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Postdoctoral Associate
Drs. Rushina Cholera (Duke-Margolis, Duke Pediatrics), Lisa Gennetian (Duke Sanford), and Sarahn Wheeler (Duke School of Medicine), co-leads for a multi-year Maternal & Early Childhood Health Initiative focused on improving maternal health and child wellbeing among North Carolina’s perinatal-to-three population, are seeking a postdoctoral research associate. This is a 2-year appointment.
The initiative aims to build an integrated, data-driven ecosystem that strengthens care delivery, service coordination, and outcomes for pregnant people, infants, young children, and their families. The postdoctoral associate will work closely with Dr. Rushina Cholera and a multidisciplinary leadership team to design and implement the initiative’s data, measurement, and evaluation strategy, with a focus on cross-sector data infrastructure, linkage, performance measurement, evaluation, and continuous learning.
Project Planner I
The Center for Child and Family Policy (CCFP) at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy is seeking a project manager/research analyst to support a portfolio of program, research, and policy activities focused on economic and cash support for families in North Carolina and across the United States during the prenatal through early childhood period.
The position will work across two complementary areas: initiatives connected to the North Carolina Maternal and Early Childhood Health Initiative, co-led by Drs. Rushina Cholera, Lisa Gennetian, and Sarahn Wheeler; and research and policy projects related to cash support and the U.S. safety net for families led by Dr. Lisa Gennetian.
This is a substantive project management and research role. The Project Planner I will help move complex projects from planning and coordination through research and policy analysis, stakeholder engagement, writing, and dissemination. The successful candidate will manage multiple workstreams and deadlines while also contributing directly to research and policy products.
Senior Research Data Technician
The Research Data Tech Sr is a key member of the field operations team for Midlife Health in the Rural South: Risk and Resilience. The position is based in the study region and requires regular travel among participating North Carolina counties for community outreach, participant recruitment, interviewing, assessments, and specimen transport.
The specialist will be supervised by the project's manager and will work closely with the project manager, project leader, PI team, and other study team members. Contact with project leadership will occur primarily through Zoom, including weekly virtual meetings throughout field operations and more frequent meetings during the launch of field activities.
Successful candidates will also have opportunities, if interested, to work with study team members on research-related presentations, manuscript development, and publication.
Location Note
Work for this position will be based in the North Carolina counties of Bertie, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Hertford, Martin, Nash, Northampton, Pitt, Tyrrell, Vance, Warren, Washington, and Wilson. This position will require significant travel between these counties. Preference would be for the Clinical Research Specialist to live in or near one of these counties.
Bilingual Research Data Technician II
At Duke, we celebrate individuality and the unique perspectives that each member of our community brings. As a Bilingual Research Data Technician II, you will play a vital role in advancing innovative research designed to improve the health and well-being of children and families. You will join a collaborative team dedicated to evaluating evidence-based interventions that strengthen family relationships, promote healthy child development, and connect families to the resources they need to thrive.
This position supports two groundbreaking longitudinal studies:
ABC Impact Study (75%)
Although numerous evidence-based early childhood home visiting intervention programs have been implemented at small scale in community settings to reduce maltreatment and promote early relational health, no home visiting intervention has demonstrated population impact to lower child maltreatment rates. To address these barriers while leveraging the strengths of each approach, this study will draw families from the entire population of births in a community using an empirically supported light touch, universal program (Family Connects; FC) to screen and recruit eligible families for an intensive, longer-term home visiting program (Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up; ABC). The goal is to determine the impact of this collaborative approach on parental sensitivity, parental functioning, child functioning, and child maltreatment.
Community Navigation (25%)
During some of the most critical years of child development, prenatally through age three, families spend significant time and resources navigating a fragmented system of care. Community Navigation charts a new vision that will offer all families universal screening to connect them to the right resources at the right time through a series of universal, light-touch engagements beginning prenatally and continuing through age 5. In collaboration with colleagues in Guilford County, the Center for Child and Family Policy (CCFP) is overseeing a randomized control trial involving 800 Durham County families to assess the implementation and impact of prenatal and postnatal Community Navigation. The goal is to determine the efficacy of the model in improving multiple domains of child and family well-being, including connections to community resources and services, parenting and parent mental health, child social-emotional and behavioral development, and kindergarten readiness.