Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative – Evaluation Division – Two positions

The Research Associate/Senior Research Associate will be a member of CHAI’s Boston-based Evaluation Division, whose mandate is to conduct programmatic impact evaluations to support and improve HIV prevention, care and treatment programs. This position will primarily focus on supporting and improving the monitoring and evaluation of CHAI’s Global Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) program, with support as needed to other evaluation needs within CHAI.
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The Monitoring and Evaluation Director will lead the Monitoring and Evaluation Division within CHAI, whose work focuses on the collection, management and use of data to support and improve access and quality of care delivered in HIV prevention and treatment programs.

Mentoring and Fellowship Program in LGBT Health

The Center for Population Research in LGBT Health is seeking applications from pre-doctoral and advanced masters’ students interested in careers in LGBT health research. The program connects students with expert faculty mentors from the national network of faculty of the Center. Mentors are closely matched to students’ research interests and will assist students who are developing or working on a research project in the study of LGBT health or same-sex families/households. An ideal candidate will have an interest in working with a mentor to better incorporate population health research methods and/or concerns in their projects.

The program is a great opportunity for students to augment the professional development and training provided by their home institutions and to learn more about LGBT population health research.

CSHOR Manager

The Center for Strategic HIV Operations Research (CSHOR) is a division of the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) that seeks to improve health systems and care through quantitative analysis. CSHOR supports and strengthens CHAI’s global activities – including negotiating lower prices for lifesaving antiretroviral and antimalarial treatments, working with governments to improve national health care systems, and generally seeking to improve access to crucial medicines – by analyzing complex problems involving resource planning and allocation, developing and applying pragmatic tools and models, and providing the analyses required to make difficult decisions in resource-limited settings.

Asthma – Boston

Position Title: Director, Boston Urban Asthma Coalition (BUAC) and Massachusetts Asthma Advocacy Partnership (MAAP)
Be part of a vibrant and growing organization that works directly with a diverse group of residents, community-based organizations, government agencies, medical professionals, and other individuals who are concerned with the factors that contribute to the rising prevalence of asthma within
vulnerable populations of Boston and other Massachusetts communities. Founded in 1997, the Boston Urban Asthma Coalition’s (BUAC) mission is to build a comprehensive and coordinated approach to asthma control and prevention in Boston. BUAC, a parent driven, grassroots level coalition of over 300 community partners, accomplishes this by promoting collaboration and community leadership to reduce racial, ethnic, and economic health disparities in asthma prevalence, asthma management, and asthma hazards in the home, school, and other environments.

Kellogg Health Scholars Program

The application deadline for the Kellogg Health Scholars Program’s 2009-2011 Call for Applications is on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 (11:59 p.m. Eastern). ONLY online applications are accepted, www.kellogghealthscholars.org.

Through this two-year postdoctoral program, scholars develop as leaders with research expertise to add to our knowledge about the nature of social disparities in health and interventions to reduce those disparities, the capacity to partner with communities in carrying out research and building policy advocacy and the skills to inform and support policy makers who seek to reduce and eliminate health disparities.

The program consists of two tracks and offers fellowships at eight training sites. The Community Track, which highlights community-based participatory research and relationships between academe, community and public health practice, has fellowships at Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, the University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The Multidisciplinary Track, which highlights a multidisciplinary approach to studying the social determinants of health disparities, has scholars training at Harvard University, the University of California-San Francisco, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Nine individuals will be selected for the 2009-2011 fellowship cycle – five in the Community Track and four in the Multidisciplinary Track. Each fellowship will provide a stipend of $62,000 in the first year and $63,000 in the second year, and an annual research fund and other benefits.

For specific tracks, contact:

Community Track
Saundra Bailey, voice 734-647-3065, fax: 734-936-0927 or email saundrab@umich.edu;

Multidisciplinary Track
Marie Briones-Jones, voice 202-387-2829, fax 202-387-2857 or email mbjones@cfah.org.

For more information on the Kellogg Health Scholars Program and the 2009 Call for Applications, visit www.kellogghealthscholars.org.

HIV Operations Research Analyst

The analyst will have responsibility for developing and running macro-level forecasts of HIV treatment resources, including drugs and laboratory supplies. The job will entail significant computer programming and data analysis, but also requires writing and communication with Clinton Foundation staff and our partners in the international health community and representation of the Clinton Foundation in international meetings.

Kellogg Health Scholars Program

The Kellogg Health Scholars Program, a two-year post-doctoral program, is accepting applications for its 2009-2011 cohort. The application deadline is Wednesday, December 3, 2008 (11:59 p.m. Eastern). ONLY online applications are accepted. To access the online application, please visit www.kellogghealthscholars.org.

Through this program, scholars develop as leaders with research expertise to add to our knowledge about the nature of social disparities in health and interventions to reduce those disparities, the capacity to partner with communities in carrying out research and building policy advocacy and the skills to inform and support policy makers who seek to reduce and eliminate health disparities.

Director, Technical Quality & Innovation

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is a nonprofit international health organization composed of nearly 1,300 people from more than 60 nations. Our mission is to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. Together with our partners, we are helping managers and leaders in developing countries to create stronger management systems that improve health services for the greatest health impact.

OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES: Lead and direct the development and implementation of frameworks, strategies and procedures for mainstreaming technical quality and innovation in CHP projects assuring quality of approaches through rigorous monitoring and evaluation to strengthen MSH’s project and program results, organizational impact, and improve health around the world….

Senior Advisor positions

The Senior Advisor has responsibility as the senior corporate liaison between JSI headquarters and a portfolio of bilateral field projects and plays a key role in JSI’s project support structure. The position reports to the Director, International Division, JSI/Boston.

JSI is recruiting qualified individuals to fill a number of new Senior Advisor positions, with a particular interest in candidates with experience in HIV & AIDS and in reproductive health/family planning/child health.

Statistician/Database Developer

The Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) is seeking a highly motivated individual with strong analytical, database development and communications skills to fill the position of Monitoring and Evaluation Statistician/Database Developer within CHAI’s Boston office.