A Research Associate position, focused on data analysis, is available in the Department of Global Health with Dr. Emily Smith’s research group. The research group focuses on how nutrition and infection shape healthy birth, growth, and development across the lifecycle.
This Research Associate will independently carry out research activities to support high quality, harmonized data collection and analysis on an international, multi-site study to characterize risk factors for adverse maternal and child health outcomes in Kenya, India, and Pakistan.
Using a certain degree of creativity and latitude, the core responsibilities of
this position include managing research activities, analyzing data, and interpreting results. This person in this role must be familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the field of epidemiology and global health.
Responsibilities Include:
- Developing data collection forms
- Develop standard operating procedures and related statistical analysis codes for site-specific data quality assessment and cleaning
- Develop and run data analysis for quarterly reports to funding agency
- Analyze data based on statistical analysis plan under general guidance from the Principal Investigator
Performs other related duties as assigned. The omission of specific duties does not preclude the supervisor from assigning duties that are logically related to the position.
The Research Associate will be supervised day-to-day by the PI (Dr. Emily Smith). The initial appointment is for one year, with opportunity for an extension after successful completion of the one year.