The Center of Healthcare Delivery Science (C4HDS) is recruiting a Research Specialist (RS) to join its team. C4HDS is an academic research center in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The Center’s activities focus on identifying, designing, and rigorously evaluating interventions to improve the quality of health care, with a focus on medication use.  Our studies combine techniques from behavioral science, machine learning, and implementation research and incorporate influences from other fields including economics, health policy, biostatistics, epidemiology and clinical medicine. Unlike typical research groups, the Center’s work involves close collaborations between academic researchers and groups that deliver care, administer health insurance benefits and/or develop technologies for improving healthcare. The Center’s largest projects involve “real world” randomized controlled trials that seek to identify simple and scalable strategies for enhancing patient and provider engagement. The design and conduct of these studies must creatively blend rigorous research methods with the operational realities faced by organizations that deliver healthcare.

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Functioning under the direction of the Executive Director for the Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences (C4HDS), the Research Specialist assists in designing, planning and execution of trials conducted at the Center. The Research Specialist will help with day-to-day management of pragmatic trials and will contribute to design and analysis of trials, drafting reports, manuscripts (including co-authorship as appropriate), presentations, and grant writings. Using the principles of pragmatic trial design and behavioral science, the Research Specialist will work with internal and external investigators to successfully design, execute, analyze and report study findings to various stakeholders.