Sleep Epidemiology Research Assistant

Position: Research Assistant in Epidemiology

PI: Dayna A. Johnson, PhD, MPH, MSW, MS

Sleep Epidemiology Research Group (SERG): SERG is aimed at understanding the root causes of sleep health disparities and their impact on cardiovascular disease. More specifically, our research further explicates the social contributors to racial/ethnic and gender disparities in sleep by quantifying the contribution of social, household-level and neighborhood-level factors with objective and well-validated subjective measures of insufficient sleep using data from epidemiologic cohorts. Our current research aims to understand the determinants of insufficient sleep and sleep disorders as well as the subsequent influence on blood pressure among African Americans. This research integrates social, environmental and sleep epidemiology.

Duties and Responsibilities (these duties are a general summary and not all inclusive):

Assist in all research-related tasks of the Emory Sleep Epidemiology Group including, but not limited to, administer questionnaires, data entry, quantitative and qualitative analyses, literature reviews and manuscript preparation.

This position may involve delivering research equipment to participant homes (using social distancing) in Atlanta, therefore, availability during evenings and weekends as well as transportation is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Masters Student or Doctoral student

· Quantitative analyses experience-experience with SAS and R

· Familiarity with survey data

· Focus group transcription

· Strong verbal and writing skills (writing samples may be requested)

· Experience with literature reviews

· Strong interest in health disparities

· Experience working with health disparity populations

· Experience with GIS or spatial analyses preferred but not required

· Detail-oriented

· Excellent organizational skills and proactive approach

Hours: Approximately 10-20 hours per week

Please contact Dayna Johnson at dayna [dot] johnson [at] emory [dot] edu with any questions relevant to this position.