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Managing Research Scientist, Maternal Morbidity - University of Washington | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Posted: January 4, 2022

# 18264

Opportunity Type: Job

Closing Date: open until filled

Description:

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME carries out its mission through a range of projects within different research areas including the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Local and Small Area Estimation; Future Health Scenarios; Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations. Our vision is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base so all people live long lives in full health.

IHME is committed to providing the evidence base necessary to help solve the world’s most important health problems. This requires creativity and innovation, which is cultivated by an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment that respects and appreciates differences, embraces collaboration, and invites the voices of all IHME team members.

IHME has an excellent opportunity for a Managing Research Scientist to join the Reproductive, Genitourinary, and Digestive Disease (RGUD) team. We are looking for someone ready to advance in their career in global maternal, genitourinary, and reproductive health research. In particular, we are looking for someone eager to develop novel data streams and methods to produce nuanced quantitative estimates of the health loss suffered by pregnant people when they experience nonfatal complications, and of the health loss attributable to risk factor exposure prior to or during pregnancy.

As a Managing Research Scientist, you will be a supervisor within the RGUD research team, contributing to research design and training and mentoring junior staff. IHME researchers analyze and produce key estimates for their assigned research team and will assess all available relevant quantitative data – including those on causes of death, epidemiology, quality of life, disability, and a range of determinants – from surveys, vital registration, censuses, peer-reviewed and gray literature, registries, and administrative records. Managing Research Scientists play a critical role in supervising and managing research team staff.
You will be integrally involved in producing, critiquing, improving, and disseminating results. You are someone who is capable of keeping your team on track to meet deadlines and research objectives. You have experience with the publication process, and at IHME, you will build out your portfolio with several peer-reviewed papers. You thrive in a collaborative work environment and are capable of working on multiple projects concurrently while meeting deadlines. You keep current of recent scientific, engineering, and technical advances and are able to translate these into your research. This position is contingent on project funding availability.

For more information or to apply, please visit the online job post: https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/ENG/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&jobhistory=1&szOrderID=200644

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