Research Assistant Positions, NIH-Funded Breastfeeding Study - Albert Einstein College of Medicine

This is a 5-year NIH-funded clinical trial of prenatal care-based interventions to increase breastfeeding in low-income multiethnic women. It is a full time position, available immediately.

Requirements: (ALL ARE ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED)
* Bachelor’s in Psychology, Health Education, Human Services, or related discipline
* Research study or interviewing experience
* Bi-lingual in English and Spanish (oral and written)
* Familiarity/comfort with ACCESS data entry, accessing electronic records, etc.
* Flexibility to include some night/week-end telephone interviewing
* Very strong organizational and follow-up skills

Responsibilities: RA will: approach pre-natal patients in busy, women’s health care practices in 2 Montefiore sites; recruit, screen, and consent women; conduct pre-natal baseline interview; insert a prompt into the site’s electronic pre-natal record for participants assigned to a pre-natal care provider; scan surveys into Teleform; enter participants into ACCESS database. RAs will conduct the 1, 3, and 6 month post-partum follow-up interviews. RAs will devote up to 25% FTE to night and week-end contacts.

Contact: Send cv and cover letter stating salary history AND requirements to: Karen Bonuck, PhD, Principal Investigator, Department of Family and Social Medicine, kbonuck@montefiore.org