[Remote] Volunteer Research Advisor for Hearing Health Demographic Data Strategy with Solar Ear

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Solar Ear is a global social enterprise focused on expanding access to hearing health in underserved communities. They are seeking a public health expert or audiologist to provide strategic advice on demographic data collection to ensure the dataset from hearing tests is meaningful and actionable for public health and hearing health sectors.

Responsibilities
• Provide guidance on which demographic indicators are most important to collect
• Help determine which core variables should accompany hearing test data (e.g., age, gender, location, socioeconomic indicators)
• Advise on whether additional health or contextual indicators should be included
• Share relevant public health or audiology best practices in hearing data collection
• Offer feedback on how to structure the dataset so it is useful to the broader hearing health sector

Skills
• Experience in Audiology
• Experience in Public health or epidemiology
• Experience in Hearing health research
• Experience in Health survey design or demographic indicators
• Experience in Global health or disability data
• Relevant expertise for academic researchers, clinicians, PhD students, or public health professionals

Company Overview
• Through a Brazilian Foundation, Instituto CEFAC plus a social marketing organization Legar, plus several University stakeholders and in conjunction with the youths who are deaf, from an NGO in Africa, Solar Ear manufactures, assembles and distributes, the first digital rechargeable hearing aid, a new solar battery charger and rechargeable hearing aid batteries which costs the same as disposable zinc air batteries, but lasts 2 to 3 years. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in São Paulo, Sao Paulo, BRA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is http://www.solarear.com.br/.

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