Research Associate, Clinical Research, Research Scientist

OHSU Occupational Health is an integrated clinical service dedicated to the health, safety, and occupational fitness of Oregon Health & Science University's workforce, including employees, trainees, and visiting scholars. The department delivers comprehensive workplace health services, including medical clearances, routine health assessments, immunizations, and exposure evaluations. In addition to its clinical operations, OHSU Occupational Health functions as a robust clinical research site.

Over the past five years, the department has facilitated 21 clinical studies and enrolled over 4,000 participants, focusing on infectious diseases, vaccinology, immune responses, and biomarker evaluation.

The appointee shall provide services in furtherance of the university’s missions and goals of teaching, research, patient care, outreach and public service. This occupational health work involves epidemiological research, intervention techniques, experimental designs, and analysis methods to investigate human disease, preventive methods, and treatments. Projects include multi-site human trials, as well as smaller pre/post-test pilot studies.

This position requires the appointee to perform work of complex difficulty. Duties include providing expertise in the design, management, and evaluation of study protocols, methodologies, and Standard Operating Procedures. The appointee will also be responsible for implementing health status questionnaires, along with sample and assay processing, data collection, and data analysis. The Research Associate will also communicate research findings to health practitioners, policy makers, and the public, and write grant applications and articles for publication in professional journals.

The appointee will work directly under a Prinicipal Investigator (PI), but they will also be required to make decisions independently in support of research goals and grant commitments. The appointee will provide functional guidance for operations and staff, serve as a mentor to junior staff, provide daily supervision of research staff in routine procedures, assume responsibility for specific components of research projects and seek advice as necessary.

The successful candidate will hold a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a related biological science (Master’s, PhD, MD or equivalent health sciences degree preferred), have strong organizational, time-management, and writing skills, a professional and personable communication style, and an ability to work as part of a team within the collegial atmosphere of Occupational Health. All interaction with human subjects is strictly related to the research and does not involve medical diagnosis or treatment.

• Study Design & Protocol Evaluation
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  Plan and direct studies to investigate human disease, preventive methods, and treatments. Provide expertise in the design, management, and evaluation of study protocols, health status questionnaires, sample selection, and analysis. Manage the evaluation, selection, and application for new studies, including capacity assessment and site coordination.
• Study procedures
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  Oversee and perform as necessary all steps involved in recruitment of study subjects; screen and schedule research subject visits, obtain consent, research services; conduct study visits in collaboration with investigator and other study staff; perform blood draws, process and ship samples; complete study procedures and tests per protocol; coordinate hospital services as required by study protocol, perform timely and accurate completion of all required case report forms and responses to sponsor queries.
• Data Analysis & Tracking
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  Oversee and perform recording, storage, cleaning, and management of…