JHU Research Fellow

General Description

The Armstrong Institute Center for Health Care Human Factors ( www.hopkinsmedicine.org / armstrong / humanfactors ) in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is recruiting a postdoctoral research fellow with expertise in human factors engineering, cognitive psychology, industrial engineering, systems engineering, public health, health services research, anthropology, sociology or a related field. Experience in health care related work is highly desired. Experience or interest in both qualitative and quantitative analysis methods is also desired. The Center for Health Care Human Factors brings together experts in human factors and organizational psychology with an interdisciplinary group of researchers, practitioners and educators to (re)design health care systems and technologies that work for care providers, in order to create efficient and safe care processes, mitigate risk of patient safety, and improve patient outcomes.

The fellow will primarily be working with Dr. Ayse Gurses supporting research projects in a variety of areas such as improving prehospital care delivery, developing EHR based nurse practitioner workload tools, design and implementation of artificial intelligence-based technologies to support frontline care and other and related topics. The fellow will also have the opportunity to collaborate with other interdisciplinary research members of the Armstrong Institute.

Responsibilities :

• Conduct literature review and summarize findings
• Utilize knowledge of human factors methodologies, quality literature, theories of innovation and operational expertise to help research team develop goals and strategies to achieve those goals.
• Assist in the preparation of study protocols and materials and other essential study functions (e.g., IRB).
• Assist in performing qualitative data collection at multiple sites

oParticipate in the development of materials for efficient qualitative data collection.

oSchedule data collection activities

oRecruit study participants; develop recruitment documents (e.g., emails, fliers, etc.,) and facilitate dissemination

oConduct in-person observations in a variety of care settings

oConduct in-depth interviews and focus groups with study participants (virtual and in-person) with care professionals and clinicians in different healthcare settings

oPrepare and administer surveys, etc.

oPerform rigorous, computer-assisted qualitative data analysis using software such as NVivo, MAXQDA, Dedoose and other relevant software platforms

Qualifications Minimum qualifications (mandatory) :

Ability and willingness to travel to participating study sites to gather data in site visits.

Other requirements (preferred) :

Special knowledge, skills, abilities and technical qualifications :

Application Instructions Application deadline :

Materials to submit :

Contact Information :

To apply for this position, visit : apply.interfolio.com / 163259

Salary Range

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