Postdoctoral Fellow Global Health
Full time
at University of Sydney
in
Online
Posted on January 13, 2025
Job details
- Full time, 12 month fixed term contract with a possible extension dependent on funding
- Be a part of University of Sydney collaborations in global child health
- Base Salary starting from $109,301 to $116,679 + 17% superannuation About the opportunity The University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health has an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (or Level A, Associate Lecturer) position to join Alexandra Martiniuk’s research team focusing on global child health (health systems - cancer and/or mental health) in Australia and the Asia Pacific region, with potential opportunity to join other broader global health projects. The role presents an opportunity to be part of international collaborations with leading partners in our research including the WHO Collaborating Centre for Childhood Cancer, the Indian Pediatric Hematology Oncology Group and Vietnamese partners in child cancer research. Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Contribute to the design, development and implementation of research projects from literature reviews to planning, seeking ethical approvals, data collection, analysis and publications with the investigator teams.
- Manage aspects of some of the projects, together with the lead investigator.
- Present project updates, overviews, and formal presentations of research activity to the full partnership team, together with the investigator team.
- Contribute to, and/or lead the preparation of peer-review papers, as a lead or co-author.
- Provide appropriate mentoring to relevant staff and students on the projects.
- Undertake other research duties as required.
- A completed Doctor of Philosophy in a relevant field of research (e.g., public or global health, epidemiology, medicine, nursing, allied health, qualitative/anthropology, health economics, psychology/mental health).
- Experience in research having authored at least several peer-reviewed publications.
- Experience with either quantitative or qualitative research methods or both.
- Demonstrated experience in contributing to or executing high quality research projects.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
- Experience with research ethics proposals, project management, data collection, rural or remote settings, global health, child health (advantageous).
- Knowledge of literature reviews, referencing software, project management tools, data collection tools (e.g., Redcap, SurveyMonkey), interviewing, data analysis of quantitative (e.g., R, STATA, SAS, SPSS) and/or qualitative data (e.g., yarning, realist, other qualitative methods), implementation, evaluation (advantageous).
- Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to establish and maintain inclusive, respectful and productive working relationships with colleagues, partners and members of the community. Ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Ideally, you will be looking to launch your own research career, keen to join our team, with a keen interest in child health, and/or health systems and services research.
- Flexibility to work online from home and from the university.
- Ideally, you will be interested in traveling within the Asia/Pacific region.
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