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Senior Vaccination Researcher

GiveWell· Research
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Remote$308kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior role leading research on vaccination grantmaking to direct cost-effective vaccination programs globally, directing tens of millions in annual grantmaking and shaping research agendas.

Responsibilities

  • - Create and lead ambitious research agendas related to GiveWell’s vaccination portfolios.
  • - Own grant investigations end-to-end from research question through grant recommendation.
  • - Communicate externally about work and mentor/advice to other researchers on the team.
  • - Shape a research agenda that combines empirical evidence review, cost-effectiveness modeling, discussions with subject matter experts, and judgment.
  • - Early-year work includes evaluating portfolio investments, prioritizing opportunities (surveillance, outbreak response, vaccine delivery tech), improving evaluation methods for vaccination programs, comparing cost-effectiveness models, and designing studies to estimate vaccine impact.

Qualifications

  • - A quantitatively oriented advanced degree (e.g., epidemiology, statistics, economics or related fields).
  • - Substantial professional experience in the vaccination landscape (epidemiological or health economics modeling, program implementation or funding).

Skills

Required:Quantitative analysisCost-effectiveness modelingResearch leadershipStakeholder communication

Benefits

  • - Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (US coverage for dependents).
  • - Four weeks of paid time off per year plus a one-week organization-wide summer break.
  • - 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
  • - Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships.
  • - Automatic 5% employer contribution to 403(b) retirement plan (US-based staff).
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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