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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Vacancy: Senior Researcher in Human Resources for Health: IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health

Job Description
The Senior Researcher is expected to take on the responsibility for research in all aspects of the human resources component of the ICTPH Health Systems Design. This includes research on the appropriate choice of formally trained physicians, lay health extension workers, training and certification programmes, and design of incentive structures and monitoring mechanisms. The Senior Researcher is expected to develop and anchor high quality academic partnerships, raise research grants to support various projects, identify and work closely with interns and researchers from around that world that are interested in these issues, participate in national and international dissemination of research findings, and work closely with field based partners in helping them roll out various human resources interventions. A high level of academic throughput by way of peer-reviewed publications and international conferences is expected and will be evaluated annually.

Academic Qualification
A Master’s Degree in Public Health or in Community Medicine and a formal degree in Modern Allopathic Medicine (MBBS / MD) are both essential for the position.
Additionally, a PhD in any of the above listed disciplines and a record of publications in peer reviewed journals will be highly desirable. While all nationalities are welcome to apply, fluency in both written and spoken English would be essential.

Location
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India

Compensation
Annual compensation for this position is expected to be a minimum of Rs. 900,000/-.

Company Background
IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health (ICTPH) is an India based research organization with its mission to develop innovative models for healthcare delivery in rural populations and to test them out with field based government and non-government partners. The research verticals at ICTPH are Human Resources, Infrastructure, Interventions and Financing and are principally focussed on the delivery and of primary care in remote rural settings. ICTPH currently works closely with one partner in the Thanjavur District of Tamil Nadu (Sughavazhvu Healthcare), which serves a population of 30,000. Sughavazhvu expects to grow the size of covered population, over the next 12 months, to 200,000. All the aspects of the services offered by Sughavazhvu are entirely based on the ICTPH Healthcare Design. Over a period of time ICTPH expects to build more such partnerships in other parts of the country.

Acute shortages of appropriately trained personnel are a key challenge facing Indian rural health systems. There is therefore an urgent need to develop models to address these shortages which are able to deploy available human resources and combine them with appropriately designed training and certification programmes, clinic infrastructure (including advanced diagnostics and health management information systems), and clinical protocols to deliver high quality healthcare while staying strictly within the constraints of the financial resources available to India as a nation.

IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health (ICTPH) is a non-profit research institution and is a part of IKP Trust conglomerate. With a mission to productize innovation, IKP Trust anchors multiple initiatives. IKP Knowledge Park is a 200 Acre facility within the Genome Valley at Hyderabad, India specializing in chemical and pharmaceutical incubation, through the entire spectrum of start-up entrepreneur to research anchor for established players. India Innovation Fund at IKP Trust is first of its kind national initiative, as an early stage fund created to promote Intellectual Property (IP) driven innovations in frontier or emerging technologies. IKP Centre for Advancement in Agricultural Practices in collaboration with International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) aims improve agricultural productivity and farm income in India for small-holder farmers through improvements in agricultural practices, by acting as a bridge between the knowledge available at research laboratories and academia and organisations that directly interact with small-holder farmers. SughaVazhvu Healthcare is a fully owned subsidiary of IKP Trust, managing a network of Rural Micro Health Centres (RMHCs) in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu and is the field implementation partner of ICTPH. ICTPH is working towards instituting a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Health Systems Research at IKP Knowledge Park, Hyderabad, India as a policy research entity disseminating learnings from the healthcare delivery work at ICTPH and SughaVazhvu. The ICTPH-CoE will allow a primary-care research platform for National and International Academicians specializing in healthcare delivery.

To Apply
Please send your detailed CV along with your Statement of Purpose and a sample of your most recent written work, to:
Ms. Erin Jeremiah
Executive Assistant
IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health (ICTPH)
Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu
India

Phone: +91 (44) 6668 7275 | +91 9003 061 461