Epicentre recruits 01 Tuberculosis Study Coordinator
Epicentre is an organisation created by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 1986. We conduct field epidemiology, training, and research activities for MSF interventions. Our activities for populations in precarious situations are led from Uganda, Niger, and France, and through the programs of MSF and others. They mainly concern infectious diseases and undernutrition.
Context In 1995, Epicentre created a permanent research center in Uganda to support MSF projects in the region. The primary role of Epicentre in Mbarara is to conduct clinical research following Good Clinical Practice (GCP) requirements on critical public health burdens in Uganda and Africa. A full-time experienced research team is based at the Epicentre Mbarara Research Center. The Mbarara research center is located in Mbarara Municipality, 300 km South-West to Kampala. The main health facility is Mbarara National Referral Hospital which is also a teaching hospital for the MUST. This is the referral hospital for the Western region of Uganda with a capacity of 240 beds. The research center is structured into several departments: administration, logistics, laboratory, data management. Seven different studies on tuberculosis are planned or have initiated at Epicentre Mbarara. These studies involve different funders and sponsors but are all implemented by Epicentre Mbarara. The first is an international multicenter controlled clinical trial to evaluate different doses of Rifampicin in the reduction of treatment duration for pulmonary tuberculosis in adults. The second is another multicenter project with 4 different studies to be implemented in phases including working with peripheral sites to increase capacity of TB diagnosis, improving early diagnosis of TB in children with severe pneumonia, validation of diagnostic tools and algorithm HIV-infected children and identification of optimized, suitable, and affordable specimen processing and collection methods for childhood TB diagnosis in resource limited countries. The third project compares different models for tuberculosis screening and preventive therapy in child contacts of high burden and limited resource countries and the fourth project under preparation is a therapeutic trial evaluating an intensified treatment for tuberculosis meningitis in two regional reference hospitals (Mbarara and Kabale).
Mission and responsibilities The Tuberculosis study Coordinator will be responsible for ensuring coordination across studies and with the country principal investigators and project managers in the preparation and implementation of the various TB research projects in coordination with the Director of the research center, and other partners or their designates.
Main activities The Tuberculosis Study Coordinator will support the study principal investigators, senior research assistant and junior research assistants in order to:
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Ville | Mbarara |
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Expériences / Formation du candidat | Candidate requirements
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Experience | 0 à 3 ans |
Fonctions | Gestion de projets/programmes |
Secteurs d’activité | Santé, Autre |
Pays | Afrique, Ouganda |
Salaire / Indemnité | Conditions
Position based in Mbarara, Uganda Short term Contract: minimum 12 months starting ASAP MSF/Epicentre expatriate contract |
Comment postuler | To appply , please fill-in the form on : http://smrtr.io/35n9J |
Postuler en ligne | http://smrtr.io/35n9J |
Date de fin de validité | 12/05/2019 |