Research Associate - Global Health Systems (Person-Centred Care)

Job Description

The SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute (“SDGHI”) is a platform for global health activities across the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre (“AMC”). The Institute aims to address current and emerging health challenges across Asia. Working in collaboration with partners, the Institute seeks to tackle prevalent health challenges, strengthen health systems and better insulate countries from pandemics and disease threats.

The Global Health Systems Research Unit is a new and dynamic unit focused on elucidating health system challenges and developing solutions. It collaborates with partners in Singapore and across Asia, generating evidence that drives intervention programmes across the AMC. The unit explores innovative ways to work with data, including testing AI tools for efficient management, analysis, synthesis, and visualisation of research data.

The Research Associate will play a dual role, supporting both SDGHI’s Global Health Systems and the SingHealth Centre for Person-Centred Care (CPCC). The ideal candidate will report to the SDGHI Clinical Core and work closely with the team at CPCC to contribute to projects that improve health equity and access in Singapore and across Asia.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to a wide range of health systems and services research programmes, including health systems analysis, policy analysis, and evaluation of person-centric initiatives. 
• Develop and validate new measures of patient-reported experience and health systems and services frameworks.
• Conduct ethnographic and qualitative research, utilising participatory approaches to health systems and services research.
• Implement advanced data tools for efficient management, analysis, synthesis, and visualisation of health systems data, ensuring accuracy.
• Assist with  project management, coordinating effectively among diverse stakeholders within SingHealth Duke-NUS AMC and external  partners (including overseas) to achieve project goals.
• Write research manuscripts, case studies, reports, presentations to academic audiences, funders, and other stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Public or Global Health, Social Sciences, or a field relevant to health systems and services research.
• Minimum  3 years of professional experience in health and social systems research.
• Demonstrated proficiency in both qualitative and quantitative research methods, with experience in ethnographic and participatory approaches. Prior experience in behavioural economics is highly advantageous. 
• Possess excellent academic writing and presentation skills.
• Experience in leveraging AI tools for quantitative and qualitative data synthesis and analysis is highly advantageous.
• Possess a growth mindset and can manage multiple projects with dynamic reporting lines and multiple stakeholders. 
• Embrace a decolonising mindset and the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
• Available for regional travel.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.