Research and Staff Positions Available

Center for HOPES Research Specialist

Summary of Duties:
The Center for Health Outcomes Policy and Evaluation Studies (HOPES) is looking for a Research Specialist to participate in a variety of health services and public health research, program evaluation, and other projects. The Center for HOPES, located at The Ohio State University's College of Public Health, conducts applied health services research studies to help public and private organizations evaluate clinical effectiveness, quality of care, cost of medical services, processes of care, and other investigations in the areas of health outcomes, policy, and evaluation.

The Research Specialist works collaboratively with other researchers in the Center for Health Outcomes Policy and Evaluation Studies, in the College of Public Health, to conduct a variety of health care services research, public health studies, health care program evaluation, and other projects under the general supervision of the Center Director. Activities will include data collection and analysis, literature reviews, facilitating communication among researchers, report preparation and presentation, and policy analysis. The research specialist may work as part of a project team, assisting in research design and project planning activities, helping to prepare reports, and participating as a co-author in publications related to other projects; and may direct certain portions of other research projects, under the supervision of the Center Director or a project's principal investigator; and perform other duties as assigned by the Center Director.

This is an outstanding opportunity for any qualified individual interested in contributing to significant research studies on a part-time basis.

Required Qualifications:
Master's degree or equivalent clinical degree in health care, health services research, public health, or other relevant discipline; considerable practical experience planning and performing research projects, particularly organization/delivery of health care services or public health program evaluation; ability to perform quantitative and statistical analysis of data and possess a basic familiarity with qualitative research approaches; excellent oral and written communications skills; effective organizational and planning skills; knowledge of bibliographic search/retrieval; and ability to perform data analyses using standard statistical software.

Desired Qualifications:
Doctoral degree and experience performing analyses in STATA preferred.

There are no current openings at this time. If you are interested in submitting a resume for possible future consideration, please send it to hopes@cph.osu.edu.