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We work well together. Our research team is lean because we're able to attract top-tier people, all ... Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships * Automatic contribution equal to 5% of ...

We work well together. Our research team is lean because we're able to attract top-tier people, all ... Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships * Automatic contribution equal to 5% of ...

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Boise, ID · Remote

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Tucson, AZ · Remote

$18/hr

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Norfolk, VA · Remote

$18/hr

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Littleton, CO · Remote

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Cleveland, OH · Remote

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We are excited to announce that currently we are looking for a 100% remote (work from home-WFH) ... research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and health ...

We are excited to announce that currently we are looking for a 100% remote (work from home-WFH) ... research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and health ...

We are excited to announce that currently we are looking for a 100% remote (work from home-WFH) ... research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and health ...

We are excited to announce that currently we are looking for a 100% remote (work from home-WFH) ... research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and health ...

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Portland, OR · Remote

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Cheyenne, WY · Remote

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Denver, CO · Remote

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How much do work from home malaria research jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 28, 2026, the average yearly pay for work from home malaria research in the United States is $60,938.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $35,000.00 and $77,000.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a work from home malaria researcher?

A Work From Home Malaria Researcher is a scientific professional who studies malaria, its causes, transmission, prevention, and treatment while working remotely. They may analyze data, review scientific literature, write reports, or collaborate with teams online to advance malaria research. These researchers often use digital tools and remote access to laboratory data or clinical trial results, making it possible to contribute significantly to the field without being physically present in a laboratory or office. This remote role is especially valuable for data analysis, grant writing, and epidemiological modeling tasks.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a work from home malaria researcher?

To thrive as a Work From Home Malaria Researcher, you typically need a background in life sciences or public health, with at least a bachelor's or master's degree and research experience in infectious diseases. Familiarity with statistical analysis software (such as SPSS, R, or SAS), data management systems, and possibly certifications in clinical research are highly valuable. Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and effective written communication are crucial soft skills for remote collaboration and reporting. These competencies ensure accurate data analysis, contribute to impactful research outcomes, and support the global fight against malaria from a remote setting.

What are some common challenges faced by professionals working from home in malaria research, and how can they be addressed?

Working from home in malaria research can present unique challenges, such as limited access to laboratory facilities, difficulty in collaborating with field teams, and managing large datasets remotely. To address these issues, professionals often rely heavily on digital communication platforms, cloud-based data management tools, and regular virtual meetings to maintain team cohesion. Staying proactive in communication and seeking remote mentorship or professional development opportunities can also help overcome isolation and support continued career growth.

What is the difference between Work From Home Malaria Research vs Field Malaria Research Assistant?

AspectWork From Home Malaria ResearchField Malaria Research Assistant
Work EnvironmentRemote, home-basedOn-site, field locations
Required CredentialsResearch background, relevant certificationsResearch experience, fieldwork skills
Employer & Industry UsageResearch institutions, NGOs, health agenciesResearch institutions, health organizations
Common Search & ComparisonYesYes

Work From Home Malaria Research typically involves remote data analysis, literature review, and report writing, while Field Malaria Research Assistants conduct on-site data collection and field surveys. Both roles require research credentials, but the work environment and daily tasks differ significantly, catering to different skill sets within malaria research.

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Infographic showing various Work From Home Malaria Research job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 81% Full Time, 15% Part Time, and 3% Contract. Highlights an 87% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 11% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $60,938 per year, or $29.3 per hour.

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Job description

GiveWell's mission is to help people in need as much as we can by researching the most cost-effective ways to save and improve lives, sharing our work openly, and directing donations to the programs we believe will do the most good. Our work, which focuses on global health and well-being, is funded by tens of thousands of donors who rely on our research to inform their giving. We've grown from directing $1.5 million in 2010 to directing more than $400 million in 2025. We anticipate our total grantmaking is likely to approach or even exceed $1 billion this year, and we are working toward a future that could be several times that scale. Through years of deliberate groundwork, we've been growing our research capacity and scope in order to direct substantially more funding to the most impactful opportunities we can find.
The role
You will be joining a small grantmaking team to contribute to our ambitious research agenda on malaria. You'll sift through the countless questions we could try to answer, and honing in on those that matter most. You'll also communicate externally about your work and mentor and advise other researchers on the team.
You will shape a research agenda that brings rigor and creativity to the thorniest questions the GiveWell malaria team faces. Your work will combine empirical evidence review and critical synthesis, cost-effectiveness modeling, discussions with subject matter experts, understanding of the broader context, and your own judgment. In the course of your work, you might approach questions like these:
  • How should GiveWell's portfolio of investments change in response to new technologies and shifts in government or funder priorities?
  • How does expanding the use of newly-developed insecticides in nets affect cost-effectiveness?
  • What is the potential cost-effectiveness of novel interventions such as attractive toxic sugar baits at scale across contexts?
Team structure
Our research department has over 60 people, and is currently organized into seven teams:
  • Five of the teams (Water, Livelihoods, Nutrition, Malaria, and Vaccines) focus on specific areas of grantmaking.
  • The New Areas team focuses on interventions in domains that are new to GiveWell.
  • The Cross-Cutting team focuses on methodological issues, research quality, and other big-picture concerns that cut across all of our research work.
  • The Commons team provides generalized research support to each of the other teams, including landscaping research, vetting, and publishing.

Our malaria team has three subteams: two of them focus on grantmaking in vector control and chemoprevention, respectively, and the third is focused on cross-team research questions. You might sit on any of the three teams.
Team values
We think our research team has unique qualities:
  • We care deeply and centrally about finding and sharing truth. Truth-seeking is one of our core values. We post our mistakes and we prize our team members who keep our culture of free-flowing feedback strong.
  • We are independent. We focus 100% on finding the most cost-effective opportunities to save and improve lives. Our researchers assist in communicating our research findings to the public and our donors, and on occasion we provide tailored advice to ultra-high-net-worth donors who want to rely on our expertise to direct their giving-but we never ask our researchers to trade off against honesty, or to hide their real beliefs.
  • We don't waste time. Once it's clear that a particular research question is unlikely to change our bottom-line funding recommendation, we drop it as quickly as possible. We encourage our research staff to constantly re-evaluate their portfolios and only work on the highest-priority questions.
  • Lean research team = huge personal impact. In 2026,our research team of ~80 people is directing close to 1 billion dollars and we expect grantmaking dollars per research team member to increase in the future.
  • We work well together. Our research team is lean because we're able to attract top-tier people, all of whom complete skills-based assessments before joining our staff. We maintain a high-performing, collegial culture and pay our staff accordingly.
About you
We expect the Senior Malaria Researcher to have
  • A quantitatively oriented advanced degree (e.g., in epidemiology, statistics, economics or related fields)
  • Substantial professional experience in the malaria landscape (broadly defined). This could include experience in epidemiological or health economics modeling, and/or in program implementation or funding.

We expect that people with the soft qualities below will be the most successful and happy on our team. This isn't a full list, but hopefully it conveys the gist of our team's professional personality:
  • GiveWell's mission and methods are personally energizing-you like our approach to research and you find personal meaning in our story of impact.
  • You're abnormally curious-you ask lots of questions, and you're willing to interrogate others' work. Your curiosity also extends to your own work-you aren't defensive when your research comes under scrutiny.
  • You routinely think about and surface the value judgments, background knowledge, and strategic commitments that undergird your work. You understand the potential effects of mistaken mental models, so you strive to improve yours and your team's.
  • You dislike it when people express strong confidence in views that don't seem to rely on commensurate evidence. You carefully and legibly communicate about your confidence levels.
  • You appreciate the value of an excellent reputation and strong relationships. You can moderate your directness and intensity when you're communicating with external folks.
  • You love a gnarly problem. You figure out the most important questions to answer, go deep on the details where they matter (and move on where they don't), and reassess your mental models based on what you've learned.
  • You constantly assess whether you and the team are working on the most important things.

If you're interested in working on GiveWell's research team but don't have malaria expertise, consider applying to our generalist Senior Researcher role.
The details
  • Compensation: We set salaries using a location-based tier system. Our pay for this role:
    • NYC or the San Francisco Bay Area: $308,000.
    • All other U.S. locations: $280,000
    • International: Similar to the "all other U.S. locations" salary, based on historical exchange rates and delivered in locally-denominated currency. We can share a precise figure upon request after the first work trial stage.
  • Benefits: Our benefits include:
    • Fully funded health, dental, vision, and life insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the US for you and any dependents)
    • Four weeks of paid time off per year
    • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
    • Ergonomic home workstations or coworking space memberships
    • Automatic contribution equal to 5% of your gross salary into your 403(b) retirement plan (for U.S. based staff)
  • Location: GiveWell's staff work primarily remotely within the U.S. and abroad. This position is eligible to work fully remotely. A successful candidate will need to commit to a work schedule that has some overlap with American working hours and the schedules of key coworkers.
    • Offices: You are welcome but not required to work from our offices in Oakland, California; Brooklyn, NYC; or London, UK. We'll cover relocation expenses for candidates who wish to move to any of our physical office locations.
    • International work: We are happy to employ staff internationally on a case-by-case basis.
  • Flexibility: We support and encourage flexible working, including flexible hours, working remotely, and working from the office when you choose. The majority of our staff, including senior management, work flexibly in one way or another.
  • Visa Sponsorship: If you want to work in the United States and need a work visa, we'll do our best to sponsor it (and also cover up to 100% of relocation expenses on a case-by-case basis). Please note that government entities ultimately dictate our ability to sponsor visas.
  • Travel: Research team members are sometimes required to attend international site visits and conferences (on average 1-2 per year), with additional travel for those interested in traveling more. Additionally, we strongly encourage staff members to attend quarterly whole-org and department retreats to bond with other team members and complete in-person work. We'll discuss travel obligations in more detail during late stages of the hiring process, and we'll accommodate staff who have conflicting family or other obligations.
  • Start date: We'd like a candidate to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer, but we'll offer flexibility for candidates whose personal or professional circumstances require them to moderately delay their start date.

Miscellaneous details:
  • Please apply to only one Senior Researcher posting. If you have deep expertise in this area, this pod-specific role is the right fit. If not, there's no need to apply here - our generalist Senior Researcher role is designed for strong researchers who don't have a single specialization, and you don't need to apply to both. Applying to the generalist role won't put you at any disadvantage!
  • Please note that our hiring process consists of the same work trials for the following roles: Researcher, Senior Researcher, Senior Cross-Cutting Researcher, Senior Livelihoods Researcher, Senior Malaria Researcher, Senior New Areas Researcher, Senior Nutrition Researcher, Senior Vaccines Researcher, and Senior Water Researcher. If, within the last year, you applied and were rejected for one of these roles, you should hold off on applying to the other roles, unless explicitly asked to do so by a member of our team. If you're interested in all of these roles, please just apply once and note in your application that you'd like to be considered for the other roles, too.
  • After application review, our hiring process consists of a short application exercise and up to 15 hours of compensated work trials. You can see more details about our hiring process on our FAQs page!
  • We devote significant staff capacity to initial application review, and we respond to all applications as quickly as possible.
  • We have a strong preference for full-time applicants, but we'll consider applications for part-time work. We aren't interested in reviewing applications for contract or project-based work at this time.
  • If we settle on an application deadline, we'll write it in bold here. If you're on our website job posting and don't see a deadline, there is no deadline. If you're reading this on an external job board and don't see a deadline, you should double-check on our website.
  • You don't need to submit a cover letter-we rely mainly on your resume and answers to the application questions below when we're making early decisions.

About GiveWell
GiveWell is dedicated to finding and evaluating highly cost-effective global health and development opportunities, and we publish all the work, reasoning, and uncertainties behind our funding decisions. Our giving funds enable donors to contribute to the most impactful and cost-effective programs our researchers identify.
GiveWell is one of the world's largest private funders of global development efforts. Trusted annually by tens of thousands of donors, GiveWell searches for highly cost-effective programs that save or improve lives the most. Since 2007, more than 150,000 donors have given over $2.6 billion through GiveWell to the most promising programs its research has identified, which we estimate will save more than 340,000 lives.
GiveWell is most well-known for recommending a small number of Top Charities, which currently support seasonal malaria chemoprevention, insecticide-treated nets, vaccine incentivization, and vitamin A supplementation. However, most of our research capacity and grantmaking is devoted to cost-effective opportunities outside of those programs.
GiveWell grants have:
  • Helped governments navigate changes to the funding landscape and implement high-impact health programs, like HIV/syphilis screening and treatment for pregnant people in Zambia and Cameroon.
  • Sought to scope and scale promising interventions that don't have clear existing implementers. We are supporting the Clinton Health Access Initiative's Incubator to identify potentially cost-effective interventions and create programs that we would be excited to support in the future. For example, we funded a program to prevent tuberculosis among young children in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India, that we co-designed with CHAI through the Incubator program.
  • Provided funding to ensure that programs that recently faced foreign aid funding cuts could continue, like healthcare support and malnutrition treatment in northern Cameroon.
  • Funded program delivery alongside strengthened monitoring and evaluation, as in our grants to support treatment of clubfoot and to evaluate the program.
  • Tested our assumptions and refined our understanding through further research and data collection, including improved estimates of disease burden and studies on the effect of water chlorination on mortality and the impact of a tree-planting program on farmers' income.

We make our reasoning public and transparent so others can challenge it (sometimes we even pay people to point out our errors). We go to unusual lengths to check our assumptions and assess our impact, including funding research to address our uncertainties and gathering independent monitoring and evaluation data about the programs we support. We change our minds when the evidence demands it. For more about GiveWell, listen to Ezra Klein's recent interview with GiveWell's co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld.