Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)
Brief on the Organization:
The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) is working towards building a healthier India. It is helping to address the limited institutional and systems capacity in India by strengthening education and training, advancing research and technology and facilitating policy and practice in the area of Public Health. PHFI is headquartered in New Delhi with national presence through its constituent units of regional Indian Institutes of Public Health (IIPHs) and Centers of Applied Research in core public health themes. The Foundation, established in 2006 as a public private initiative, is governed by an independent board comprising of senior government officials, eminent Indian and International academic and leaders, civil society representatives and corporate leaders.
Project Brief:
NIHR Global Health Research Centre for Multiple Long-term Conditions, funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research UK, to establish a Centre for improving lives of people with multimorbidity or multiple long term conditions. Through research, community engagement and involvement and research capacity strengthening the Centre aims to improve patient care through co-designed intervention, which includes decision support system, assisted telemedicine and patient facing application. The Centre will build capacity of researchers and research supporting staff in the lead and co-applicant institutions.
Deliverables:
- Draft questionnaires and standard operating procedures for various research activities
- Review the literature to inform development of tools for various research activities
- Draft applications for submission to the institutional ethics committee
- Contribute to development and implementation of the pilot and cluster randomized controlled trial
- Oversee development of study database
- Coordinate with field staff to ensure timely and high quality data collection
- Coordinate with statistician/data manager for data cleaning and analysis
- Review data for errors and get them rectified in timely manner
- Keep track of publications and other research outputs
- Coordinate with communications manager to ensure dissemination of research outputs through various social media channels
- Attend various committee meetings
- Contribute to development of the research capacity strengthening efforts.
- Contribute to data analysis and report writing.
- Travel as required.
- Any other task assigned by the PI.
Qualification:
- MD in Community Medicine or PhD in Public Health, Epidemiology or other allied field.
Experience:
- 1-3 years of experience in implementing community-based research projects
- Publishing manuscripts in high impact factor journals
- Proficiency in the use of software’s for data analysis – R or Stata and NVivo or MAXQDA.
