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Research Assistant
| Site: | Naval Health Research Center |
| Job Location: |
San Diego - San Diego County |
| Employment Type: | Full Time |
| Benefits: | Full |
Description: | Looking for an exciting new career? Join our team! The Geneva Foundation is a non-profit organization which promotes and supports military medicine. The Foundation has built relationships with highly skilled, exceptionally motivated, world-recognized researchers and medical professionals and hires top-quality staff. By joining The Geneva Foundation, you will have an exciting and stimulating career in which you will advance, “The Future of Military Medicine. Today.”
The Geneva Foundation is seeking a Research Assistant to support the Deployment Health Research department’s mission conducting epidemiological studies to investigate the longitudinal health outcomes of military personnel, and the impact of military experiences including deployments. Research includes studies of symptoms, hospitalizations, reproductive outcomes, mortality, and other health outcomes among DoD beneficiary populations, both military and civilian. Included among the core programs are the Millennium Cohort Study, Millennium Cohort Family Study, the Birth and Infant Health Registry, and the Recruit Assessment Program, as well as other deployment related studies within the department. This acquisition will provide research support services for conducting epidemiological studies to investigate the longitudinal health outcomes of military personnel, and the impact of military experiences including deployments, vaccinations, and other military experiences.
Activities (Tasks) to accomplish this task order involve the following:
•Task 1: DoD Healthcare Utilization Data Augment the evaluation and analysis of Department of Defense healthcare utilization data among military, veteran, and dependent populations. The contractor shall clean and edit the increasingly large and complex databases through summarization, mathematical modeling, and interpretation, utilizing complex algorithms and computer programs
•Task 2: DoD Healthcare Utilization Data (Exposure and Disease Specific) augment the evaluation and analysis Department of Defense healthcare utilization data among military, veteran, and dependent populations from current military Operations and related deployment health with exposure‐specific and disease‐specific analyses. Prepare and publish results of the research conducted through technical reports for military use and/or peer reviewed journals for use by the appropriate medical community, as well as present research findings at scientific and military meetings during this performance period.
•Task 3: Health Surveillance of Marines augment the evaluation and analysis of results from the baseline health data of more than 10,000 Marines undergoing recruit training in San Diego on an annual basis, and maintain complete health surveillance data on these Marines. Collect and analyze additional questionnaire‐based follow‐up data, using standardized scannable, self‐completed, paper‐and pencil health questionnaires.
•Task 4: Millenium Cohort Study Support the Millennium Cohort study operations by continuing to follow US military personnel prospectively by using postal surveys and web‐based/internet surveys. Establish, maintain, and manage an interactive website with state‐of‐the‐art security features. Conduct very large mailings that include introductory and reminder postcards, Memorial and Veterans Day postcards, and questionnaire packets. Maintain and update web servers which enable mailing surveys and other study materials to >150,000 participants. Securely maintain email addresses for study subjects, and use these email addresses to send invitational emails, Memorial and Veterans Day emails, along with other study relevant electronic communications. Employ consultants as needed to successfully accomplish the work of this study. Cost‐saving initiatives (caps, gift cards, and coins) shall be provided to participants as deemed appropriate for the efficient scientific conduction of the study. Follow cohort members previously surveyed, and continue to recruit participation from a new panel of cohort members. Shall design and maintain the survey instruments, and continue to gather self‐reported data on demographic characteristics, medical conditions and symptoms, alcohol and smoking behaviors, diet and exercise, as well as new information on deployment‐related exposures. Utilize standardized, validated instruments to capture self‐assessed physical and mental well‐being (SF‐36V), mental health diagnoses (Patient Health Questionnaire), and posttraumatic stress disorder (PCL‐17). Shall use established cost‐effective initiatives to encourage participant website use – these include, but are not limited to, caps, coins, and gift cards. Establish methods to design, produce, mail, and track participant receipt of such initiatives. Develop strategies to maintain participant retention in the study including newsletter as well as other mailers. Clean and analyze the data using complex algorithms and computer programs. Provide periodic assessments of scientific data.
•Task 5: DoD Birth and Infant Health Registry collect and analyze data from infants born to military beneficiaries that have been captured in the Department of Defense Birth and Infant Health Registry. The Registry includes data on associated medical conditions, geographic location, and demographics of the military sponsor. Birth defects and other critical health outcomes are identified by International Classification of Diseases, Version 9 (ICD9) coding of inpatient and outpatient encounters. When linked to other standard military databases, important information can be captured on vaccination, occupational, and environmental exposures that may be associated with birth defects. Collaborate with leading experts on this project on exposure‐specific and diagnosis‐specific analyses.
•Task 6: Vaccinations Impact study the impact of vaccinations received among military beneficiaries and specific health outcomes. This work includes creating and working with large military databases. Being facile with their creation and analyses, including date interpretation and writing.
•Task 7: Other Research Protocols support other research protocols on deployment and military health within the department by assisting with the execution of these studies from design to completion. | Duties: | The Research Assistant shall be responsible for the following:
* Perform ICD-9 coding of patient encounters.
* Collect and maintain contact data for survey studies
* Increase communication between stakeholders (internal and external) by designing and maintaining surveys, newsletters, mailers, and other materials
* Initiate communication with study enrollees by phone, mail and/or email
* Collect and maintain health surveillance data
* Compile self-reported data via questionnaires and standardized forms
* Track and execute research protocols from design to completion | Qualifications: | REQUIREMENTS:
* Bachelors, Masters or PhD Degree in a related field.
* Research Assistants’ should have experience in one or more of the following disciplines: chemistry, biology, mathematics, botany and geology.
* Must have previous experience with ICD-9 coding of patient encounters. |
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