Study Weight Loss with the National Institutes of Health [Research Assistant]

Healthy Body Healthy U
Professor Dr. Melissa Napolitano, Dr. Loretta DiPietro, Dr. Sam Simmons
The Project: The Healthy Body Healthy U project is a randomized control trial funded by the National Institutes of Health. The purpose of the study is to determine the most effective way to help college students lose and maintain a healthy body weight. We will be enrolling 450 students across two sites (the partner site is University of Massachusetts Boston), and the program is 18 months long. We will be delivering all of the intervention content via Facebook groups, text messages, and YouTube videos. There are three treatment arms for the study, two geared specifically towards delivering weight loss information, and the third group is delivering information about the Three Pillars of Health- body, mind, and energy, in order to maintain a healthy body weight. The goal is to determine what type and how much information will be most effective for weight and other risk factors for diabetes and heart disease.  
Research Assistant Tasks: The responsibilities of the research assistant will include:
1) Recruitment of study participants across GWU campus (e.g. attending recruitment events, hanging flyers and posters across campus, initiating connections to campus student organizations and teams)
2) Content (e.g. formatting materials, filming videos, editing content, posting content)
3) Tracking (e.g. recruitment numbers, ordering and maintaining an inventory of recruitment supplies and incentives, participant progress and engagement)
4) Data (e.g. data entry, database management, organizing participant records, calibrating and downloading accelerometer data)
5) Attend regular meetings with research team
6) Other duties as specified by the needs of the project, the director, and program coordinator.

Time Commitment: 10 or more hours per week.
Credit Hour Options: 3
Application Requirements: If interested, please send your resume and cover letter to Meghan Mavredes, project coordinator, at the below email. Thank you!
Contact Email: hbhu@gwu.edu