Research Scientist - Rollins School of Public Health

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Description

The research team of Dr. Aaron Siegler (Bio: https://sph.emory.edu/profile/faculty/aaron-siegler) in the Epidemiology Department at Emory University is seeking to hire a Research Scientist to work on several NIH-funded studies in HIV prevention epidemiology and digital health intervention research across local and/orinternational settings.

 

These studies include:

1. Establishing a PrEP Epidemiology, Modeling and Surveillance System (PREMISE), a study to support the development of consistent national HIV Pre-ExposureProphylaxis (PrEP) data to describe its patterns of use, and to understand which programs and policies are effective at facilitating PrEP uptake in the US.

2. Improving telePrEP initiation and retention outcomes in the US: The MISTR+ study, an NIH-funded series of clinical trials to support the development of low-touchinterventions (such as tailored messaging) and testing their effectiveness on PrEP initiation and retention outcomes

3. The Elección (Choice) Cohort: Developing and testing a scalable, platform-agnostic digital intervention in Peru, an NIH-funded clinical trial to improve understanding of the factors associated with HIV acquisition and PrEP uptake; and evaluate the preferences for and effectiveness of an adapted digital health messaging intervention (mHealth) among men in Peru.

 

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 Research Scientist will have the opportunity to work on multiple projects as described above, with work distribution depending on experience and interests. The Research Scientist may have the opportunity to contribute to other ongoing work in Dr. Siegler’s research lab within PRISM Health, develop independent research proposals, lead manuscripts from conceptualization to publication, and present scientific work at national/international scientific conferences.

For early-career researchers interested in advancing their public health career, the team is committed to providing mentorship to help identify and carve out an area of expertise in terms of topic areas to launch your career.

 

Key responsibilities:

• Work closely with Principal Investigator in all aspects of the research
• Contribute to quantitative research in HIV prevention.
• Design, conduct and lead quantitative studies
• Use statistical software to derive quantitative research findings
• Work as part of a team to develop scientific data
• Prepare and publish manuscripts as first author in peer-reviewed journals
• Contribute as co-author to manuscripts
• Contribute to data visualization output
• Contribute to project development efforts

The position will be based at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The initial appointment is for 2 years, and renewal is anticipated if performance is satisfactory and funds remain available.

 

Detailed Project Description:

 

PREMISETo reach Ending the Epidemic (ETE) targets, we will need consistent national HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) data to describe patterns of use and to understand which programs and policies are effective at facilitating PrEP uptake. This NIH-funded study aims to build on our history of developing public PrEP data resources and innovative metrics of PrEP use in PREMISE (PrEP Epidemiology, Modeling, and Surveillance), a collaborative and interdisciplinary group that will use national PrEP data, along with legal and policy coding, to inform the US HIV epidemic response. The study will conduct analyses regarding the scope of PrEP scaleup overtime and will perform analyses to explore the impact of different locality-specific programs and policies on PrEP use

 

MISTR+Our study (MISTR+) seeks to establish an evidence base for telehealth and improve health outcomes in terms of PrEP care initiation, retention and re-engagement for the over 100,000 users of this service by (1) developing a series of low-touch interventions based on existing evidence and new data analyses of telePrEP electronicrecords data, (2) testing interventions, and (3) enhancing our underst