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The IU Center for Global Health Equity is seeking a senior research scientist to serve as Director of Research for the Center and co-Director of Research for the AMPATH Kenya Research Program. This is a key position within the administration of research for both the IUCGHE and the AMPATH Kenya Partnership, the latter being a collaboration between Indiana University and US, Canadian and European partners (AMPATH Consortium), Moi University and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya. We are seeking an active investigator with sufficient experience and maturity to work collaboratively for and within the IUCGHE and the AMPATH Consortium that conducts research to advance the health of people in low-resourced communities. In partnership with AMPATH Kenya’s Co-Director of Research, the North American Director of Research establishes policies and practices that assure high-quality research and research productivity with processes that comply with the policies of major extramural research sponsors and collaborating universities. The Director is expected to commit 30-35% of professional work life to this administrative work and also conduct research in a personal portfolio.

The role of the team lead is to be an ambassador, driver, and guide of the clinical and educational missions in Internal Medicine between the North American, European and Kenyan institutions of the AMPATH consortium. The team lead resides in Eldoret, Kenya full-time, and their primary mission is to build capacity through workforce development and contribute to the delivery of high-quality care. They accomplish this by working closely with Kenyan, North American and European faculty, residents, and medical students to support a positive learning environment that is respectful to all.

This position is supported by the Indiana University Center for Global Health Equity (IUCGHE) and Indiana University (IU) Department of Medicine. The team lead will receive an appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Medicine at IU School of Medicine (IUSM) and a Visiting Lecturer in Internal Medicine at Moi University School of Medicine (MUSOM).

EA IeDEA is an NIH funded grant in its 18th year with an annual budget in excess of $4 million focused on HIV/AIDS and related conditions. It is the 5th-largest grant in the IU School of Medicine. EA IeDEA represents a consortium of university and health system partners that use retrospective and prospective data collection to provide answers to the questions that clinicians, programs, and ministries of health consider fundamental to the evolution and sustainability of their long-term HIV care and treatment strategies. Our grant collaborators are in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Europe and North America.