• Search/navigate scientific literature to describe current status, evidence-based practices and
treatments, and risks and protective factors associated with fibroids
• Data collection: Develop focus group, interview, and/or survey instruments and protocols; Conduct focus groups, interviews, and/or surveys; etc.
• Data management: Ability to clean, code and store information to increase anonymity and
confidentiality
• Data analysis: this position will have a primary focus on qualitative data, such as focus group and interview transcripts, but may involve quantitative analysis as well using medical record data sets
• Lead/contribute to scientific writing to include but not limited to: manuscripts, conference
presentations, and dissemination of research results to various audiences and stakeholder groups
• Develop health education materials focused on women’s health
• Interact with research administrative departments/entities and collaborating institutions
• Analyze quantitative data
• Coordinate and/or lead study meetings
• Study recruitment
• Develop study protocols/procedures, including IRB
• Write and submit manuscripts for publication consideration in peer-reviewed journals
• Write and submit abstracts for presentation at academic and scientific conferences
Must be able to work collaboratively with Mayo Clinic and UF COM-Jax faculty and staff. Application of databases and software such as REDCap are needed to complete tasks that range from data cleaning and coding, data analysis, data management, manuscript preparations, editing, and resource management.
Ability to train research coordinators and community health workers on consenting eligible persons into research studies, and implement privacy procedures when recruiting potential participants identified from clinical- and community- based settings.
Ability to multi-task and independently function as part of a multi-faceted research team to employ stakeholder/community engagement research involving qualitative and quantitative methods engaging different stakeholders receiving (patients), delivering (healthcare providers), and establishing (administrators, insurance providers) practices in research focused on uterine fibroids.
The postdoctoral associate will be affiliated with the Center for Health Equity and Engagement Research (https://med.jax.ufl.edu/center-health-equity-engagement-research/) where Lori Bilello, PhD, and Fern J. Webb, PhD serve as co-directors.