Statistician

The CDC Foundation seeks candidates for a Statistician position to conduct data management and statistical analyses for observational data from a multi-country study to evaluate the overall impact of Tuberculosis (TB) Preventive Treatment (TPT) on TB incidence and mortality. Despite an extensive body of literature that has demonstrated the efficacy of TPT and antiretroviral therapy (ART) in people with HIV (PLHIV), global scale-up of TPT did not occur globally until 2018, when the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) committed to providing TPT to all 14.6 million PLHIV in care. Since then, progress has been made in adopting and rapidly providing TPT to all eligible PLHIV. However, the overall impact of widescale TPT implementation in program settings on TB incidence and mortality is not known.

With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, this project is being implemented in six countries (Haiti, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Ukraine, Nigeria, and Kenya) and the goal is to describe TB incidence and all-cause mortality among PLHIV who have initiated TPT, while considering important individual and epidemiologic factors that could affect the outcome measures. All dat...