Research Scientist (CHAMPS) - Rollins School of Public Health

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The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance network, or CHAMPS, is a multi-country network that conducts prospective community and healthcare center mortality surveillance in regions with disproportionately high burden of mortality in children aged <5 years. CHAMPS currently has ongoing surveillance activities at nine sites in South Africa, Mali, Mozambique, Kenya, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, and Nigeria. Malnutrition, both protein-energy malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, contribute to child mortality. The Assessing the Role of Malnutrition in CHAMPS (ARM-CHAMPS) sub-study aims to assess the role of malnutrition on child mortality and adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes.

 

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Develops biochemical and cell-based assays, with the use of such assays to perform high throughput screening of small molecule libraries.
• Develops and executes lower throughput biochemical or cell-based assays for structural optimization of hit compounds.
• Hands-on bench scientist.
• Communicates with biomedical investigators and medicinal chemists.
• May supervise staff.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.

ADDITIONAL JOB DETAILS:

• The Nutrition Research Scientist is responsible for managing and leading a wide array of nutrition data collection, data management, quality improvement, and analytical tasks for CHAMPS.

Primary duties include:

• Serve as Study Director for ARM-CHAMPS study, including overall project management, including data collection, management, analysis, and reporting.
• In partnership with CHAMPS leadership and scientific oversight team, develop and implement priority nutrition-related research questions for CHAMPS.
• Monitor and evaluate nutrition-related data collected in CHAMPS MITS and pregnancy surveillance and provide timely feedback to sites for improvement in data quality.
• Develop and present routine reporting on nutrition inputs and outcomes to donors, partners, and leadership.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree and 7 years of related experience or equivalent combination of experience, education and training.
• Strong technical background.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• PhD in nutrition, epidemiology, or related fields with a strong background in data management and analysis.
• Experience with managing complex data sets. 
• Extensive experience working in global health in low resource communities in Africa and South Asia
• Experience working with surveillance or research networks in globally or domestically.
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
• Experience publishing in peer-reviewed journals
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience working in teams and collaborating with team members.
• Demonstrated experience using statistical software (e.g., R, SAS)
• Experience with international travel in low resource communities
• Respect for diversity, equity, and inclusion

NOTE: This role will be granted the opportunity to work from home regularly but must be able to commute to Emory University location as needed and at times, on short notice.  Emory reserves the right to change this status with notice to employee.

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