Research Associate, Bureau of Health Promotion Justice-Impacted Populations

Research Associate, Bureau of Health Promotion for Justice-Impacted Populations

The Bureau of Health Promotion for Justice-Impacted Populations (HPJIP) aims to reduce the negative social and health consequences of justice system involvement through innovative policy and practice change. By centering community, addressing racial inequities, honoring lived experience, and elevating trauma- and resilience-informed approaches, we promote evidence-based best practices to address the needs of those disproportionately impacted by the criminal legal system.

The Epidemiology Unit is responsible for providing support to HPJIP programmatic initiatives as well as disseminating research, integrating data to monitor and evaluate evidence-based public health policies and programs, and ensuring the Bureau's work is rooted in scientific evidence.

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Division of Mental Hygiene seeks a full-time Research Associate for the Bureau of Health Promotion for Justice-Impacted Populations.

• Serve as a resource for programmatic data management and quality assurance, including identifying and resolving data quality issues, conducting data cleaning, and communicating findings to relevant team members.
• Coordinate data-system-related activities including database maintenance and case management system support. Support the development and facilitation of trainings and materials on data systems and tools for program staff.
• Ensure compliance with data governance policies by identifying confidentiality concerns and contributing to strategies that strengthen data security, appropriate use, and sharing.
• Support the development and maintenance of monitoring tools, such as program metrics and dashboards, to assess program performance and outcomes.
• Work with the Epi team to design, implement, and refine data collection instruments, protocols, and processes to enhance monitoring and evaluation of bureau programs.
• Contribute to the interpretation of program data to support data-informed decision-making across Epi and Program teams.
• Develop data visualization strategies to meet the needs of Epi, Program, and other internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead the development of dashboards and contribute to analyses to monitor publicly available data as well as data from criminal legal system agencies.
• Conduct literature reviews and contribute to the development of written materials such as reports, manuscripts, and presentations.
• Participate in special studies and activities as assigned and other duties related to surveillance and monitoring.

• Analytic skills, including data analysis using SAS, SPSS, Stata, R or another statistical package, as well as experience with qualitative research methods, including data collection and analysis.
• Experience and interest in working with justice-impacted or other marginalized communities.
• Experience using a racial equity lens to manage and conceptualize data.
• Experience with health services research, specifically using health encounter data, as well as program evaluation data.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and familiarity with project management.
• Experience contributing to written products for a variety of stakeholders, including healthcare providers, program staff, and scientific audiences.
• Ability to quickly familiarize oneself with priority public health and health policy topics, without prior experience.

• For Assignment Level I: A master's degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological and environmental science or in public health.
• For Assignment Level II and above: A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity, or a master's degree with three years of responsible full-time research experience, or educational and/or experiential equivalency. All candidates must have at least a master’s degree in an appropriate field of…