Research Fellow with Maternal and Child Nutrition

icddr,b is a Bangladesh-based international health research institute that strives to solve key public health problems through high-quality scientific research and innovation. icddrb, as a values-based organization, encourages women and people with disabilities.
Maternal and Child Nutrition under the Nutrition Research Division is conducting basic research, intervention trials, implementation research, and program evaluation with an aim to reduce maternal, adolescent, and childhood malnutrition. In association with the Government of Bangladesh, pilot schemes implementing treatments for moderate and severe childhood malnutrition are being evaluated. Analysis of the barriers to the effective implementation of maternal nutrition programmes are also in place in this division.
Key Responsibilities:
The Research Fellow reporting to the Principal Investigator will be involved in conducting field-based scientific research on relevant public health issues in the context of nutrition-infection interaction; support the development of successful proposals related to research on maternal and child nutrition; coordination of research activities and develop research protocols from research evidence within the strategy of the center and organizational values and guidelines. S/he will be responsible for: