Graduate Student Data Analysts, UNAIDS/UW
Posted: 7/23/2021 (Employment)
The Joint United Nations AIDS Programme (UNAIDS, Geneva, Switzerland) supports countries to produce key epidemiological data every year and requests countries to submit their most recent programmatic data through the Global AIDS Monitoring system. There are a number of complementary analyses to expand the use of those data or to improve the modelled estimates.
In cooperation with the UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), UNAIDS is providing remote data analysis opportunities to UW graduate students to contribute to important short-term research projects, benefit from UNAIDS and UW mentorship and training, build international networks, and develop transferable skills. Selected students will be assigned a project, a UNAIDS mentor, and UW faculty advisor. Preference will be given to students who have experience with HIV research and quantitative data analysis, as well as past experience working on teams with remote colleagues. The deliverables for these projects would be brief 5-10 page summaries of the findings of the project with relevant informative graphics or tables as necessary. Any results or products developed for these projects are public goods. UNAIDS reserves the rights to include them in their reports. Students reserve the right to further pursue and publish results for their own purposes.
Current projects offered include:
Medical male circumcision: Triangulating self-reported age of medical male circumcision from population-based surveys with programme data
Supporting country teams to understand the causes of new child infections using the Spectrum stacked bar tool
Barriers to reaching the first 95: Data analysis and synthesis on access to and uptake of HIV testing services
National Population Size Estimates of Sex Workers, Men who Have Sex with Men, People who Inject Drugs and Transgender People
Association between punitive laws and reported key population size estimates at country level.
Joint UNAIDS-IAPAC Fast-Track Cities Project: analysis and synthesis of data on the HIV epidemic and response in 15 participating cities
If interested, please contact Danielle Terrill (terrill1@uw.edu) with a cover letter, resume/CV, availability, and which project(s) you are interested in by August 16, 2021.
Deadline: 08/16/2021