Req #: 243473 Department: INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH METRICS AND EVALUATION Appointing Department Web Address: http://healthdata.org Job Location Detail: Office is located in Seattle, Washington. This position is eligible to work fully remote in the US. Posting Date: 02/13/2025 Closing Info: Closes On 02/23/2025 Salary: $7,426 - $8,699 per month Shift: First Shift Notes: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here. (https://hr.uw.edu/benefits/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/02/benefits-professional-staff-librarians-academic-contract-covered-exempt-20250130-a11y.pdf) As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world. UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center at the University of Washington. Its mission is to monitor global health conditions and health systems, as well as to evaluate interventions, initiatives, and reforms. IHME carries out a range of projects within different research areas including: the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors; Future Health Scenarios; Costs and Cost Effectiveness; Local Burden of Disease; Resource Tracking; and Impact Evaluations. The aim is to provide policymakers, donors, and researchers with the highest-quality quantitative evidence base to make decisions that achieve better health. IHME has an excellent opportunity for a **Research Scientist** to join our Causes of Death, Shocks Intermediate Causes and Antimicrobial Resistance team for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study. We are looking for someone ready to advance in their career in global health research. As a Research Scientist, you will be integrally involved in producing, critiquing, improving, and disseminating GBD and adjacent results, with an emphasis on the burden of antimicrobial resistance. 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 and epidemiology– from surveys, vital registration, censuses, literature, registries, microbiology, laboratory and administrative records. Additionally, you will provide leadership on our team by contributing to research design, training, and mentoring junior staff. You are someone that is capable of keeping 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. **DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES** + Exhibit command of multiple cause of death data and modeling, methodology and its components. + Exhibit command of linked hospital and outpatient data sets, modeling, methodology and its components. + Exhibit command of the antimicrobial resistance project through data sources, processing and modeling. + Independently carry out quantitative analyses and participate in reciprocal research projects. Interpret and vet results from junior staff, formulate conclusions and inform team leaders. + Develop, quality check, and distribute complex data sets to be used in epidemiological and statistical analyses. + Develop and implement new computational and statistical methods. Create, test, and use relevant computer code (Python, R or equivalent). Maintain, modify, and execute analytic machinery that results. + Draft presentations, manuscripts, and contribute to funding proposals. Lead and co-author scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. + Maintain scientific awareness and intellectual agility with data, methods, and analytic techniques. + Participate in hiring and training, leading workflow, priority setting, critiquing work and establishing quality standards, and providing mentorship to more junior employees. + Provide ideas and content for the development of internal trainings. Teach established trainings. + Contribute to research design. + Other duties as assigned that fall within reasonable scope of research team. **MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS** + Master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, statistics, biostatistics, math, economics, quantitative social sciences, or related discipline plus four years' related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience. **Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.** **ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS** + Growing peer network where sought out as having solid command of engineering/technical areas, a given disease, risk, key indicator, relevant methodological area, and the related data sources and scientific underpinnings. + Excellent analytic, critical thinking, and quantitative skills. + Results- and detail-oriented individual who can initiate and complete tasks under tight deadlines and changing priorities both independently and in a team environment. Flexibility with hours and workload is key. + Experience devising and executing statistical modeling techniques. + Demonstrated ability to quickly recognize problems in results and identify root causes in data, methods, and code. + Ease in designing, executing, and troubleshooting code in Python. + Excellent written and oral communication skills required, including track record of success in coauthorship on multiple scientific papers, presenting results, and representing research at meetings. + Demonstrated ability to contribute to and sustain collaborations with external research teams. + Experience in working with large data sets, including devising strategies for reliable data management for large data sets, computationally efficient modeling techniques to use such data sets, and critical evaluation of highly multidimensional model outputs that result from such work. + Ability to work both independently and in collaboration with a team. + A long-term interest in a research scientist position contributing to the overall mission of our research. + A commitment to working alongside others at IHME to illuminate the health impacts of systemic racism and to work within IHME to make our organization more diverse and inclusive. See IHME’s DEI statement here: https://www.healthdata.org/about/dei . **DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS** + MD or PhD in public health, epidemiology, statistics, biostatistics, math, economics, or quantitative social sciences plus two years’ experience preferred. + Experience with machine learning, data mining, and analytic techniques. + Experience mentoring and developing junior employees on soft and technical skills. + Experience with project management methods. + Peer-reviewed publication record. **CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT** + Weekend and evening work sometimes required. + This position is open to anyone authorized to work in the US. + Working internationally is only allowed for IHME sponsored work that requires in-country participation. + Office is located in Seattle, Washington. This position is eligible to work fully remote in the US; work schedule required to overlap 50% of IHME office hours, between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Pacific Time as agreed upon between employee and supervisor. **Application Process:** The application process may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment, you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are access ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed. University of Washington is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.