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Staff Service Fellow Position Announcement AHRQ

  • 1.  Staff Service Fellow Position Announcement AHRQ

    Posted 11-26-2021 10:25
    Exciting opportunity to join the Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement at AHRQ!
    This vacancy closes January 6, 2022
     
     
    The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. The Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement (CEPI) generates new knowledge, synthesizes evidence, translates science on what works in health and healthcare delivery, and catalyzes practice improvement across healthcare settings.
     
    AHRQ is hiring a Staff Service Fellow in the Division of Practice Improvement.  The Division of Practice Improvement explores how to facilitate practice transformation and improvement in diverse settings, tests innovative models of practice improvement, engages stakeholders and communities of learning for practice improvement.  The Division of Practice Improvement serves as a trusted resource of evidence and tools for methods, measures, and evaluation of practice improvement. 
     
    The successful candidate will promote the use of health services research, implementation science, decision sciences, organizational science, health equity, and human factors engineering to support effective practice, health system improvement and patient-centered interventions, such as shared decision-making, designed to improve the delivery of health care.  The incumbent will lead multidisciplinary teams of researchers to conceptualize, develop, execute, and evaluate dissemination and implementation initiatives to increase the uptake and use of PCOR findings to improve the quality of healthcare delivery to transform clinical practice.
     
    The candidate must have the education as specified in the USA Jobs Announcement.
    To apply, please visit: USA Jobs Announcement HHS-AHRQ-22-RG-11299644
     
     
    Michael I. Harrison, Ph.D.
    Sr. Social Scientist, Organizations & Systems
    Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement
    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    Phone: 301-427-1434
    5600 Fishers Lane , Room 7W16
    Rockville, MD 20857