Senior Public Health Program Associate

Jobtailor; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Emory University is seeking a research professional to coordinate aging and caregiving studies, including intervention development, data collection, analysis, and dissemination. The role emphasizes multi-site collaboration and strong scientific writing.

Responsibilities include environmental scans, focus groups, recruitment, evaluation, and training development, with potential site coordination and technical assistance.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Public Health or related field with relevant applied public health experience.
• Quantitative and analytic skills including survey programming and statistical analysis of large cohort study datasets.
• Experience with aging, caregiving, or elder abuse research.
• Strong scientific writing and ability to meet authorship thresholds for peer-reviewed publications.
• Experience coordinating multi-site or community-partnered research.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support a portfolio of aging and caregiving research.
• Direct intergenerational caregiving intervention trial addressing mental health, social isolation, and loneliness.
• Coordinate project activities including environmental scans, focus groups, intervention development, recruitment, delivery, evaluation, and dissemination.
• Collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data.
• Prepare proposals, protocols, data analysis plans, reports, manuscripts, and presentations of study findings.
• Provide education, technical assistance, advocacy, public awareness, and research addressing public health issues.
• Work on studies evaluating public health issue prevalence, surveillance, and targeted intervention effectiveness.
• Coordinate clinical study sites to ensure patient recruitment and data collection compliance.
• Provide technical assistance through presentations, websites, strategies, and educational forums.
• Design, develop, and conduct targeted training initiatives.
• Collaborate with external organizations to develop action plans and goals.
• Identify new potential projects, studies, or partners.
• Review literature, extract data, support Delphi processes, and recommend common caregiver research measures.
• Perform related responsibilities as required.

Skills

Data Analysis

Survey Programming

Statistical Analysis

Qualitative Data Collection

Quantitative Data Collection

Intervention Development

Project Coordination

Proposal Preparation

Report Writing

Training Development

Education

Master's degree in Public Health

Master of Science in Public Health or Health Education

Master's in Development Practice (and 3 years public health experience)

Master's in another field (and 4 years public health experience)

Tools

Statistical Software

Job description

• Coordinate and support a portfolio of aging and caregiving research


• Direct an intergenerational caregiving intervention trial addressing mental health, social isolation, and loneliness among caregiving youth and older adults


• Coordinate project activities including environmental scans, focus groups, intervention development, recruitment, delivery, evaluation, and dissemination


• Collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data


• Prepare proposals, protocols, data analysis plans, reports, manuscripts, and presentations of study findings


• Provide education, technical assistance, advocacy, public awareness, and research addressing public health issues


• Work on studies evaluating public health issue prevalence, surveillance, and targeted intervention effectiveness


• Potentially coordinate clinical study sites to ensure patient recruitment and data collection compliance


• Potentially provide technical assistance through presentations, websites, strategies, and educational forums


• Design, develop, and conduct targeted training initiatives


• Collaborate with external organizations to develop action plans and goals


• Identify new potential projects, studies, or partners


• Review literature, extract data, support Delphi processes, and recommend common caregiver research measures on potential assignments


• Perform related responsibilities as required

Requirements

• Master's degree in Public Health, Master of Science degree in Public Health or Health Education, or master's degree in Development Practice and three years of relevant applied public health experience


• Alternatively, master's degree in another field and four years of public health experience


• Quantitative and analytic skills sufficient to serve in an analyst capacity, including survey programming and statistical analysis of large cohort study datasets


• Experience with aging, caregiving, or elder abuse research


• Strong scientific writing and ability to meet authorship thresholds for peer-reviewed publications


• Experience coordinating multi-site or community-partnered research


• Must reside in the state of Georgia


• Must be able to commute to Emory University on a flexible weekly schedule based upon business needs

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in public health research, particularly in aging and caregiving, with strong quantitative and analytic skills for data analysis and survey programming. Proven ability to coordinate multi-site studies and produce high-quality scientific writing for peer-reviewed publications.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Master's Degree In Public Health


• Quantitative And Analytic Skills


• Experience With Aging And Caregiving Research


• Scientific Writing For Peer-Reviewed Publications


• Experience Coordinating Multi-Site Research

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Data Analysis


• Survey Programming


• Statistical Analysis


• Qualitative Data Collection


• Quantitative Data Collection


• Intervention Development


• Project Coordination


• Proposal Preparation


• Report Writing


• Training Development

Soft Skills

• Collaboration


• Communication


• Advocacy


• Education


• Technical Assistance

Industry Keywords

• Public Health


• Caregiving


• Aging Research


• Elder Abuse Research


• Community-Partnered Research


• Environmental Scans


• Focus Groups


• Intervention Effectiveness


• Patient Recruitment


• Data Collection Compliance