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1. Increase global capacity to prevent and respond to high consequence biological threats Program Officer, Global Biological Policy Nuclear Threat Initiative Washington, DC More details… |
2. Improve models of COVID-19’s spread and economic impacts Software Engineer, COVID-19 Modeling Johns Hopkins University, Department of Epidemiology Baltimore, MD More details… |
3. Help a new remittances company scale its services Software Engineer Taptap Send New York, NY More details… |
4. Figure out how city governments can remain effective despite remote work and the other pressures from the COVID-19 pandemic Fellow, COVID-19 Media and Digital Strategies Bloomberg Philanthropies New York, NY More details… |
5. Contribute to the Gates Foundation’s investments and partnerships in innovative vaccines Deputy Director, Clinical Next Generation Vaccines Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Seattle, WA More details… |
6. Investigate AI governance and its impacts as a research assistant for the ‘Ethics Theme Lead’ Ethics Research Assistant Alan Turing Institute London, UK More details… |
7. Lead a cash transfer non-profit’s operations, including tackling new challenges like contactless post-COVID approaches, and expansion into new markets Chief Operations Officer, International GiveDirectly Various countries More details… |
8. Conduct research on national and global health law Associate, National & Global Health Law & Policy Research Georgetown University, Institute for National and Global Health Law Washington, DC More details… |
9. Bring computational skills to the science grant-making team Science Program Officer, Computational Biology Chan Zuckerberg Initiative San Francisco bay area More details… |
10. Contribute to a diverse portfolio of global health and health security projects Research Associate, Pandemic Preparedness and Deliberate Biological Events Georgetown, Center for Global Health Science and Security Washington, DC More details… |
11. Improve patient care by ‘making the world’s health data useful’ Strategy Associate Verily, Alphabet San Francisco bay area More details… |
12. Participate in discussion of scientific issues related to emerging microbial threats Associate Program Officer, Forum on Microbial Threats US National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC More details… |
13. Build new products and features for a payments company focused on emerging markets Product Manager Segovia London, UK More details… |
14. Join a team of ten trying to uncover new problems that are neglected, important and tractable Researcher (multiple positions) Rethink Priorities Remote More details… |