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The organisation enables young Indians to pursue high-impact, purpose-driven careers in nation building.
It believes in the power of youth to drive collective change and provides young professionals with the platform to create societal impact. Nation Building Foundation of India drives interventions to address the most pressing challenges affecting India across priority themes, with sports and health among its focus areas.
About the Preventive Healthcare Vertical
Non-communicable diseases cause the highest number of premature deaths globally. India, too, faces a rising burden of non-communicable and preventable diseases driven by modifiable risk factors. However, the current systemic approach focuses on treatment and management rather than prevention.
The Preventive Healthcare Vertical seeks to shift this paradigm by advancing a science-driven approach to prevention that enables people not only to live longer, but to live healthier for longer. We believe that improving India's health outcomes requires deliberate investment in evidence-based preventive interventions across the life course, with particular emphasis on early-life prevention to reduce the burden of disease later in life.
The vertical is committed to placing healthspan alongside lifespan at the centre of public health thinking. By combining rigorous research, policy engagement, strategic communications, and scalable interventions, we seek to strengthen the preventive public health ecosystem, shape state action, and inspire healthier behaviours across populations. If this vision excites you, we invite you to join our dynamic team and contribute to the ambitious goal of building a healthier India.
About the Role
You will join the preventive public healthcare vertical to lead research on nutrition, dietary patterns,
metabolic health, and their role in disease prevention and healthy ageing.
As Research Lead for Nutrition Science, you will be responsible for generating and synthesising evidence on nutrition and metabolic health, evaluating dietary interventions, and developing evidence-based nutrition recommendations. You will translate scientific evidence into practical recommendations and frameworks that can inform preventive health interventions, programmes, and policy.
Key Responsibilities
● Leading nutrition and metabolic health research:
You will lead research examining the
relationship between nutrition, dietary patterns, metabolic health, and health outcomes across the
life course.
● Researching nutrition and dietary determinants:
You will investigate the role of dietary intake,
dietary patterns, nutrient adequacy, and other nutritional determinants in shaping metabolic and
population health outcomes.
Nation Building Foundation of India
● Evaluating dietary interventions: You will assess evidence on dietary and nutrition interventions,
including their effectiveness, feasibility, and potential for improving metabolic health and
preventing disease.
● Developing nutrition recommendations: You will synthesise scientific evidence to develop
practical, evidence-based nutrition recommendations, with consideration of different population
groups, life stages, dietary contexts, and health needs.
● Studying nutrition and disease prevention: You will examine evidence linking nutrition and dietary factors with major preventable diseases and identify opportunities for nutrition-led preventive interventions.
● Generating and synthesising evidence: You will design and oversee literature reviews, evidence
syntheses, research studies, and analytical work related to nutrition and metabolic health. You will
ensure that research outputs are methodologically rigorous, scientifically credible, and relevant to
Indian contexts.
● Building domain knowledge: You will develop and maintain knowledge resources on nutrition,
dietary interventions, metabolic health, and related areas, strengthening the organisation's
institutional understanding of nutrition science.
● Client interaction and communication: You will present research findings and nutrition-related
recommendations to government stakeholders, clients, and allied institutions, translating technical
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