab Description 

The EpiModel Research Lab at Emory, led by Assistant Professor Samuel Jenness in the Department of Epidemiology (http://samueljenness.org/), develops innovative epidemiological methods and software tools (http://epimodel.org/) to investigate infectious disease transmission dynamics. 

Our research areas are at the intersection of mathematical modeling, infectious disease epidemiology, network science, health economics, and computer science. We solve public health problems related to the drivers of transmission of infectious diseases and the optimal strategies for their prevention & control. Our current applied research focus includes both sexually transmitted diseases (HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis) and respiratory infectious diseases (TB, SARS-CoV-2, influenza).

Past EpiModel RAs have used their experiences with our lab to successfully advance to the next stage of their public health careers as PhD doctoral students, CDC fellows, and data analyst staff. EpiModel RAs have also directly grown their CVs by co-authoring scientific articles with lab members that have been published in the top epidemiology and infectious disease journals.

Opportunity Descriptions 

We are currently hiring multiple Research Assistants to support both the technical work and the project management of our research portfolio.

The Scientific RA would perform these duties:

• Software code development and review, including computational optimization techniques for existing code and unit testing new code;
• Literature reviews and summaries related to the research products;
• Analysis, summarization, and writing of results.

The Project Management RA would perform these duties:

• Organization and maintenance of our online repositories for the project, including management of the Github study home and study websites
• Coordination of meetings and work across our study sites at Emory University, University of Washington, University of Minnesota, and Northwestern University
• Editing scientific products, including journal articles, software documentation, and workshop materials.

Both RA positions may be performed entirely through remote work (online).

Application Details 

• Click here to read more about this position and apply on Handshake! 
• Applications for this position will be accepted from students who have qualified for REAL program and those who have not.
  • If you have qualified for REAL, please indicate that in your application cover letter; we will ask for verification of REAL status if we proceed with an interview.
• Please submit a cover letter explaining your interests in the position and a current CV.
  • In your cover letter, you should specify which RA position you are interested in, and detail all experiences or skills specifically related to job duties outlined above.