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Description
Our laboratory is located within the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Rollins is ranked No. 2 among schools and programs of public health by U.S.News & World Report (2026) and No. 4 among schools of public health in NIH funding (Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, 2025). The Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health houses researchers with interests spanning mechanistic and computational toxicology, genomics, the developmental origins of disease, airpollution, climate change, water, sanitation and hygiene, and environmental epidemiology. Within the department is Emory’s HERCULES Exposome Research Center, an NIEHS P30 Environmental Health Sciences Core Center and the first exposome research center in the US. The department’s team-science approach providesopportunities to co-author publications with leading collaborators. We support career development through workshops on the exposome, mass spectrometry, and analytical chemistry, and through travel to national and international conferences. Work-related experience will be considered in determining level and salary.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Under limited supervision, uses a basic knowledge of public health principles to analyze, develop, implement, and promote new and creative strategies and solutions to address public health issues and challenges.
Addresses public health issues by providing education, technical assistance, advocacy, public awareness, and research.
Works with programs or studies designed to evaluate the prevalence or surveillance of public health issues and the effectiveness of targeted interventions.
May provide technical assistance to organizations to include presentations, web-based resources, strategies, and educational forums to address specific public health issues.
May work with clinical study sites on patient recruitment and data collection standards. Assists with data collection and data analysis.
Contributes to proposals, protocols, data analysis plans, reports, manuscripts, and presentation of study findings.
May assist in designing, developing, and conducting targeted training initiatives.
May collaborate with external organizations to develop action plans and goals to achieve specific objectives.
Performs related responsibilities as required.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
A master's degree in Public Health, a master of science degree in Public Health or Health Education, OR a master's degree in Development Practice OR a master's degree in another field and one year of public health experience.
ADDITIONAL JOB DETAILS:
The Comprehensive Laboratory for Untargeted Exposome Science (CLUES) in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Emory University seeks applications for a Public Health Program Associate to lead the laboratory’s gas chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry (GC-HRMS) team. CLUES measures environmental chemicals, micro- and nanoplastics, and metabolites in human biofluids, tissues, and other matrices for large population studies of howexposures affect health. Our projects examine environmental contributors to cancer, neurodevelopmental outcomes, and metabolic disease, and develop methods tomeasure exposures of emerging concern, including microplastics, PFAS, and persistent organic pollutants.
Working under limited supervision from the laboratory director, the Program Associate will oversee daily GC-HRMS research operations, including pyrolysis GC-HRMS methods for micro- and nanoplastics. They will apply public health and exposure science principles to develop and carry out analytical strategies for collaborating studies, help collect, analyze, and report study data, and train new team members. The position includes regular work with collaborating…