Research Lead - Disease Prevention

About the Company
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 disease prevention,
epidemiology, and modifiable risk factors that shape population health outcomes in India.

As Research Lead for Disease Prevention, you will be responsible for generating and synthesising
evidence on major diseases and their underlying risk factors, tracking epidemiological trends, and
developing scientifically grounded approaches to disease prevention. You will translate evidence on disease burden, risk factors, and prevention into actionable frameworks and recommendations that can inform policy, programmes, and real-world interventions.

Key Responsibilities

● Leading disease prevention research:  You will lead research on major non-communicable and
preventable diseases, with a focus on understanding disease burden, epidemiology, determinants,
and opportunities for prevention across the life course.

● Studying disease risk factors:  You will investigate modifiable and behavioural risk factors
contributing to disease burden, synthesising evidence on their prevalence, distribution, and
relationship with health outcomes to identify priority areas for preventive action.

● Developing disease prevention frameworks:  You will develop evidence-based frameworks for
disease prevention that identify priority risk factors, intervention opportunities, and pathways for
reducing disease burden at the population level.

● Tracking epidemiological trends:  You will monitor changes in disease incidence, prevalence,
mortality, risk-factor exposure, and population health outcomes in India and globally. You will
assess emerging epidemiological trends and their implications for preventive health priorities.

● Generating and synthesising evidence:  You will design and oversee literature reviews, evidence
syntheses, epidemiological analyses, and other research studies relevant to disease prevention.
You will ensure that research is methodologically rigorous, scientifically credible, and relevant to
Indian public health contexts.

● Translating evidence into recommendations:  You will translate epidemiological and
disease-prevention evidence into clear, actionable recommendations for policy, programmes, and
preventive health interventions, working closely with policy and implementation teams.

● Building domain expertise and knowledge assets:  You will develop and maintain knowledge
resources on disease burden, epidemiology, risk factors, and prevention approaches,
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