Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Jochen Profit

Dr. Jochen Profit’s lab uses transdisciplinary team science to optimize health care delivery for sick neonates and their families.  The lab facilitates this goal at the level of the healthcare system as well as at the level of individual care delivery facilities. A key strength of the lab is access to California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative (CPQCC) resources. The CPQCC coordinates quality improvement activities across the state, via audit and feedback of clinical and operational data and via active quality improvement collaborative programs centered around clinical improvement aims. Nearly all neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in California are members of the CPQCC. Uniquely, CPQCC data are linked to a variety of data sources, which allow for investigation of maternal health, socio-demographic background, infant inter-hospital transfer, and long-term infant follow up.

Our current NIH-funded projects address disparities in health care delivery to very preterm infants and their mothers. Using multilevel data, we have developed a disparity dashboard for NICUs to promote implementation of disparity solutions.  Our ongoing work seeks to understand the variation in disparities in maternal and neonatal outcomes in the AANHPI population (Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander). We are also looking at how safety-net NICUs are working to improve rates of exclusive breastmilk at discharge among the very low birthweight babies they care for.

We are hiring a Post-Doctoral candidate to assist our team conduct a qualitative deep-dive among these NICUs and their communities to assess sources of disparity not apparent in existing data sets. This individual will both support and be an individual contributor to research projects. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team, the candidate will design and lead qualitative and quantitative research efforts. This may include fieldwork data collection, focus groups, key informant interviews, direct observation, analysis, and dissemination of results through internal and external reports, journal publications, and professional conference presentations. The candidate will also support the preparation of grant proposals and other project coordination as needed. A successful candidate will have strong attention to detail, capacity to work independently and as part of a team, have an interest in building lasting processes and structures, and be dedicated to supporting large scale organizational improvement.

Responsibilities:

The fellow will work with a transdisciplinary team of principal investigators; disciplines of pediatrics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics (including Professors Jochen Profit, Christine Morton, Jeffrey Gould).

The fellow will participate in current grant and CPQCC activities, with the opportunity for novel data collection, and program evaluation. The fellow will design and execute analyses of existing rich qualitative, clinical and epidemiological datasets that are associated with quality of care delivery for mothers and newborns. The development of manuscripts and grant proposals are expected, as is participation in the education of trainees.

Project Management:  (in coordination with Principal Investigator and project staff)
Develop and maintain systems for organizing and curating all qualitative research activities and data including recording of ethnographic field notes and other analytic notes created during or immediately post data collection.

Project support: Participate with study team members in development of ongoing project reports and documentation of progress, including analysis of qualitative data, summarization of findings, and development of visuals to communicate findings to stakeholders.