Research Assistant (Part-time) - Infectious Diseases

Job description

Scheduled Hours 19 Position Summary: As a Research Assistant with the Light Institute for Global Health and Transformation, you will gain hands-on experience across implementation science research, public health clinical trials, and the day-to-day operations that keep high-impact projects moving. This role offers a unique mix of research, field, and administrative exposure—from contributing to multiyear studies on uptake, scale-up, adaptation, and sustainment of evidence-based interventions to supporting grant management, logistics, and project coordination. Candidates looking to build both rigorous research skills and practical experience in global and public health, this is a rare opportunity to learn how meaningful public health work is carried from idea to implementation. Assists with research study, experiments, preparation of material, and documentation. Job Description: Primary Duties & Responsibilities: - Conducts research experiments and assays. - Evaluates research results, reports findings and discusses project outcomes with staff involved. - Performs data entry and maintains data files on research. - Coordinates tissue cultures, reagents, probe tests, etc. - Complies wi...