• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Salary Range: $70,000 - $70,000

The Department of Medicine is seeking a Data Analyst to collaborate with Drs. Matthew Cummings and Max O’Donnell (Principal Investigators) and their team. The projects focus on: (1) investigating the clinical and molecular epidemiology of sepsis and related critical illnesses in Uganda, and (2) optimizing treatment strategies for drug-resistant tuberculosis/HIV in South Africa.

Responsibilities

• Assist in planning and coordinating research study activities, including the development of operating policies and procedures.
• Prepare applications for research ethics board approval.
• Support study planning and implementation, and maintain data collection and analysis systems in line with research protocols.
• Provide recommendations for statistical analyses and study design to the PIs and other research team members. This includes suggesting improvements to analytic code, study design protocols, and proposed analytic methods.
• Conduct statistical queries, analyses, and evaluations, including quality control assessments of ongoing studies.
• Generate summary reports, tables, and figures for PIs and research team members.
• Contribute to the preparation of presentations and manuscripts for publication, including writing sections on methods and analysis.
• Performs additional related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in education, training and experience, plus two years of related experience.
• Master’s degree or equivalent in epidemiology, biostatistics, or related field would substitute for experience.
• Experience in analyzing biomedical datasets.
• Excellent English language communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in the R and SAS programming languages.

Other Requirements

• Successful completion of applicable compliance and systems training requirements

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