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The Institute of Public Health Sciences Hyderabad (IPHSH) is a society registered under Telangana society’s registration Act 2001 and is managed by an empowered governing board comprising of corporate leaders, civil society representatives and eminent academic and scientific leaders. IPHSH’s core mission areas include: establishing and governing the Indian Institute of Public Health-Hyderabad for developing public health workforce; advancing public health research and technology; and strengthening health systems through evidence informed practice and policy
The Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH) Hyderabad commenced with a mission to deliver public health education, pursue research and advocacy and support policy development. It lays strong emphasis on pursuing public health policy, practice, training and research, positioning its programmes according to the public health priorities of the state and the nation. The institute has brought together a highly qualified and diverse faculty of nationally and internationally trained and extremely motivated public health academics and practitioners. It aims to create an environment that supports excellence in instruction, research and practice.
To facilitate the process of transparent and evidence informed decision making in the field of health, Government of India has created an institutional arrangement called the Health Technology Assessment in India (HTAIn) under the Department of Health Research (DHR). HTAIn is entrusted with the responsibility to collate and where needed generate evidence related to the clinical effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and safety of medicines, devices and health programs using the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) approach. Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad has been selected as a hub of HTAIn with the mandate of carrying out HTA for government and various other relevant agencies in that region.
The incumbent will work under the direct supervision of PI. S/He will perform the following tasks:
- Extract and analyze assessment data.
- Carry out economic evaluations.
- Review of literature—scoping, descriptive and systematic review with meta-analysis.
- Help in developing HTA project proposals.
- Help in writing reports and developing manuscripts.
- Present project brief at ethical and technical committees.
- Carry out other related activities assigned by PI and other investigators.
- Assist in preparing budgets.
- Prepare publication quality manuscript.
- Facilitate recruitment for HTA projects, data analysis and management of data repository.
- Will be required to travel within the state and to other states as well as Delhi.
- Any other tasks assigned by Supervisor/PI.
Essential:
- PhD/master’s in economics /development economics/public health with specialization in Health Economics, Health Financing and Health Policy.
Desirable:
- Publication in reputed peer-reviewed journals will be given weightage.
Essential:
- Working post-degree in Health Economics research projects at middle to senior researcher level for 3-4 years.
- For PhD in Economics the post-PhD experience can be relaxed to 1 years provided the thesis was aligned to any public health project or programmer and there are publication(s) from it
- Academic review (scoping and systematic).
- Competence at biostatistics/econometrics with fluent use of statistical software (preferably R and STATA) with working knowledge of large datasets.
- Competence at costing study of interventions and economic evaluations.
- Good academic writing skill.
Interested and eligible candidates may send their updated CV to vacancies@iiphh.org Please mention the exact Position Code (IIPHH-RA-006) in the email subject line and fill the application form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIE6P0TUDkS-FAD14tW3-S8XEKSRT4a7Z7kNjOgmtP0sWFRA/viewform?usp=sf_link
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the interview.
Last Date of Receipt of Applications: 12 February 2024.
Remarks:
- Candidates should have an excellent academic record, good communication skills, a commitment to high quality graduate / post-graduate education.
- Mere eligibility will not entitle any candidate for being called for interview.
- Persons employed in Government/Semi-Government Organization or Educational Institutions in India must apply through proper.
- IIPHH reserves the right to fill or not to fill any or all available
- The requirements of minimum qualification and/or experience may be relaxed in the case of candidates with outstanding.
- No correspondence will be entertained from candidates regarding any delays, conduct & result of interview and reasons for not being called for interview.
- Please note that Annual Salary (CTC) will commensurate with available skills and fitment of the incumbent as per the selection process.
“IIPHH reserves the sole right to alter/modify/cancel the entire selection process or the position or the vacancy or to disqualify any candidature at any stage of the selection process”.
Women are encouraged to apply!
