Job detail for Research Assistant

The Department of Epidemiology is looking to hire a full-time Research Assistant for a research study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The study will be conducted in the GWU Hospital Emergency Department.

The primary of the job will be: (1) acting as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) navigator and resource to the other research assistants (RAs) who work in the emergency department (ED); (2) working in the ED screening and identifying eligible participants, explaining study procedures and obtaining consent, conducting HIV prevention and PrEP medication counseling, providing patients with a PrEP Decision Support Tool and reviewing results with patients, helping to coordinate receipt of PrEP medication including making appointments for patients with community PrEP providers, and providing referrals to social services; and (3) conducting follow-up interviews with participants. It is expected that the candidate selected for this job will develop in-depth knowledge about PrEP and will be comfortable talking to patients, other research staff, and clinical staff about PrEP.

Essential Duties and include the following:

• Interact with patients and clinical providers to screen, recruit, and consent participants, conduct surveys, collect data, and enter data into a computer.
• Work with the study coordinator to ensure that the baseline and telephone follow-up interviews are conducted in a timely manner and as successfully as possible.
• Conduct telephone follow-up with participants
• Provide daily research support for the assigned research project and related activities, including informed consent, enrollment, data collection (i.e., conducting interviews), data entry, management, and review.
• Interact with the clinical staff and ensure that study procedures do not disrupt clinical operations where patients are being treated
• Attend mandatory study team meetings as scheduled and lead the review of enrollment and follow-up results.

Performs other related duties as assigned. The omission of specific duties does not preclude the supervisor from assigning duties that are logically related to the position.