Associate Director of Clinical Sciences - Task Force for Global Health

Emory University•Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

This Associate Director of Clinical Sciences is essential to advancing CHAMPS program goals by providing scientific and clinical leadership across three operational areas: Pathology Services, Clinical Cause of Death Determination (DeCoDe), and Laboratory Science. The role involves directing quality assurance for tissue sampling and DeCoDe results, resolving data quality issues, and offering clinical guidance to sites. It also supports data analysis and manuscript development, leads special scientific studies, and prepares reports for leadership and donors. In addition to technical expertise, the role includes managing the CHAMPS clinical team, supervising staff, and supporting lab and diagnostic experts. The position tracks performance, fosters collaboration across units, and represents CHAMPS at scientific meetings. It plays a key leadership role in strategic planning and implementation, ensuring effective communication and coordination across the program office. Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) is an initiative of the Gates Foundation that started in 2015. The goal is to identify and track definitive causes of stillbirths and child deaths through robust community engagement, mortality surveillance, diagnostic and laboratory innovation, and rapid, open access to data. CHAMPS now operates in nine sites in African and South Asian countries with a high burden of child deaths. In these sites, CHAMPS teams quickly identify stillbirths and child deaths, and with the parents' consent, collect specimens that undergo thorough examination, review medical records, and interview families about what happened. The thousands of data elements from these investigations come together to provide an accurate pictureof each death.

Requirements

Medical degree with 5-8 years of clinical experience working in global health, infectious disease, or maternal and child health
Experience working with a surveillance or research program domestically or globally
Experience managing and working with medical and scientific staff in field sites

Nice To Haves

5-10 years of experience Experience working with an international multi-site network
Experience working in low-resource communities
Experience coordinating and managing technical and scientific workgroups
Solid data analysis and public health experience
Excellent writing and communication skills
Experience developing peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts
Ability to work across organizational teams and manage program priorities

Responsibilities

Directs and manages the quality assurance system for minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) and DeCoDe results for the CHAMPS network
Oversees and manages processes to resolve data quality issues, working in collaboration with sites, the Senior Epidemiologist, and the Informatics Business Unit Director
Provides clinical expertise and guidance to sites on the DeCoDe process and results
Provides clinical and analytic expertise to site scientists on data analysis and manuscript development
Leads and provides technical expertise and guidance on special scientific studies on the CHAMPS Platform
Coordinates and prepares documents, special reports, and special analyses for CHAMPS leadership and donors
Leads the CHAMPS clinical team that consists of the Provides oversight and support to lab and diagnostic experts on the team
Provides supervision and guidance to staff to troubleshoot and solve problems, enabling the team members to carry out their responsibilities and tasks in an efficient and effective manner.
Tracks progress and evaluates employee performance through reviews and sets key performance indicators to measure success
Works closely with other CHAMPS managers to promote collaborations and to keep lines of communication open with other Program Office Units and teams
Represents CHAMPS at scientific conferences and meetings
Participates in Site Strategy and Implementation Unit leadership meetings and other Program Office meetings