DescriptionJob Function Summary
Involves gathering, analyzing, and interpreting a wide variety of research data. Designs and conducts research including selecting data samples, developing research instruments, analyzing collected information according to established statistical methods, and developing recommendations based on research findings. Prepares reports, charts, tables, and other visual aids to interpret and communicate data and results.
Generic Scope
Professional who applies acquired job skills, policies, and procedures to complete substantive assignments / projects / tasks of moderate scope and complexity; exercises judgment within defined guidelines and practices to determine appropriate action.
Custom Scope
The Research Data Analyst will provide research analytical, administrative, and program coordinating project support to Dr. Elizabeth Dzeng’s projects associated with Hospital Medicine and Palliative Medicine research. The RDA will work on a variety of projects and should have the ability to balance multiple tasks and projects.
These projects include:
- A series of projects about the impact of increasing financialization of the US healthcare system on clinicians’ ability to deliver high-quality, patient-centered serious illness and end-of-life care in accordance with their ethical and professional standards. These projects will focus on the impacts of different kinds of financialization on the healthcare system, such as increasing involvement of external financial actors in healthcare, as well as the expansion of existing academic healthcare systems to merge with and acquire new hospitals.
- A series of ethnographic projects focused on understanding patients’ and surrogates’ experiences of system-level factors and how these impact their decision-making regarding serious illness and end-of-life care in the hospital, with a focus on the administration of potentially non-beneficial, high-intensity life-sustaining treatments near the end of life.
- The RA’s focus will primarily be the above three projects, but will also assist with ongoing projects with the research team, including:
- A community-based participatory research project understanding how structural racism impacts serious illness and end-of-life care in older Black adults with serious illness. This qualitative project involves collaborating with community members in the Bay Area, working with a Community Advisory Board to assist with analysis of data from the project, and engaging in in-depth analysis of qualitative interviews conducted with hospital staff, clinicians, administrators and older Black adults with serious illness.