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Research Fellow – PhD or Postdoctoral, LMIC Family Planning
Surgo Health. Develop and lead a manuscript around an agreed priority research question .
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCyber Security
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Develop and lead a manuscript around an agreed priority research question
- Build on existing analyses and data, conducting additional analyses as needed
- Produce a submission-ready, publication-quality manuscript for a peer-reviewed journal
- Translate complex survey and causal-modeling findings into insights relevant to global health policy and program design
- Contribute to Surgo Health’s family planning research and thought leadership in LMIC contexts
- Complete analysis for one of three priority papers or propose an original research question
- Synthesize existing findings and/or generate new analyses on family planning behaviors and outcomes
- Apply rigorous quantitative and/or causal inference methods where appropriate
- Draft and revise the manuscript based on Surgo research team feedback
- Collaborate with Surgo research scientists on methodology and framing
- Produce clean, documented analysis code and supporting analytic materials where appropriate
- Attend twice-weekly check-ins with project leads
- Optionally present findings to senior leadership
- Meet milestones for scope, preliminary results, initial manuscript, revisions, and final submission-ready manuscript
- Retain academic independence while following Surgo’s authorship, review, and approval process
Requirements
What you’ll need- PhD candidate, postdoctoral researcher, or early-career researcher in a relevant field (e.g., public health, demography, economics, biostatistics, epidemiology, data science)
- Strong experience in quantitative analysis, survey data, and/or causal inference methods
- Demonstrated ability to produce rigorous, publication-quality research
- Experience in family planning and reproductive health in LMIC contexts is strongly preferred
- Experience in behavioral science and program implementation context is a plus
- Comfort working with large-scale, multi-country survey datasets
- One prior peer-reviewed publication is strongly preferred; otherwise a scientific writing sample
- CV or resume required
- Path A written response or Path B concept note, up to 1,000 words
- Contact information for two references
- Ability to work under a data use agreement and complete onboarding requirements such as cybersecurity training
- Submit a submission-ready manuscript and supporting analysis materials by the agreed deadline
Benefits
Comp & perks- Fantastic, fun and collaborative colleagues
- Opportunity to solve tough challenges in healthcare and global health
- Ability to be entrepreneurial, with tremendous opportunities for growth
- Access to de-identified, multi-country family planning survey data under a data use agreement
- Codebooks and methodological documentation
- Regular check-ins with Surgo’s research team for methodological guidance and feedback on drafts
- Methodological and analytic support
- Guidance on funder framing and positioning
- Co-authorship and publication support
- Opportunity to present progress to the broader research team
- Academic independence
- Weekly check-ins with Surgo project lead(s)
- Opportunity to join Surgo FP analytics team meetings
- Optional leadership exposure and presentations to senior leadership
- Opportunity for optional meetings with the Senior Director of Data Science & AI
- Co-first-author or first-author credit depending on contribution
- Publication support
- Global health and healthcare impact mission
- Equal opportunity and diversity commitment