St. John's Research Institute

Brief Description about the Project 

SJRI is one of the consortium partners of the National Disease Modelling Consortium (NDMC), anchored by IIT Bombay. This is one of the sub objectives of the main project titled: ’Developing Models to Estimate and Project Disease Burden to Inform Control and Elimination Strategies for Priority Diseases in India’ , Funded by ICMR. The objective of this component of the study is to estimate the national as well as subnational burden of NCDs in India using an integrated approach combining available health surveys, administrative data, and advanced statistical model as well as machine leaning methods.

Project Research Scientist II (Non Medical)

No. of Vacancy: One

Preferred Qualifications: PhD or MSc/ MPH or B. Tech/BE

Experience: 3 yrs experience  

Preferred Language: English

Location: Bangalore

Salary: 87,100/- P.M

Age Limit: 40 Years

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Clean and preprocess large datasets (NFHS, NSSO, IHCI, LASI, CRS, SRS, GBD).
• Lead the design of disease burden estimation, ensure the appropriate use of survey/administrative data, interpret findings.
• Apply various statistical model to predict prevalence/incidence and mortality at subnational level.
• Develop, adaptation, and validate statistical and ML models.
• Estimation burden of disease attributed to various risk factors.
• Writing report and research article.

Interested candidates may send their Resume to:

The Principal Investigator

ICMR Burden of Disease IITB Project

SJRI

To Apply: E-mail cover letter and curriculum vitae with 3 references (names and email addresses / phone numbers) by on or before 10th April 2026 shameem.b@sjri.res.in & cc to hr@sjri.res.in

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