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Project Research Scientist II (Non-Medical) ICMR-Estimation of Burden of NCDs Project

Posted on: 18 Nov 2025

Job Summary:

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.

Key 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.

Eligibility Criteria:

No. of Vacancy: One

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

Experience: 3 Years

Age Limit: 40 Years

Language:  English

Salary: Rs.87,100 /-per month

Location: Bangalore

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