RESEARCH COORDINATOR

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Housed in the UW School of Public Health, the Department of Health Systems and Population Health (HSPop) is a dynamic academic and research department with the mission of working with partners in public health and health care to prepare leaders, design solutions, and conduct innovative research that is translated into practice and policy. The Department is steadfast in its efforts to improve and promote the health of all populations, and staff contribute daily and directly to the work of faculty, students, researchers and other staff, providing support and expertise to the Department's common cause.

The Department of HSPop values and honors excellence in teaching, mentoring, research, practice, and service to catalyze innovative solutions that overcome complex public health challenges. We are dedicated to hiring staff who integrate the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism within their roles and responsibilities.

We value and honor diverse experiences and perspectives, strive to create welcoming and respectful learning environments, and promote access, opportunity, and equity for all. The individual in this position is expected to be a steward of the program’s and department’s mission and core values, including the pursuit of equity, diversity, and inclusion.

The Department of HSPop has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Coordinator. This position will support community-engaged substance use related research under the direction of Dr. Jenna van Draanen. The EMS Overdose Prevention Project (EMS-OPP) partners with people who use drugs, EMS leadership, and community partners to collect pilot data and co-design EMS-delivered interventions tailored to reduce stigma and increase access to care for people who use drugs. These interventions hold great potential to reduce racial disparities in access to evidence-based medical services and to improve long-term outcomes. In response to the escalating overdose crisis, and racial disparities in outcomes, state governments have expanded EMS funding, training, and scope of practice. The EMS-OPP capitalizes on this key moment in the opioid crisis to assess the population-level and equity impact of a structural community-level intervention with real-world complexities that has the potential for spread and scale.

In this role, the Research Coordinator is expected to support efforts to engage with community members and study stakeholders, coordinate study activities, assist in development of study tools and research protocols, contribute to human subjects applications and renewals, coordinate with fiscal and purchasing staff, coordinate staff training and data collection, analysis and contribute to dissemination of findings. Study will be examining systemic racism in overdose response systems in King County. Community members with lived experience of overdose, drug use, and first responder interactions are heavily involved in all phases of these associated studies and researchers and community members are partnering in data collection, analysis, and dissemination of results. The successful candidate must be comfortable working with community members in this capacity and should have experience in similar anti-racist community-engaged research projects. The successful candidate should also have experience with coordinating large research studies.

In years 2 and 3 of the study, the Research Coordinator will supervise two part-time Research Study Coordinator 2 positions.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
STUDY COORDINATION (30%)