Research Assistant; Part-time​/Remote - Infectious Diseases

Position Summary

As a Research Assistant with the Light Institute for Global Health and Transformation, you will gain hands‑on experience across implementation science research, public health clinical trials, and the day‑to‑day operations that keep high‑impact projects moving. This role offers a unique mix of research, field, and administrative exposure—from contributing to multiyear studies on uptake, scale‑up, adaptation, and sustainment of evidence‑based interventions to supporting grant management, logistics, and project coordination.

Candidates looking to build both rigorous research skills and practical experience in global and public health, this is a rare opportunity to learn how meaningful public health work is carried from idea to implementation.

• Conduct research experiments and assays.
• Evaluate research results, report findings, and discuss project outcomes with staff.
• Perform data entry and maintain data files on research.
• Coordinate tissue cultures, reagents, probe tests, etc.
• Comply with established safety procedures and maintain required documentation on laboratory and specimen conditions.
• Coordinate research projects with other institutions and investigators.
• Participate in developing hypotheses to be tested and ways of testing them.
• Assist with general supply/equipment orders, lab maintenance, and cleaning.
• Perform literature research on specified topics.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Works in a laboratory environment with potential exposure to biological and chemical hazards. Must be physically able to wear protective equipment and provide standard care to research animals.

• Bachelor’s degree or a combination of education and/or experience may substitute for the minimum education.
• Laboratory Operations: 2 years.
• No specific certification or professional license required.
• Driver’s license not required.

$17.10 – $29.09 per hour (Grade R07‑H).

Washington University in St. Louis is committed to the principles and practices of equal employment opportunity. It is the University’s policy to provide equal opportunity and access to persons in all job titles without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, citizenship (where prohibited by federal law), age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.