Research Analyst

FCM-Fam Med-Core-CSDH

Full Time

87928

Job Summary

The Research Analyst II will provide survey development, statistical analysis, and other research and administrative support to the research team of the Maternal Infant Health Assessment (MIHA), an annual population-based survey of people with a recent live birth funded by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Maternal Child Adolescent Health Division (MCAH). This position involves supporting the annual development, testing, and finalization of MIHA survey instruments and other study documents.

It requires critically reviewing and summarizing a wide range of published literature, policy recommendations, and other documents related to maternal and child health. The candidate will support day-to-day operations of MIHA as needed (e.g., helping lead parts of team meetings, utilizing project management software, tracking deliverables, maintaining websites). Additionally, the candidate will contribute to the technical aspects of survey design, data collection, and data set production, as needed.

With support of higher-level analysts, the candidate will conduct SAS statistical analyses of MIHA data focusing on maternal characteristics, health services utilization, maternal and infant health outcomes, and racial and social inequities and summarize results from analyses into data tables, graphs, figures, and presentations. They will support production of issue briefs, written reports, and manuscripts. With supervision from the Project Director and input from the Principal Investigator and Data Manager, the Research Analyst will help implement social media strategies to disseminate MIHA data and modify the Center for Health Equity's website as needed.

The position will be a hybrid remote/onsite position and is located in San Francisco, with up to two days per week in the office located on the San Francisco General Hospital Campus. Some travel within California (e.g., for pretesting or occasional meetings with collaborators) will be required. Candidates should be highly detail oriented and work well both independently and as part of a team.

This position will entail effective communication with staff and faculty at various professional levels within the UCSF Center for Health Equity, other UCSF researchers, and with outside collaborators including program and epidemiology staff at CDPH/MCAH, subcontractors, and community organizations. This is a full-time position.

The final salary and offer components are subject to additional approvals based on UC policy.

Your placement within the salary range is dependent on a number of factors including your work experience and internal equity within this position classification  positions that are represented by a labor union, placement within the salary range will be guided by the rules in the collective bargaining agreement.

The salary range for this position is $34.48 - $74.04 (Hourly Rate).

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Department Description

The Department of Family & Community Medicine is a mid-sized department in the School of Medicine. The mission of FCM is to improve health through excellence and innovation in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community empowerment. FCM is dedicated to building a just and equitable society, recognizing that health and illness are shaped by the context of people's lives.

The Center for Health Equity (CHE) is part of the Department of Family and Community Medicine (FCM). CHE is committed to a world with health equity, in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. CHE plays a leading role in research looking at upstream factors to improve health equity in the United States. Improving health equity entails removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, powerlessness, and their consequences.

Health equity requires access to good jobs with fair pay; quality education, housing, and health care; and safe environments. To that end, CHE conducts…