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Assistant Scientist
Description
The Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is recruiting a non-tenure track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Scientist.
The successful applicant will support an innovative community-partnered, highly applied research portfolio addressing case management, service coordination, and/or workforce development in US domestic maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting programs and/or closely related services and systems that serve families with children. A doctoral degree in public health, psychology, social work, or related field is required. Applicants should have applied health or social services research experience and excellent writing skills, as evidenced by scientific publications and increasing recognition in their field of interest. The applicant will collaborate with Department Faculty and interface with multiple research and community partners to develop and implement research activities, collaborate on manuscripts and other dissemination products for diverse audiences, and collaborate on grant applications to extend this work. They will be expected to lead analyses and develop manuscripts as a lead or supporting author. The successful applicant, consistent with the mission of the Department, will support and extend extramurally funded research, participate in the department’s graduate education and student mentoring activities, and contribute to the life of the School and the University.
Qualifications
PFRH is one of 10 academic departments at the Bloomberg School which is home to more than 870 full-time faculty and 3,600 graduate-level students. The School has been ranked the #1 school of public health by U.S. News & World Report since rankings began in 1994. The main campus is in East Baltimore. Both the East Baltimore campus and the broader University, including a campus in Washington DC, support a collaborative and highly interactive environment with a superb research and practice infrastructure. The faculty is multi-disciplinary and has a broad and diverse research, practice and teaching portfolio. Faculty research spans domestic and global settings, and ranges from foundational to highly applied research, translation and implementation work in collaboration with national, state and local partners.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health strives to improve the health and health equity of communities by advancing public health education, scholarship, and practice and is firmly committed to a school that embraces scholarship, critical thinking, innovation and scientific rigor and cultivates a diverse, inclusive, and nurturing environment for all students, faculty and staff. Only by uplifting these principles and promoting a culture of belonging can we deliver on our goal of protecting health and saving lives and drive excellence in all we do.
Application Instructions
Applications should include: 1) curriculum vitae; 2) Cover letter; 3) statement of interest (1-2 pages) that includes why they are attracted to this position, what attributes and experiences make them a competitive candidate, and how their past record, current actions, and future plans will contribute to the mission and values of the BSPH as stated at https://publichealth.jhu.edu/about/at-a-glance/mission-vision-and-values
Review of candidates will begin in August 2024. Please direct all questions to Professor Allison West, awest25@jhu.edu.
Research Data Analyst
The Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health is seeking a Research Data Analyst.
Our Team
For over twenty-five years, our team has conducted high quality, utilization focused evaluation, research, and quality improvement work across the United States focused on various prenatal, early childhood and child welfare interventions.
Our Collaborators
For more than ten years, our team has collaborated with leaders in New Jersey’s Department of Health and Department of Children and Families on research, evaluation and continuous quality improvement. By collaborating across state departments and creatively leveraging federal and state funding, New Jersey has created a unique, progressive early childhood system of care. NJ’s system features a statewide central intake system (Connecting NJ) for at-risk pregnant and parenting people which links eligible families interested in services to a variety of resources in their communities. With sophisticated data systems and a well-developed infrastructure for collaborating with parents and families, New Jersey is a national leader in the early childhood space.
New Jersey recently began implementing Family Connects NJ, a brief, universal newborn home visiting program in which parents can receive home visits by a trained nurse in the first several weeks following the child’s birth. Participation in Family Connects NJ is free, voluntary, and available to all new parents regardless of background or income. The program is currently operating in five counties and plans to expand to additional counties over the coming years.
Our Research Data Analyst Position
The Research Data Analyst will be responsible for data management, manipulation and analysis, as well as quality control of project databases and documentation of data analysis activities. The Research Data Analyst will primarily analyze Family Connects NJ program data and may contribute to cleaning and analyzing data from New Jersey’s early childhood home visiting programs and the state’s central intake system (Connecting NJ).
We are looking for an analytically gifted individual who will support our team in carrying out research, evaluation and quality improvement work to support the implementation of Family Connects NJ. The ideal candidate for the position is a self-motivated, responsible, detail-oriented individual with excellent organizational abilities. Applicants must be able to work independently in a self-directed fashion while managing multiple tasks.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities
Data management
- Work with large administrative datasets (with 1000+ observations) to clean, restructure, and merge data sets, create new variables, and conduct data quality checks. This could involve writing new code or updating existing code in R.
- Compile monthly data from multiple secondary data sources to produce routine reports on program implementation for each community and at the state-level.
- Create and maintain documentation about datasets, e.g. data dictionaries or flowcharts.
- Ensure that data files are organized and up to date.
- Identify and propose solutions to systematic issues with data.
- Collaborate with research team to resolve data issues.
Data analysis
- Use R to code for and run descriptive statistics on cross-sectional administrative data and conduct basic statistical analyses.
- Create analysis-ready datasets for members of the research team.
Communication
- Interpret, summarize and present analyses in various formats including raw output, tables, graphs, and oral and written reports. This could include internal presentations as well as presentations to external partners.
- Contribute to writing, reviewing, and referencing for reports, presentations, publications, and grant proposals.
- Communicate effectively with the team and proactively bring questions and concerns to the team.
Other
- Contribute to internal review board applications and renewals.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant data security and compliance protocols.
- Perform other evaluation and continuous quality improvement-related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in related discipline.
- Three years related experience.
- Additional education may substitute for required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in related discipline preferred.
- Relevant disciplines include public health, public policy, epidemiology, biostatistics, economics or similar discipline.
Special Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Candidate must be detail-oriented and have outstanding organizational skills.
- This position requires strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Proficiency in R and Excel required.
- Proficiency in an additional software package (SAS, Stata or SPSS) is desirable, but not required.
- Candidates must be skilled in analysis and interpretation of secondary data and dissemination of results through written and oral communications.
- Candidates must be able to work independently as well as communicate and collaborate effectively in a team environment.
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH) is pleased to announce a postdoctoral fellowship in child and family health services with a focus on case management, service coordination, and workforce development in the context of early childhood home visiting programs. The postdoctoral fellow will work primarily with two HRSA-funded projects, the Jackie Walorski Center for Evidence-Based Case Management and the Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative (HARC). The goal of the Center is to identify, evaluate, and disseminate evidence-based case management practices and strategies within the maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting context. HARC is a national research and development platform for innovation to broaden and strengthen home visiting's benefits for all families and communities. The projects collaborate with numerous academic and research partners.
The fellow will contribute to community-engaged research that includes but is not limited to literature reviews, research study design and implementation, data analysis, and dissemination. Opportunities also exist in this role to collaborate on papers from other studies focused on home visiting implementation and workforce development. The fellowship is for a 12-month period, with the potential option to renew for additional years, contingent on funding. The fellow will report to Dr. Allison West and will be part of a vibrant department and university with a multitude of opportunities for collaboration and professional development.
Required Qualifications:
- Doctoral degree in prevention science, public health, social work, psychology, nursing, or a closely related discipline by the time of the appointment
- Demonstrated record of applied health or social services research in the U.S. context
- Proficiency in quantitative and qualitative data management, analysis, and presentation skills including ability to use statistical packages
- Excellent writing skills, as evidenced by publications, grant‐writing experience, and/or personal references
- Excellent critical thinking, oral communication, and community engagement skills
- Strong interest in applied health services research, community-engaged research, home visiting, and family- and early childhood systems
Preferred Qualifications:
The preferred candidate will have previous prevention research experience in the U.S. context in areas such as early childhood home visiting, early childhood systems, case management, service coordination, trauma-informed care, and/or health equity.
Instructions for Applying:
Interested applicants should submit the following to Dr. West at awest25@jhu.edu:
- Cover letter describing research interests, career goals, and prior experience
- Curriculum vitae
- Contact information of 3 references
Each application will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- Fit of research interests and experience
- How the postdoctoral fellowship will help to further the scholar’s research agenda
- Demonstrated record of increasing responsibility in research roles
We particularly welcome applications from individuals with lived experience related to the topics of interest and from members of groups historically under-represented in health and social services research. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, starting immediately. The ideal applicant would begin the fellowship in fall of 2024. The post offers a stipend and benefits commensurate with experience and qualifications, as well as opportunities for career development and independent work streams. The current minimum stipend level for BSPH postdoctoral scholars is $62,132.