UCSF Campus BU is seeking a Research Data Analyst II to support Dr. Elizabeth Dzeng’s Hospital Medicine and Palliative Medicine research portfolio. This onsite role in San Francisco centers on collecting, analyzing, and interpreting qualitative and mixed/quantitative research data, including coding and manuscript development.
Role overview
The Research Data Analyst II will provide research analytical, administrative, and project coordination support across multiple efforts associated with Hospital Medicine and Palliative Medicine. The work includes supporting data collection and output (such as article generation), coding and analyzing qualitative data, managing an Atlas.ti database, and contributing to manuscript conceptualization and writing. The position also supports mixed methods and quantitative projects related to intervention development, including identifying areas of synergy across projects within the Division of Hospital Medicine.
Responsibilities
- Deliver research analytical, administrative, and program coordination project support to Dr. Elizabeth Dzeng’s Hospital Medicine and Palliative Medicine projects.
- Manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects across a variety of concurrent efforts.
- Participate in data collection, analysis, and output activities for qualitative data (including article-level deliverables).
- Code and analyze qualitative data.
- Manage the Atlas.ti database.
- Conceptualize and write manuscripts.
- Support mixed methods and quantitative work related to intervention development.
- Identify areas of synergy across related projects within the Division of Hospital Medicine.
Project focus (custom scope)
- Support studies examining the impact of increasing financialization of the US healthcare system on clinicians’ ability to provide high-quality, patient-centered serious illness and end-of-life care consistent with ethical and professional standards.
- Analyze how different forms of financialization affect healthcare, including increased involvement of external financial actors and academic healthcare systems expanding through mergers and acquisitions of hospitals.
- Contribute to ethnographic projects focused on patients’ and surrogates’ experiences of system-level factors and how these influence decision-making for serious illness and end-of-life care, with attention to administration of potentially non-beneficial, high-intensity life-sustaining treatments near the end of life.
- Primarily support the three projects above while also assisting ongoing team work, including a community-based participatory research project on how structural racism impacts serious illness and end-of-life care in older Black adults with serious illness.
- Collaborate with community members in the Bay Area on the community-based participatory research project.
- Work with a Community Advisory Board to support analysis of project data.
- Conduct in-depth analysis of qualitative interviews collected from hospital staff, clinicians, administrators, and older Black adults with serious illness.
- Assist with comparative ethnographic and human-centered design work on systems-level factors contributing to potentially non-beneficial, high-intensity life-sustaining treatments near the end of life among older adults with and without dementia.
- Use qualitative methods and human-centered design to co-design interventions aimed at mitigating cultures of high-intensity serious illness and end-of-life care.
Required qualifications
- Working knowledge of research functions.
- Working skills in statistical analysis, systems programming, database design, and data security measures.
- Working skills in analysis and consultation.
- Skills to communicate complex information clearly and concisely in both verbal and written formats.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in a related area.
- Preferred: Master’s degree in a health care or social scientific field (e.g., MPH, MS, MA).
Department context
The Division of Hospital Medicine (DHM) is the largest division in the Division of Medicine (DOM) by faculty size and is described as a national leader in clinical care, education, research, and quality improvement. The division operates 11 clinical services and provides care for nearly half of adult hospital patients on any given day, and it includes 190 faculty, 7 MSP Physicians, 9 fellows, and 30 staff. DHM solicits services from a cadre of 100 physicians, fellows, and residents outside the division for moonlighting.
Location and compensation
Location: San Francisco, CA (onsite). Salary: USD 56 per hour. Minimum experience: 1 year.
