Nafasi za Kazi za Kujitolea Ifakara Health Institute
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Job Summary Position: Interns (6 posts) with MSc & PhD opportunities Reports to: Program Coordinator
Work station: Dar es Salaam
Apply by: June 5, 2020
Institute overview
Ifakara Health Institute (IHI) is a leading research organization in Africa with a strong track record in developing, testing and validating innovations for health. Driven by a core strategic mandate for research, training and services, the Institute’s work now spans a wide spectrum, covering biomedical and ecological sciences, intervention studies, health-systems research and policy translation.
Position Summary
IHI in collaboration with various partners plans to implement an Internship Program on Infectious Diseases Modelling: Software Development, Data Management & Analysis, and mathematical Modelling with MSc and PhD opportunities – as detailed in the program document (attached). This program will be hosted by the Training and Capacity Building Unit at IHI with initial support from Pan-African Mosquito Control Association (PAMCA). Therefore, the Institute is looking for six (6) qualified candidates to join an internship program and potentially MSc and PhD programs. Candidates might also be required to support some of on-going research projects in a related field and trained to work on attracting grants to support their own MSc and PhD programs.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Enhance your understanding of the mosquito biology and related field
• Enhance programming skills by working on specific projects
• Enhance data management and analysis skills
• Enhance mathematical modelling skills
• Gain experience on how to participate in a team of research scientists
• Gain training on how to write research grants
• Participate in writing reports, scientific manuscripts, and other outputs to disseminate results in technical working group, local and international conferences, peer-reviewed journals
• Seek support from senior scientist to apply for grant to support masters and Ph.D. programs
• Provide support to undertake different review related to infectious disease modelling projects
• Assist with any other duties as directed by program coordinator
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