[Hiring] Research Scientist @University of Washington

Role Description

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Scientist to join their Reproductive, Genitourinary and Digestive (RGUD) disease estimation team.

Reporting to the Acting Assistant Professor, the Research Scientist is responsible for driving high-impact global health research at IHME, analyzing quantitative data across causes of death, epidemiology, and social determinants to produce key estimates that inform global health policy. This role involves:

• Leading research design
• Mentoring junior staff
• Contributing to peer-reviewed publications
• Managing multiple projects in a collaborative environment

The ideal candidate is a motivated, deadline-driven researcher ready to advance their career by translating cutting-edge scientific advances into meaningful global health insights.

Our office is located in Seattle, Washington at the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health at the University of 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.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, statistics, biostatistics, math, economics, quantitative social sciences, or related discipline plus four years' related experience.
• 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 R.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills required, including track record of success in co-authorship 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.

Requirements

• MD or PhD in public health, epidemiology, statistics, biostatistics, math, economics, or quantitative social sciences plus two years’ experience preferred.
• Experience with hepatic or other digestive disease epidemiology strongly desired.
• Experience with endocrine, metabolic, or genitourinary disease epidemiology also somewhat desirable.
• Expertise in implementing statistical models in a cluster environment to conduct analyses of large datasets and produce large numbers of estimates.
• Experience applying rigorous approaches to model selection, testing, vetting and visualization.
• 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.

Benefits

• Pay Range Minimum: $110,052.00 annual
• Pay Range Maximum: $137,460.00 annual
• For information about benefits for this position, visit here .

Company Description

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research organization at the University of Washington (UW). 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:

• Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), Injuries, and Risk Factors
• Future Health Scenarios
• Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency
• Resource Tracking
• Impact Evaluations

The Reproductive, Genitourinary and Digestive (RGUD) disease estimation team maintains and advances quantitative understanding of the health impacts, levels and trends of digestive diseases (including liver conditions – cirrhosis, hepatitis, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease), gynecological and urinary disorders, sexually transmitted infections, and maternal disorders, and a subset of endocrine, metabolic, blood and immune disorders.