Organisation: YR Gaitonde Medical Educational & Research Foundation (YRGMERF) for Project JSI.
Experience Required: 5 years.
Compensation: Remuneration will reflect the candidate's experience and skills, subject to the approved budget.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the project activities in the designated municipal corporation and peri-urban areas; coordinate with stakeholders.
- Report to Project Lead based at Bengaluru.
- Work closely with other team members.
- Project Implementation Support: ensure that the proposed activities are considering current disease patterns as well as requirements of the State and Disease health department.
- Ensure the staff are well trained on use of data for program implementation and documentation.
- Support in designing various tools for secondary information collection, analysis and use in the project.
- Urban and Peri-urban Coordination Support: analyses the disease surveillance systems in place both the urban and peri-urban areas of the designated project geographies.
- Identify contributing factors and their association with disease frequency, severity and spill over.
- Prepare reports on these patterns including the factors associated with previous outbreaks.
- Support in preparing report on the preparedness of health facilities, staff capacity to address any spill-over or outbreaks in future.
- Identify key resources that can be established within the project resources to provide on the job skilling.
- Support in preparation of other stakeholders who could contribute in early reporting using existing IDSP tools including those in private sector.
- Help in preparation of a landscaping report on current practices and how those can be aligned with One Health activities.
- Support in documentation of various project activities related to One Health, outbreak preparedness by discussing with the stakeholders and participants.
- Help in understanding the peri-urban vulnerability pattern to disease outbreak in the designated area and facilitates preparation of a city action plan that guides several activities under the project as well as through other resources.
- Help in understanding current practices in Info-demic management, how those practices have been successful in managing better surveillance and management of outbreaks in both urban and peri-urban zones.
- Innovations: Ensure that government approved tools and techniques are scaled up and widely practiced.
- Provides support in implementing innovations in the project.
- Additional Duties: Undertake any other responsibilities assigned by the supervisor in support of project objectives.
Requirements
Desirable Attributes
- Team player and problem-solving attitude
- Multi-tasking yet focusing on details of the project looking at wider impact beyond project
- Solid ability to establish consensus on matters that impacts project timelines
- Understanding of Karnataka Health Systems specific to Urban Health, Disease Surveillance is a must
Qualifications and Experience
- Masters in Public Health or Epidemiology or Bio-statistics with minimum 5 years experience in managing surveillance activities in Hyderabad under NUHM, Urban Health Project, Disease Surveillance, One Health Activities, National Vector Borne Control Program. Preference will be given to local candidates who understands and have worked in Hyderabad Health Systems.
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