Public Health Expert
SME Careers · Idaho, United States · 2 wk ago
RemoteRemoteResearchContract
Key Responsibilities
- Create detailed prompts and gold-standard answers across epidemiology, public health practice, policy, prevention, and risk communication topics.
- Evaluate and rank AI responses to improve correctness, clarity, contextual relevance, and scientific rigor.
- Test AI outputs for inaccuracies, misleading evidence interpretation, unsafe recommendations, and bias; validate reliability across populations and settings.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Public Health (MPH preferred), Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Policy, Global Health, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
- 5+ years of professional experience in public health (government/public sector, NGOs, academia, healthcare systems, global health, consulting, or similar).
- Confident in public health reasoning (problem framing, causal thinking, bias/confounding awareness, risk stratification, and prioritization).
- Strong understanding of disease processes at the population level, prevention strategies, screening concepts, vaccination principles, and health behavior frameworks.
- Excellent attention to detail when fact-checking and identifying unsafe assumptions, misleading causal claims, incorrect interpretation of statistics, or inappropriate recommendations; minimum C1 English proficiency.
- Comfortable evaluating answers for internal consistency (denominators, rates vs risks, time horizons, surveillance definitions, and uncertainty).
- Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.
- Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, guideline work, systematic reviews, program evaluation, policy analysis, or editorial QA is strongly preferred.
Qualifications
Your profile should include:
- A Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Public Health (MPH preferred), Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Health Policy, Global Health, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
- At least 5 years of professional experience in public health (government/public sector, NGOs, academia, healthcare systems, global health, consulting, or similar).
- Experience with public health reasoning, including problem framing, causal thinking, bias/confounding awareness, risk stratification, and prioritization.
- A strong understanding of disease processes at the population level, prevention strategies, screening concepts, vaccination principles, and health behavior frameworks.
- An excellent attention to detail when fact-checking and identifying unsafe assumptions, misleading causal claims, incorrect interpretation of statistics, or inappropriate recommendations; minimum C1 English proficiency.
- The ability to evaluate answers for internal consistency (denominators, rates vs risks, time horizons, surveillance definitions, and uncertainty).
- A reliable, self-directed, and consistent quality delivery in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.
- Experience with AI data training/annotation, guideline work, systematic reviews, program evaluation, policy analysis, or editorial QA is beneficial.