Deputy Director, Health R&D, DHAI

Tags: Global Health Environment
  • Added Date: Wednesday, 08 October 2025
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The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, weโ€™re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The TeamThe India Country Office (ICO) plays a pivotal role in advancing the foundationโ€™s mission through strategic engagement with government, partners, and stakeholders across sectors. As one of the foundationโ€™s largest and most active country programs, the ICO supports a wide portfolio of initiatives spanning health, gender equality, agriculture, and digital transformation. The office works closely with national and state-level institutions to pilot and scale innovations, influence systems, and deliver meaningful impact for the people of India and beyond.

The Digital, Health Innovations and Artificial Intelligence (DHAI) cluster is a core enabler for key goals of the ICO across our portfolio.

On the health innovation front, the cluster is focused on new products such as vaccines, drugs, microbiomes, small molecular drugs, devices including AI-enabled, diagnostics, devices, modeling, and other data science approaches that are crucial to many programs. The foundation has also been partnering with the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), BIRAC, Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and private sector players to strengthen health product R&D in India. Our aim is to help India serve as a credible source of supply for life-saving innovations for diseases that affect the poorest.

Our digital work includes technical assistance support to key central government departments and certain state agencies in the development, roll-out and scale up of digital architecture in health, gender and poverty reduction, and helping to study impact.

The newest addition to our work is in AI, where we aim to catalyze Indian innovation, in close collaboration with Government (Central and select States) efforts, on foundationโ€™s priority sectors, such as health, education, gender and agriculture. Our work focuses on ethical and responsible AI adoption, ensuring that advancements in AI drive positive impact, reduce inequities, and support the strategic goals of governments in India, as well as select countries in the South and Southeast Asia region.

Your Role

The Deputy Director, Health R&D, DHAI will lead strategic planning, investment management, and partnership engagement to accelerate Indiaโ€™s health innovation agenda, leading a team of experts in the areas of vaccines, biologics, diagnostics, medical devices, microbiomes, small molecule drugs. The role will shape and oversee a portfolio of initiatives to enable Indiaโ€™s contributions to global health R&D and product development for diseases affecting the poorest communities.

The postholder will be based at the foundationโ€™s ICO in New Delhi, and report to the Director, Health R&D, Digital Innovation and AI.

What Youโ€™ll Do

1. Core Responsibilities

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