Senior Research Fellow - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

Roles & Responsibilities

Job Description

Duke-NUS Medical School (“Duke-NUS”) is Singapore’s only graduate medical school with Signature Research Programmes in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Health Services and Systems Research, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, and Neuroscience and Behavioural Disorders. Singapore Health Services (“SingHealth”) is the largest provider of medical services in Singapore, with a network of acute hospitals, national specialty centres, community hospitals and polyclinics offering over 40 clinical specialties. It aims to drive the transformation of healthcare and provide affordable, accessible and quality healthcare. Together, they form the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre.

The Centre for Outbreak Preparedness (“COP”) at Duke-NUS works across Signature Research Programmes and centres to advance regional health security in low resourced countries across Asia. A key pillar of COP’s outbreak response and preparedness efforts in the region is through strengthening access and capacity for pathogen genomic surveillance. Duke-NUS is the secretariat for the Asian Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Asia PGI), which works with national and academic institutions from 15 countries across the Asian region to improve early detection through pathogen genomics. The Asia PGI Training Academy was established in 2023 to provide regional participants technical laboratory (wet lab) and bioinformatics (dry lab) training in pathogen genomics.

The Emerging Infectious Diseases (“EID”) is a Signature Research Programme of Duke-NUS. Through research, EID aims to pioneer the development and discovery of new and more effective methods for the detection, treatment, prevention and control of new and emerging pathogens. EID research work also leads to discovery and testing of new diagnostic tests, treatments and control strategies (such as vaccines). EID is also working towards developing partnerships throughout the region with the development of laboratory and epidemiologic capacity, training scientists and physicians from partnering countries to make Singapore a viable surveillance hub for emerging infectious diseases.

The position of Senior Research Fellow will have the responsibility of serving as technical lead for the Asia PGI Academy. The position will report to the COP Director. It will be full time with COP, through with an academic link to EID. As Asia PGI Academy lead, the position will oversee capacity building (training), partner engagement and research in the pathogen genomics and related areas.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to the following :

• Ensure that the trainings are managed and executed in an effective and efficient manner, while adhering to all legislative, policy, procedural and scientific guidelines. This work will include coordination of some training and research activities across COP’s workstreams (health system planning, costing, legal and governance), several programmes within Duke-NUS, other Singapore partners and international experts including the World Health Organization and the International Pathogen Surveillance Network. This work will involve some travelling for training, research and conference purposes.
• Conduct research in pathogen surveillance, emergencies and novel tool development, with a focus on both laboratory and bioinformatic analyses to generate high-quality research data.
• Contribute to virtual learning platforms, including scheduled virtual webinars on pathogen genomics, and ensuring the academy’s database and learning management system content is up-to-date.
• Develop and support an on-line portal of training materials for regional partners.
• Support innovations in AI-enabled training and decision support, including potential expansion of VR and XR related training
• Supervise, train and coordinate work of designated staff on trainings, and research projects.
• Contribute to research, writing and coordinating of grant application process and management of proposals.
• Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein, including contributing to occasional admin and coordination activities.

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Genomics

Hospitals

Capacity Building

Treatment

Healthcare

Infectious Diseases

Grant Writing

Epidemiology

Cell Biology

Neuroscience

Preparedness

Writing

Bioinformatics

Prevention

Laboratory

Virtual Learning