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This position is grant funded

School of Medicine

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Master’s student work opportunity (approximately 19 hours a week, starting May 2025) with Healthy Eating Research at the Duke Global Health Institute. The student will work remotely with Healthy Eating Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). This will be an opportunity for a high-caliber student to contribute to and learn more about policy and environmental approaches that have strong potential to promote healthy eating among children and their families, particularly those that are low-resource and/or members of racially or ethnically diverse populations. The individual should be organized, detail oriented, a strong communicator (written and verbal), and interested in public health or nutrition.

Responsibilities:

• Assist Healthy Eating Research staff with literature reviews and syntheses for purposes including, but not limited to, assessing gaps in the evidence base of environmental and policy strategies to increase access to healthy food, and to improve healthy eating in a variety of settings; providing evidence for public comments to proposed federal rules; and other research/policy purposes.
• Assist with preparing manuscripts and reports, as needed.
• Support Healthy Eating Research (and partner) meetings and presentations (virtual) by assisting with scheduling, creating and managing work plans, creating email and planning templates, developing PowerPoint slides, supporting day-of logistics, note-taking, reporting, and other communications as requested.
• Assist with tracking published literature on environmental and policy strategies to increase access to healthy food among Healthy Eating Research’s target populations.
• Assist with planning and implementing Healthy Eating Research’s annual grantee meeting.
• Assist with administrative tasks related to the management, implementation, and success tracking of research grants focused on promoting healthy eating (i.e., healthy food retail, early childhood, food and beverage marketing).
• Support Healthy Eating Research Staff in other program activities as requested, including (but not limited to): reviewing and editing Healthy Eating Research publications, newsletters, or blog posts, and disseminating research results through a variety of media channels including social media.
• Assist with special projects as requested by Healthy Eating Research staff.

Requirements/ Qualifications:

• Excellent organization skills and high attention to detail
• Experience conducting literature reviews and developing literature summaries
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Good command of Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Self-starter with a desire to learn about policy and environmental approaches to improving healthy eating in children and families
• Ability to follow established protocols
• A background in nutrition and/or public health preferred.

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