Postdoctoral Research Fellow

We are seeking applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow with a keen interest in Global Child Health, Epidemiology and/or Digital Health.

The Trainee will conduct research in global health initiatives utilizing risk-based differentiated care to prevent pediatric mortality and morbidity, enabled through digital health technologies in Africa (Kenya, Uganda + more). The Trainee will be working on a program with over 15+ years of implementation research in leveraging evidence-based technologies to support front line healthcare workers in resource limited settings in diagnosing, triaging and discharging children with serious infections, and other co-morbidities.

The exciting next stage of this program will be to expand to multiple countries in East and West Africa, with rigorous evaluation. We are looking for an individual with a desire to embrace the complexity of digital health implementation and data-driven predictive modelling in low-resource settings with passion, resilience, and lots of creativity.

The co-ordinating centre is located within a collaboration between the Institute for Global Health at BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital, University of British Columbia and the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, and BC Children’s Research Institute with support from Mathew Wiens, Bella Hwang, Tex Kissoon, Nathan Kenya, Mark Ansermino and many others. The successful candidate will work with the Principal Investigator, Co-Investigators, and research staff on related studies.

The primary activities include:

• Conducting substantive, methodologically rigorous quantitative research analyses
• Participating in study design, quality assurance testing, documenting coding methods, and interpreting results.
• Act as lead research manager of projects. Extended stay and travel throughout Africa is required.
• Organizing and collecting data – helping coordinate research assistants and staff to support these activities
• Representing the research team to Minister of Health officials
• Working with stakeholder and NGO partners globally
• Contributing to literature reviews and syntheses.
• Writing research abstracts, summary reports, and scientific articles, and submitting articles to peer-reviewed journals.
• Presenting study results to the scientific community at national and international conferences.
• Identifying and pursuing secondary research projects and research funding.
• Collaborating with the other research teams.

The post-doctoral fellow is required to conduct all activities in an ethical manner and with adherence to the Tri
- Council Policy Statement concerning Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans.

The majority of work will be done independently, with support of the Program Manager and/or Principal Investigator.

The candidate is responsible for supervision of multi-country research team staff, staff at research hospitals (e.g., Study nurse, data collectors), and students.

• PhD in a relevant field
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment
• High personal motivation, self-management, detail-orientated; ability to take responsibility for meeting deadlines
• High degree of comfort with change, and the ability to be agile and adaptable as the projects evolve in large complex health systems and their health technologies.
• The qualified candidate(s) will have training in a relevant discipline (i.e., Epidemiology, Statistics, Biostatistics, Public Health or a related field as long as the candidate has a strong foundation in statistics). Minimum of two years related experience.
• Demonstrated skills in data management and programming using statistical packages (SAS and SQL and occasionally STATA and R).
• Demonstrated knowledge of research processes, systematic reviews, and syntheses.
• Education/training and experience in quantitative research methods, and multivariate statistical analysis.
• Excellent communication skills, including strong writing, research, and interpersonal skills.
• High-level conceptual, analytical, and critical appraisal skills.
• Demonstrated initiative and willingness to work closely with…