NLResearch Consultant
Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP)Remote
Global health and wellbeingLead exposure and air qualityResearchData
Why this is on the board
LEEP uses a single model to decide which of more than 40 countries the money for reducing lead poisoning goes to. Lead does lasting damage to brain development, especially in children. Whoever checks the most uncertain assumptions in that model is therefore adjusting not one project but how the entire budget is divided, and through the public explanation probably also how other funders view lead.
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About the role
Refine and update a cost-effectiveness model guiding resource allocation for lead poisoning prevention programmes. - Update model with current programme costs, economic data, and demographic inputs across 40+ countries. - Conduct prioritised research on high-uncertainty assumptions affecting model results and lead exposure burden estimates. - Write rationales for material changes and draft communications for public cost-effectiveness explainers. - Requires experience with cost-effectiveness analy…
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