RESEARCHER, ECONOMIC INDICATORS

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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; Future Health Scenarios; Costs and Cost Effectiveness; 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.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) has an outstanding opportunity for a Researcher to join our Resource Tracking Economic Indicators team.

We are looking for someone who will help drive forward our research, which focuses on estimating and forecasting health spending and gross domestic product for 204 countries and nearly 300 subnational geographies. This work is fast-paced and highly quantitative. Across IHME, researchers analyze and produce key estimates for their assigned research team. This work will focus on using data from household and administrative surveys, economic databases, published literature, and internal team outputs. Using established modeling tools and through creation of novel code, researchers incorporate all relevant data to produce the most up-to-date and scientifically credible results. Researchers are integrally involved in producing, critiquing, improving, and disseminating results. In addition, researchers work closely with senior research leads and external collaborators and take part in the intellectual exchange about how to improve upon and disseminate the results. Through this, Researchers are expected to interact successfully with a wide range of internal and some external partners, and to describe complex concepts and materials concisely. Overall, Researchers are critical members of agile, dynamic research teams.

The Resource Tracking Economic Indicators research team develops research intended to describe and assess health spending and economic activity. Previous research from this team has been published in a wide set of journals, presented around the globe and online through an interactive visualization. The policy-relevant research produced by this team will be extended to include climate and COVID-sensitive economic indicator estimates in order to gain knowledge about changes in health spending and spending disparities across countries. The team’s Researcher will work closely with the faculty lead, another Researcher, and a team of data specialists and data analysts. This position is contingent on project funding.

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