at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 50601
Department: MED-Medical Social Sciences
Salary/Grade: EXS/5
Target hiring range for this position will be between $49,850-$62,595 per year. Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Job Summary:
Overview: MSS
The Department of Medical Social Sciences (MSS) is a leader in advancing and applying outcomes/effectiveness research to improve patient care and influence policy. Our strong academic ties across the university and the medical school encourage comprehensive collaboration in disease management, prevention, and control. We intend to meet a growing need for expanded interdisciplinary scientific collaboration, to promote discovery of multidimensional mechanisms of health and disease, to improve adult and pediatric health status and outcome assessment, and to collaborate with partners in genetic, epidemiologic, biologic and behavioral translational research paradigms. While part of our work serves to reduce health disparities of groups that are traditionally underrepresented in research, we acknowledge that there is always room to grow. MSS is committed to creating a world of inclusion, health, and well-being for all. We hire the best people from a wide variety of backgrounds because drawing on their diverse perspectives and experiences will be the foundation of our department’s future success.
Overview:
The EDIT Program The Evaluation, Data Integration, and Technical Assistance (EDIT) Program at Northwestern University is a leader in community-based evaluation focused on improving the health and wellbeing of sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals, especially youth and young adults. EDIT Program empowers community agencies to strategically plan, implement, and evaluate innovative and culturally responsive programming that serves SGM youth. EDIT Program develops and apply innovative methods to rigorously analyze SGM health disparities using a variety of data sources and applying an intersectional and community engaged approach and focuses on advancing health equity and identifying health needs among understudied SGM populations, including bisexual, transgender, asexual, intersex, racial/ethnic minority, adolescent and older adult communities. EDIT Program share best practices and lessons learned from program evaluation and research studies with policymakers, funders, researchers, and service providers to improve community response to serving sexual and gender minority youth. One of the key projects of the EDIT Program is the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) project, an R01-funded project to explore health disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual youth within a pooled YRBS dataset containing more than 1 million observations.
