Deadline: November 14, 2025
Applications for the University of British Columbia Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program 2025-2026 are now open. They are seeking applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow with a keen interest in Global Child Health, Epidemiology and/or Digital Health.
The Trainee will conduct research in global health initiatives utilizing risk-based differentiated care to prevent pediatric mortality and morbidity, enabled through digital health technologies in Africa (Kenya, Uganda + more). The Trainee will be working on a program with over 15+ years (Smart Discharges Child, Smart Discharges Mom&Baby, Smart Triage) of implementation research in leveraging evidence-based technologies to support front line healthcare workers in resource limited settings in diagnosing, triaging and discharging children with serious infections, and other co-morbidities.
The exciting next stage of this program will be to expand to multiple countries in East and West Africa, with rigorous evaluation. They are looking for an individual with a desire to embrace the complexity of digital health implementation and data-driven predictive modelling in low-resource settings with passion, resilience, and lots of creativity.
Duties
The primary activities include:
- Conducting substantive, methodologically rigorous quantitative research analyses
- Participating in study design, quality assurance testing, documenting coding methods, and interpreting results;
- Act as lead research manager of projects. Extended stay and travel throughout Africa is required.
- Organizing and collecting data – helping coordinate research assistants and staff to support these activities
- Representing the research team to Minister of Health officials
- Working with stakeholder and NGO partners globally
- Contributing to literature reviews and syntheses;
- Writing research abstracts, summary reports, and scientific articles, and submitting articles to peer-reviewed journals;
- Presenting study results to the scientific community at national and international conferences;
- Identifying and pursuing secondary research projects and research funding; and
- Collaborating with the other research teams.
Salary
- The expected pay range for this position is $4,166.67/month to $5,416.67/month.
Eligibility
- Have a PhD in a relevant field
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment
- High personal motivation, self-management, detail-orientated; ability to take responsibility for meeting deadlines
- High degree of comfort with change, and the ability to be agile and adaptable as the projects evolve in large complex health systems and their health technologies.
- The qualified candidate(s) will have training in a relevant discipline (i.e., Epidemiology, Statistics, Biostatistics, Public Health or a related field as long as the candidate has a strong foundation in statistics). Minimum of two years related experience.
- Demonstrated skills in data management and programming using statistical packages (SAS and SQL and occasionally STATA and R);
- Demonstrated knowledge of research processes, systematic reviews, and syntheses;
- Education/training and experience in quantitative research methods, and multivariate statistical analysis;
- Excellent communication skills, including strong writing, research, and interpersonal skills;
- High-level conceptual, analytical, and critical appraisal skills; and
- Demonstrated initiative and willingness to work closely with members of a research team.
- At least 2 years’ experience living/working in low-resource setting.
- Strong relational skills and be able to exert influence and work across sectors (hospitals, primary care and community).
- Ability to work independently and without direct supervision, and problem solve technical and methodological issues that arise during the course of the research.
- Must be able to exhibit a high level of professionalism, judgement, ethical conduct, discretion and diplomacy
Application
Interested individuals should send their curriculum vitae with all relevant employment and academic experience; 1-2 writing samples; and a cover letter, noting research experience and interest in the position to the UBC portal and also by email to [email protected]
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