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Description & Requirements
Description & Requirements
This Limited Appointment will end 12 months from the start date.
We are seeking a part-time researcher who will work closely with the Principal Investigator (PI) on resarch releated to health and incarceration, across several projects. Working closely with the PI, the candiate will apply skills and knowledge of social science, incarceration and health, and community-based research to support data collection, analysis, and dissemenation for research projects focused on the health and healthcare of incarcerated people. Research projects will span a variety of healthcare conditions and sites in California, including hospitals and jails. Research will be primilarly qualitative and driven by social science theory and methodology. The candidate must have prior experience working with currently and formerly incarcearted people as parterners in research. The candidate will work closely with community-based researchers and help to coordiante community advisory council activities and research activities that take place outside of UCSF.
Department Overview
This research is housed in the Institute for Health and Aging and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the UCSF School of Nursing. The UCSF Institute for Health and Aging (IHA) was established as the Aging Health Policy Center by the School of Nursing in 1979 to foster multidisciplinary collaborative research, education, and public service in the fields of health policy and aging. In 1985, the Institute became an Organized Research Unit of the University of California and was re-designated as the IHA. Faculty at the Institute represent multiple disciplines and health professions, including sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, economics, public administration, public health, social work, nursing, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and law. The research mission of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences is 1) to advance knowledge in nursing health policy and in sociology through theoretically-informed, methodologically rigorous qualitative and quantitative research; and 2) to examine the broad dynamics of health, healing, and the production of knowledge and technologies and their applications in these domains with special focus on inequalities.