Researcher - Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Tufts University | |
United States, Massachusetts, Boston | |
150 Harrison Avenue (Show on map) | |
April 25, 2024 | |
Overview
The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, established in 1981, is among the world's leading graduate and professional schools of nutrition. Its mission is to improve the nutritional well-being of people worldwide through the creation of new knowledge, its application and dissemination, and the education and training of future leaders in the field. Faculty, students and staff at the school include physicians and other health practitioners, biomedical and clinical scientists, nutritionists and epidemiologists, agricultural and environmental scientists, economists, psychologists and others whose work on food and nutrition contributes to the sustainable, equitable development of human societies. What You'll Do The Researcher position offers an exciting and challenging opportunity to help improve food and nutrition policy by contributing to the valuable base of scientific research around least-cost diets and food access in the United States and methods and metrics for food systems change in low- and middle-income countries around the world. The Researcher will manage two multi-year grant funded research projects operated out of the Friedman School: 1) The Thrifty Food Plan funded by the United States Department of Agriculture The Thrifty Food Plan is one of four food plans USDA develops that estimates the cost of a healthy diet across various price points - the Thrifty, Low-Cost, Moderate-Cost and Liberal Food Plans. 2) The Innovative Methods and Metrics for Advancing Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. IMMANA deploys a package of competitive research funding calls, career development fellowships, and a multi-disciplinary global network - the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy - to stimulate the generation, validation, and sharing of cutting-edge methods, metrics and tools to solve acute problems in malnutrition and health. In consultation with each project's principal investigator, the Researcher will manage ongoing research aims and develop and pursue novel research questions related to the goals of each project. Duties will include, but are not limited to: managing research activities and planning; liaising between relevant stakeholder groups of each research project; conducting literature reviews; providing technical support and data analysis for ongoing research aims; developing novel research questions; pursuing research aims in collaboration with or independently of other project researchers; writing manuscripts of research for publication in academic journals; and disseminating research findings at conferences or online events. Essential Functions include: Research Support: Thrifty Food Plan
Research Support: IMMANA
Operations
Dissemination of results
What We're Looking For Basic Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications:
Pay Range Minimum $57,900.00, Midpoint $72,450.00, Maximum $87,000.00 Salary is based on related experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect pay between the minimum and midpoint of the range. |