
Adrian Gardner
Director
The IU Center for Global Health develops mutually beneficial partnerships across disciplines, schools and countries for the primary purpose of creating and implementing sustainable programs that improve health and human flourishing in underserved areas worldwide, and preparing a critical mass of health education and health research experts in these communities to become the next generation of local, national and global health leaders.
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At the IU Center for Global Health, our mission is to improve health and human flourishing in underserved areas worldwide.
This does not and cannot mean that we focus only on inequities between high and low-income countries, but also on the inequities that exist in our own country, the state of Indiana and our own neighborhoods. Too often, where an individual is born or their ethnic heritage determines their opportunities, health status and life expectancy. Social, economic and health equity is a key value of our Center, not only as we look outward to the global community, but also as we look inward to our own country, state and community.
The Department of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine seeks a strong academic leader for the Director of Division of Infectious Diseases at the Department of Medicine.
Among the critical uncertainties that hamper our ability to control the pandemic are the lack of knowledge and unanswered questions about immunity and the risk of reinfection among the previously infected. Our Aegis Study in the Indiana University School of Public Health - Bloomington (SPH-B) will address these questions by enrolling at least 2,100 subjects and conducting weekly measurements on each over one year. The objectives of this study are to assess the incidence of infection or re-infection among those with and without prior SARS-CoV-2 infection, and to evaluate biological and behavioral correlates of infection/reinfection and severity of infection. With SPH-B Dean, Dr. David Allison and SPH-B Adjunct Professor, Dr. Kevin Maki as the lead investigators, and with $15 M in funding secured, the study will provide insight into the degree, durability, and correlates of immunity induced by SARS-CoV-2 infection and subsequent recovery.
The Program Management Specialist is a professional contributor who can work competently, productively, and independently on complex tasks related to the Aegis COVID-19 immunity study. The study’s research team will be running large scale testing and survey-based data collection at multiple sites around the country and will need to ship specimens to laboratories for analyses. The Program Management Specialist will coordinate these and other efforts with the investigators.
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