Early Post-Doctoral Researcher – Hospital Workforce and Service Delivery
We have an exciting opportunity for someone to contribute to research at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KWTRP), a leading research centre in Africa dedicated to investigating the primary causes of ill health and the development of health care systems on the continent. At KWTRP, we are not only committed to advancing scientific knowledge but also to fostering local research leadership.
In a new project, the Health Services Unit at KWTRP Nairobi is collaborating with researchers at Oxford University and elsewhere to explore how County / Sub-County Hospitals in Kenya and District Hospitals in Uganda and South Africa might best support Universal Health Coverage in the future. This work is termed Africa’s First Referral Hospitals: Innovation and Care (AFRHiCARE) Partnership. The proposed research will focus especially on the roles and development of the hospital workforce and key types of professionals (doctors, nurses, clinical officers, pharmacists and allied health professionals), how the workforce is managed and the effects this has on hospital culture, worker performance and well-being, and how technologies are re-shaping services and the work health professionals do.
The Post-Doctoral Research Assistant would join a senior, cross-national team and so will have both management and scientific roles as outlined below.
We expect the work may be of interest to those with different disciplinary backgrounds as there is scope to shape a person specific area of work and/or transition to work on health services / health workforce research for an excellent candidate who has developed their research skills in a different field . For example, applicants might have a PhD in areas such as: epidemiology; public health / health systems; (health) economics; or social science.
The new Post-Doctoral Research Assistant position will be within the Health Services Unit of the KWTRP in Nairobi and they will get supervision and support from PIs and others in the AFRHiCARE team. The AFHRiCARE Partnership is a collaborative effort between these well-established researchers from KWTRP in Kenya and the Universities of Oxford, Witwatersrand, and Makerere. AFHRiCARE is funded by Wellcome as a 5-year partnership to generate new evidence that will inform the roles, workforce requirements, skill-mix, and use of technologies needed to deliver high-quality healthcare as part of Universal Health Coverage.
We welcome applications from those wishing to develop their career in health services / health systems research and who wish to make a meaningful impact on healthcare in Africa as part of a dynamic research environment in Kenya that is linked to a wider network of scientific excellence.