Research Specialist

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Colorado School of Public Health | Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity & Diabetes (LEAD) Center

Research Specialist

Position #: 837360 – Requisition #: 37310

Job Summary:

Join the Colorado School of Public Health as a part-time Research Specialist (Research Services Entry Professional). This position is a key member of the school’s Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity & Diabetes (LEAD) Center and will be responsible for study participant recruitment and data collection for one or more LEAD Center studies. 

This position requires an individual with an interest in public health research in child and adolescent populations, as well as data collection skills (i.e., interviewing study participants, administering questionnaires), the ability to be self-directed, strong attention to detail, and excellent communication and interpersonal skills. 

Key Responsibilities:

Collect physical measurements of study participants, including weight, height, and other diet and physical activity measures.

Administer health-related questionnaires to study participants.

Process and ship blood samples to labs for analysis.

Collect and enter data from visit forms in REDCap.

Document, organize, and synthesize data collection procedures in the manual of operations.

Coordinate scheduling and logistics of study visits and program events.

Participate in study-related travel and offsite clinic events as needed. 

This is a part-time (0.5 FTE) position that reports directly to the Project Manager. 

Work Location:

Why Join Us:

Onsite – This role is expected to work onsite and is located on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO. 

The Colorado School of Public Health (ColoradoSPH) is a unique and collaborative graduate school that combines the collective expertise of three Colorado universities: the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz) in Aurora, Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins, and the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) in Greeley, Colorado. The Colorado School of Public Health is the only accredited school of public health in the Rocky Mountain Region, attracting top tier faculty and students from across the country, and providing a vital contribution towards ensuring our region’s health and wellbeing. The school’s faculty, staff, and students work together to share knowledge and conduct innovative research and community service to actively address public health issues including chronic disease, access to healthcare, environmental threats, emerging infectious diseases, costly injuries, and more.

The LEAD Center is a groundbreaking research center that investigates and seeks to understand the developmental origins of health and disease, particularly obesity, type 1 and type 2 diabetes and the complex interplay of environmental exposures, genetic and epigenetic processes in critical developmental periods across the lifecourse. LEAD scientists work with data from multiple human cohort studies housed within the Center (Healthy Start, Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes