Senior Public Health Program Lead — Aging & Caregiving

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

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.