Clinical Research Assistant

SUMMARY

• The Pediatric Health Disparities Research Program at Rhode Island Hospital/Brown Medical School seeks a Spanish-fluent full-time clinical research assistant for pediatric behavioral health research studies. These innovative projects utilize a multi-method, in-depth approaches to characterize asthma, sleep patterns and sleep settings of urban elementary-school-aged children in combination with biological measures that may differ based on children's ethnic background and may contribute to asthma outcomes. These studies are taking place through the Childhood Asthma Research Program (CARP) lab, which conducts research studies examining pediatric health disparities and developing interventions to improve health and sleep outcomes in children and youth. Faculty supervisors are members of the Brown Clinical Psychology Training Consortium and actively involved in research and clinical work with children. Specific tasks will include assistance with research participant recruitment and scheduling, administering semi-structured interviews and questionnaires to children and their parents, preparing and summarizing study results, and other tasks integral to research. Some amount of involvement in other studies in the lab will occur on an ad hoc basis. The research assistant may have the opportunity to participate in generating presentations and reports as the data permit. Our research protocols have been adapted to administer remotely while COVID-19 related social distancing measures are required. Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another. In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done.
• The core
• Success
• Factors include: Instill Trust and Value Differences
• Patient and
• Community
• Focus and
• Collaborate
• Responsibilities:
• Responsibilities include but are not limited to: olCollect data in the form of questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, specialized electronic monitoring devices and biological samples (e.g., blood and saliva samples) Data organization and data entry Assisting with coordination of each aspect of the project, including administrative tasks and communication with all research team members, school personnel and other community members. Coordinating meetings, taking meeting minutes, documenting of study decisions Assistance with tracking and reporting study milestones Assisting with preparing conference presentations, manuscripts and grant proposals/ol