Position: Research Associate/Senior Research Associate (Qualitative Research)

Organization: The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) 

Location: Gurugram

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Project Brief:

Promoting uptake of Low sodiUm iodized salt by Rural and urban HousehoLds in India: the PLURAl study is a mixed-methods study with two arm non-randomised design. The objective of the study is to estimate the change between the two arms (education on low sodium iodized salt [LSIS] and education on LSIS+subsidy) in the proportion of households consuming LSIS in two sites – Sonipat and Visakhapatnam after implementation of the intervention for six months. The study will have three phases – formative research and intervention development, intervention implementation and evaluation (using the RE-AIM) framework.

Deliverables:

• Help conceptualize the formative phase of the research.
• Develop tools to conduct focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with a diverse range of stakeholders – doctors, patients with hypertension, consumers, manufacturers of low sodium iodized salt, shop keepers, community leaders, etc.
• Conduct focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with stakeholders listed above.
• Manage and analyse the qualitative data to provide critical insights to develop a comprehensive intervention for increasing the uptake of low sodium iodized salt.
• Develop and monitor qualitative indicators of intervention implementation and evaluation.
• Contribute to mixed-methods analysis of the project data.
• Develop manuscripts and reports.
• Any other task assigned by the Supervisor.

Qualification:

Essential:

• Masters in sociology, anthropology or other relevant social sciences

Experience:

Essential

• Around 4-5 years of experience in public health research.

Desirable:

• 3 or more years of experience of conducting qualitative research.
• Analysing the qualitative data and writing the results for publications.