PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM ASSOCIATE - ROLLINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

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Description :

The goal of our Emory CPCRN local research will increase the understanding of lung cancer screening (LCS) interventions and evaluate a bundle of implementation strategies to promote LCS among primary healthcare centers in rural, southwest (SW) Georgia.

Every year, 234,589 new cases of lung cancer are diagnosed in the United States. The survival rate for lung cancer is higher with early diagnosis, with 68-92% of people surviving for more than 5 years.

Lung cancer screening can detect lung cancer and the most common method is low-dose computed tomography (LDCT); however, national studies have found low uptake with only 3-5% of smokers or former smokers being screened.

In the State of Lung Cancer 2034 report, in Georgia, 3.8% of those at high risk were screened (ranking 32 of 50 states), which was significantly lower than the national rate of 4.

5. Implementation research is critical to improve our understanding of how we can accelerate the adoption and implementation of lung cancer screening (LCS) interventions.

The Emory CPCRN has aims related to collaboration with other CPCRN centers to advance the mission of the CPCRN and the research aims involve conducting a scoping review of lung cancer screening tools to measure eligibility for lung cancer screening and a systematic review of interventions to promote lung cancer screening in the United States to inform intervention development, conducting a pilot trial and implementing a lung cancer screening trial in primary care clinics in southwest Georgia.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Under limited supervision, uses a basic knowledge of public health principles to analyze, develop, implement, and promote new and creative strategies and solutions to address public health issues and challenges.
• Addresses public health issues by providing education, technical assistance, advocacy, public awareness, and research.
• Works with programs or studies designed to evaluate the prevalence or surveillance of public health issues and the effectiveness of targeted interventions.
• May provide technical assistance to organizations to include presentations, web-based resources, strategies, and educational forums to address specific public health issues.
• May work with clinical study sites on patient recruitment and data collection standards. Assists with data collection and data analysis.
• Contributes to proposals, protocols, data analysis plans, reports, manuscripts, and presentation of study findings.
• May assist in designing, developing, and conducting targeted training initiatives.
• May collaborate with external organizations to develop action plans and goals to achieve specific objectives.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS :

A master's degree in Public Health, a master of science degree in Public Health or Health Education, OR a master's degree in Development Practice OR a master's degree in another field and one year of public health experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS :

• Experience with public health and cancer prevention and control research
• Qualitative and quantitative evaluation experience
• Conducting systematic reviews, writing manuscripts and qualitative and quantitative data analyses
• Coordinating research project with meeting agendas, updating timelines and coordinating team meetings
• Managing teams and / or students for research projects

NOTE : This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to commute to Emory University on a flexible weekly schedule based upon business needs.

Schedule is based on agreed upon guidelines of department. This role requires residency in the state of GA. Emory reserves the right to change remote work status with notice to employee.

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