Description

Position Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Reports to: Chair, Center for Equity in Global Surgery

Program: Center for Equity in Global Surgery, Research Team (iPrOTeCT)

Location: University of Global Health Equity (UGHE), Kigali and Butaro, Rwanda

Duration: 3 years

Position overview

Join our excellent team as the Postdoctoral Research Fellow for an exciting 3-year project funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) as part of the Global Health Research Group on Physical Trauma from Injury & POsT Conflict (iPrOTeCT). Given the growing burden of road traffic accidents due to rapid increases in urbanization and motor vehicle use, this project focuses on saving limbs after injuries through surgery and technology, and where limbs cannot be saved, ensuring the best possible functional outcomes in Rwanda. The project involves working with teams of academics, policy makers, and software developers in the UK, Rwanda, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and Sri Lanka. The candidate will work closely with the Principal Investigator and Rwandan team of researchers to deliver the project with a focus on team Capacity Development and wider Community Engagement. This will require the establishment of trauma surveillance systems in key hospitals in Rwanda and community engagement efforts to better understand the impacts on healthcare services in Rwanda and patient’s concerns about treatments, devices, and socioeconomic needs.

The candidate will support developing protocols, conducting research, analyzing results, and disseminating findings to multiple end-users, including academic and lay publications and policy briefs. The candidate will work closely with the Principal Investigator, and the international team of various Investigators and assist the Research Program Manager in managing the research project, ensuring deliverables and milestones are met, and facilitating its interface with other ongoing projects. The post-holder should be with strong quantitative and/or qualitative analytical skills, ideally, and preferably experience in surgery. The successful applicant will be a key lead in the project to coordinate all aspects of the research from protocol development, ethics submission, coordinate data collection and data analysis. The post holder will be responsible for liaising and coordinating with all team members and planning and delivering all project-related activities. S/he must have excellent analytic, communication and organization skills. In addition to the Person Specification (see below) the ideal candidate