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Public Health Expert

SME Careers · Idaho, United States · 2 mo 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.

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