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Project Research Scientist III
Job Profile:
The selected candidate will contribute to one or more the following areas:
- Analyze disease surveillance data to inform prevention and control strategies.
- Estimate disease burden and its contributing factors using advanced statistical techniques and large-scale datasets.
- Develop and apply mathematical and statistical models to understand infectious disease dynamics.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to design and evaluate public health interventions.
- Support evidence-based decision-making through analysis of epidemiological and demographic data.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of open-source tools for disease modeling and burden estimation.
- Analyze cost data from varied sources, including but not limited to administrative, existing literature, and clinical trials.
- Model healthcare costs and expenditures using econometric and statistical models.
- Decision modelling involving the construction and analysis of decision trees, and designing Markov models.
- Publish findings in peer-reviewed journals and present at national and international conferences.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Epidemiologist
Job Profile:
- Conduct analytical research to support NDMC researchers in developing statistical models for infectious diseases to be utilized for prediction/forecasting of disease burdens.
- Lead and support in conducting systematic reviews and meta-analysis with respect to disease related parameters to be used for the modelling works by the centre.
- Provide insights & updates from the national & subnational public health and disease elimination/control programmes as well as relevant national health programmes of the country.
- Help in translating programmatic data and available disease related secondary data into qualitative insights and aid further converting the same into modelling parameters.
- Contribute to drafting manuscripts and other knowledge/dissemination products including presentations, policy briefs, scientific publications etc.
- Any other related tasks assigned by the NDMC PIs.
Scientific Writer
Job Profile:
- Support IITB faculty and researchers in their scientific communication requirements.
- Clearly communicate scientific results in a condensed, non-technical, jargon free language that is understandable to non-specialist audiences and decision-makers.
- Develop and understanding of disease areas in focus.
- Demonstrate the flexibility necessary to function across different disease areas.
- Write original content for publication activities (primary manuscript, abstracts, posters) slide presentations and other materials based on research content provided by IITB faculty.
- Provide graphics support.
- Prepare newsletters communicating research updates as needed.
- Participate in meetings with healthcare system stakeholders.