[change] Medic Mobile is hiring a Senior Researcher! Open source, human-centered design & global health

[Isaac Holeman]

Hi Change List,
Medic Mobile is looking to hire a Senior Researcher! If you know someone who 
might be interested, I’d appreciate it if you would forward this message. 
Details below. 
Cheers,Isaac

Senior Researcher Job PostingMedic Mobile (MM) designs, delivers, and supports 
software for health workers providing care in the hardest-to-reach communities. 
We envision a world where community health workers (CHWs) are supported as they 
provide care for their neighbors. MM and our partners have proven that 
high-quality care can be provided through integrated, community-based health 
systems. Our software is free, open-source, and deployed at scale in the last 
mile of healthcare. At the end of 2017, Medic Mobile was supporting a network 
of more than 20,000 frontline health workers; we aim to support health workers 
serving 100 million people between 2017 and 2021. 
We are seeking a Senior Researcher to lead key in-house studies and coordinate 
strategic research partnerships with University-based labs and other 
institutions. This role calls for demonstrated research skills, a high 
technical aptitude and the ability to conceptualize and execute studies of 
strategic significance for Medic Mobile and for our mission of global health 
equity. Our research archive includes more than 50 publications, including 32 
peer-reviewed articles and a range of technical reports and white papers. The 
Senior Researcher will report to Medic Mobile co-founder and Research Lead 
Isaac Holeman. This role is location-flexible and may entail up to 30% travel 
to research sites; preference may be given to candidates co-located with Medic 
Mobile staff in Seattle, San Francisco, Nairobi or Kathmandu. We are already 
reviewing applications and the position will remain open until it is filled. 
More about research at Medic Mobile: 
http://medicmobile.org/research-impact-reportsThe full job posting: 
http://medicmobile.org/careers


Isaac Holeman, PhDMedic Mobile co-founder & research 
leadTwitter @Medic @isaacholeman

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[change] Fwd: [Researchers] Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good at EC '18

[Matthew Johnson]

Of possible interest to folks with work on economics.

-- Forwarded message -
From: Kira Goldner 
Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:32
Subject: [Researchers] Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Mechanism Design
for Social Good at EC '18
To: , 
CC: Rediet Abebe 


Hi everyone,

I'm co-organizing the second workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good
 this year at EC
, the primary conference in the EconCS community
(the intersection of theoretical CS and economics).

We're seeking paper submissions broadly.  If you have *research with a
social good component *that might inspire *work on algorithms and
incentives schemes*, we would love to have your submission!

Examples include: work on the developing world, privacy, or really any
domain where algorithms can be used to better align incentives and the
objective is to improve societal good or mitigate inequality.  See the call
for papers for more examples.

Alternatively, *if you're on any email lists where this might be relevant,
I would appreciate your distributing the call for papers.*  (This might
include in communities like computer science, economics, operations
research, sociology, public policy, etc.)

Thank you!
Kira

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Subject: Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good
at EC '18

The 2nd Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good
 will be taking place at this
year's ACM Conference on Economics and Computation at Cornell University on
June 22, 2018.

The goal of the workshop is to highlight work where insights from
algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design have the potential to impact
social good. In particular, we will focus on the theme of *improving access
to opportunity*. The workshop will feature keynote presentations focusing
on economic inequality, online labor markets, bias and discrimination. We
encourage submissions addressing these and other domains, such as housing,
healthcare, education, civic participation, privacy, and the developing
world. The workshop aims to showcase ongoing exemplary work on these topics
and to highlight exciting opportunities for future research. Submissions of
all types are encouraged, including theoretical or applied mechanism design
work, research that solves algorithmic or optimization problems, and
empirical research.

Topics of interest for this workshop include but *are not limited to*:

   - redistributive mechanisms to improve access to opportunity
   - economic inequality and intergenerational mobility
   - mitigating unequal economic outcomes in online labor markets
   - detecting existence or causes of exploitative market behavior in
   online labor markets
   - the design of algorithms that mitigate bias and improve diversity
   - allocating low-income housing assistance
   - allocating health insurance funds, managing access to healthcare, and
   pricing medical treatments
   - design of health insurance markets
   - evaluating students, teachers, or schools
   - design of transportation systems
   - market regulations for data and privacy
   - algorithmic solutions to encourage civic participation
   - evaluating fairness in electoral representation

Submissions will be evaluated on the following criteria:

   - Quality of submission as measured by accuracy and clarity of
   exposition.
   - Relevance to this workshop and its theme of improving access to
   opportunity.
   - Novelty of domain: we particularly encourage work on applications that
   have been less explored within the EC community.
   - Potential for follow-up work in the EC community: those from other
   communities who feel they fit this criterion are especially encouraged to
   submit.

Authors may submit papers that are already under review or accepted in
conferences or journals. However, papers accepted to this year’s EC will
not be considered for presentation at the workshop. There will be no
published proceedings.

Authors should upload a PDF of their paper to EasyChair. There are no
specific formatting instructions. Submissions may either be working papers
or papers that have been published at an established conference or journal.
In the latter case, please include a citation on EasyChair.  In addition to
the PDF, authors are asked to upload a 200-250 word description onto
EasyChair summarizing the results and their relevance to the workshop. The
committee reserves the right not to review all the technical details of
submissions.

*Important Information:  *

   - Submission Deadline: April 21, 2018, 11:59pm AoE
   - Submission page: EasyChair
   
   - Notification: May 16, 2018
   - Workshop Date: June 22, 2018

*Organizing Committee:*

Program Chairs:

   - Rediet Abebe , Cornell University
   - Kira Goldner , University
   of Washington

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