Duties and Responsibilities
- Under the immediate supervision of the Principal Investigator (PI) and senior staff, in partnership between the Hawai'i Department of Health’s (DOH) Alcohol and Drug Use Division (ADAD) and Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health, assist with providing research support on projects addressing substance use within the state in order to disseminate state data in a user-friendly format
- Systematically search and summarize surveillance and epidemiological research literature on public health topics, specifically related to substance use, addiction, morbidity, mortality, prevention and treatment
- Assist with data abstraction, cleaning, management, coding and analyzing for large surveillance datasets, e.g., emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalization, substance use and treatment
- Attend technical assistance (TA) training webinars, take notes, and summarize how the TA can contribute to the project
- Under guidance of the PI and other senior program staff, perform quantitative and qualitative data analyses related to various population-level health indicators related to substance use
- Assist with the implementation of the project work plan and evaluation plan
- Support the development, writing, and formatting of abstracts, manuscripts, presentations, and reports
- Present results graphically and in text to local stakeholder and funders for use in reports, conference presentations, and publications
- Duties will be selected collaboratively with candidates, in line with their experience and interests and could focus more heavily on coding / analytics, project implementation or implementation evaluation.
- Attend weekly team meetings
- Other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications
- Classified, full-time graduate student in epidemiology, public health, psychology, economics, computer science, social work, public policy, or related field at UH Manoa under UH Graduate Division.
- Be in good academic standing and maintain a GPA of 3.0 or above
- Maintain no less than 6 credits per semester with the exception of those who have reached 800 (dissertation) or 700F (thesis)
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Experience with data presentation and data visualization
- Attention to detail for meeting milestones and deliverables in a timely manner
- Competency with Office, Google features, Zoom functions
- Proficient with statistical software e.g., R, SPSS, SAS, Stata or Tableau
Desirable Qualifications
- A doctoral student at the University of Hawaii
- Familiarity with substance use research, intervention and treatment research in substance use, or prevention research through previous coursework and/or work experience
- Knowledge of epidemiology or statistics as evidenced by coursework and/or experience
- Experience with secondary data analyses
- Experience with applied research, working in the community, or volunteering
- Experience preparing research reports and/or scientific publications, data presentations and data visualizations
- Previous experience with state or federally funded projects
