IHME has an excellent opportunity for a Managing Research Scientist to join the Resource Tracking Alzheimer’s and Dementia research team. We are looking for someone ready to advance in their career in global health research. Across IHME, Managing Research Scientists lead as supervisors on research teams by contributing to research design and training and mentoring junior staff. IHME Managing Research Scientists 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, and a range of determinants such as education and income – from surveys, vital registration, censuses, literature, registries, and administrative records. Managing Research Scientists play a critical role in supervising and managing research team staff.

Research Scientists are integrally involved in producing, critiquing, improving, and disseminating results. They must be capable of keeping their team on track to meet deadlines and research objectives. We are looking for someone with experience with the publication process, and who will build out their portfolio at IHME with several peer-reviewed papers. We are looking for individuals who keep current of recent scientific, engineering, and technical advances and are able to translate these into their research.

The Resource Tracking Alzheimer’s and Dementia research team develops research intended to estimate health care spending for specific health conditions disaggregated by source for 195 countries and territories. Research from this team has been published in a wide set of journals, presented around the globe, and offered online through an interactive visualization. The research produced by this team will extend existing global spending estimates on Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias; conduct a deeper dive into both formal and informal costs of dementia in the US; and conduct data collection on global spending on these diseases. This position will be responsible for a number of smaller, innovative projects focused on methodological developments to improve the spending estimation of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. This position is contingent on project funding availability, which currently exists through at least January 2023.

Responsibilities:

• Supervise staff, to include hiring and training; leading workflow; priority setting; critiquing work and establishing quality standards; conducting regular performance assessments; and providing mentorship and professional development for employees.
• Have a 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.
• Exhibit command of input data used by the team and the quantitative Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias assigned research area methods used to harmonize and combine data from a wide variety of data sources, with a focus on estimation and its components. Independently carry out quantitative analyses and participate in reciprocal research projects. Interpret and vet results from junior staff, formulate conclusions, provide feedback, and inform team leaders.
• Develop and implement new computational and statistical methods. Create, test, and use relevant computer code (R or Python).
• Draft presentations and 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.
• Provide ideas, content, and support for the development of internal trainings, for your team, IHME, and external audiences. Teach established trainings.
• Contribute to research design.
• Other duties as assigned that fall within reasonable scope of research team.