The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions.
We have a vacancy at the Department of Health Sciences in Ålesund (IHA) for a postdoctoral research fellow in the field of evidence-informed health decision making in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The period of employment is for three years (100%).
The position is linked to the three-year interdisciplinary Global Evidence, Local Adaptation (GELA) project. Funded by the European and Developing Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) of the European Union, GELA aims to increase decision makers’ capacity to use global research evidence to develop locally relevant clinical practice guidelines for newborn and child health in three countries in sub-Saharan Africa. NTNU is a partner in this project and Prof. Simon Lewin represents the Department of Health Sciences in this project.
The GELA project will support health decision makers in Malawi, Nigeria and South Africa, and will build on and add value to the large-scale programme of global child health clinical practice guideline development lead by the World Health Organization (WHO). The project will support adaptation and implementation in the three partners countries of WHO guidelines, in collaboration with national ministries and the WHO Afro regional office.
GELA partners will conduct systematic reviews relevant to these guidelines; explore guideline panelists’ experiences with reading and using evidence from systematic reviews of qualitative evidence; and evaluate the impacts of the project on evidence-informed decision making and guideline adaptation processes.
GELA is coordinated by the South African Medical Research Council and includes partners from NTNU, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Western Norway University of Applied Science, Stellenbosch University (South Africa), Cochrane Nigeria at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (Malawi), Cochrane and the Stiftelsen MAGIC Evidence Ecosystem (Norway).
The candidate’s main place of work will be NTNU in Ålesund, Norway but she/he may also spend time at GELA partner institutions during the postdoctoral fellowship.
The candidate should begin by 1 February 2023.