The Linnaeus Centre on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe announces two two-year positions for researchers in an early stage of their academic career.

The positions are for the period 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2010 or as otherwise agreed. The researchers are expected to bring with them plans for their own research linked to the Centre’s research agenda, to collaborate intensively with Centre members on ongoing research projects and to participate in the intellectual life of the Centre.

The Linnaeus Centre on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe is a research program financed for 2008-2018 by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). It is administered at the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), Department of Sociology and led by Professor of Demography Elizabeth Thomson and Associate Professor Gunnar Andersson. The Centre brings together expertise in policy studies and demography from SUDA, the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) and the Department of Human Geography and collaborates with scholars from throughout Europe. The overarching goal is to produce the best evidence for social policy effects on fertility and family change and to communicate this evidence to policy makers and the public. 

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The Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ADSRI) is an exciting new initiative established by the Australian National University in 2007. It aims to retain and enhance the university's position as the leading Australian research and training institution for demography and social research, recognised both nationally and internationally for its work.

ADSRI is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow or Research Fellow to undertake demographic research on a project funded by the ARC/NHMRC concerned with the analysis of pooled data from nine longitudinal studies of ageing to investigate and model health and well-being in later life. Duties involve extracting statistical data from a large dataset, complex longitudinal and demographic analyses, preparing data for modelling, and writing journal articles and technical documents. Research areas include mortality and longevity, healthy life expectancy, partnering and kinship dynamics and living arrangements, and may be related to the health themes of the project, which encompass disabilities, mental health and cognitive decline.

Closing Date: 15 September 2008 For further details about the position, selection criteria, enquiries and how to apply please visit http://adsri.anu.edu.au/employment.php.

International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) has two job openings based in New York, New York, USA:

Program Officer, Southern Africa, Ref. #POSA0808IN, Download job details   

Program Officer, Online Communications and Campaigns, Ref. # OCC0808IN, Download job details

The International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) is making every woman’s right to a just and healthy life a global reality. IWHC shapes international policy and builds local capacity for women’s health and human rights in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We leverage our work in these two very different, but critically linked worlds – to change thinking, redirect funding and motivate action by people and institutions that can secure rights and health for women. This requires a strategy in which:

We advocate and motivate social, political and corporate leaders to enact policies and provide funding for women’s rights and health;

We provide grants and forge professional partnerships with local leaders as they build organizations to secure women’s rights and health, primarily in Africa, Asia and Latin America;

We mobilize women and young people, enabling them to take action to secure their rights, health and well-being; and

We analyze and communicate facts and path-breaking ideas for policy improvement to powerbrokers, health professionals, influentials and other advocates.

PSI Research & Metrics seeks a Deputy Director/Principal Investigator for Qualitative Research to be based in Washington, DC. The Deputy Director/Principal Investigator will supervise DC-based and remote research staff. He/she will also lead PSI’s qualitative research initiatives for formative research and concept development. The goal and purpose of the position is to improve the quality and use of qualitative research for programmatic decision making at field and international levels. The position will require extensive travel (about 30% of time) and reports to the Director of Research & Metrics.

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PSI also seeks a Benin Technical Advisor for HIV responsible for implementing PSI/Benin HIV interventions and service delivery programs. These interventions and programs include HIV counseling and testing, Behavior Change Campaigns (BCC) or Interpersonal Communications (IPC) activities for the general population and targeted programs for most-at-risk populations (such as truckers, Commercial Sex Workers and youth), and franchised clinics providing Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) or Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) services. PSI/Benin works closely with the Ministry of Health, USAID and KfW.  HIV/AIDS work is complemented by other departments implementing malaria, safe water, and diarrhea programs. All activities are supported by messages and campaigns developed in-house and/or in collaboration with advertising agencies.  The HIV/AIDS program implemented community level programs nationwide through local NGOs.  

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Please apply online at www.psi.org.  No calls or emails please.

PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or disability.

Through a generous grant from the Fred H. Bixby Foundation, the Population Council has created the Bixby Fellowship Program to expand opportunities for recently trained population specialists and biomedical researchers from developing countries. The program is highly competitive and offers a limited number of fellowships each year. These fellowships allow recipients to work with experienced mentors in the Council's network of offices.

Fellows work on projects in one of the three of the Population Council's Programs: Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS, and Poverty, Gender and Youth. A description of the program and details about application procedures are available on the Council's website at www.popcouncil.org/slr/Bixby/Bixby_home.html.

The deadline for applications is 15 January, 2009. For more information, please feel free to contact us at: bixbyfellowship@popcouncil.org.

DIRECTOR, RESEARCH & METRICS DEPARTMENT
DATE:    JUNE 2008

Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization, operating in more than 60 low and middle income countries.  PSI creates demand for essential health products and services by using private sector marketing techniques and innovative communications campaigns. On the supply side, PSI works with the commercial, non profit and public sectors to increase access to these products and services to low income and vulnerable populations. With a bottom-line orientation that is rare among non-profits, PSI markets products and services for sexual and reproductive health, malaria, maternal and child health, and tuberculosis.   PSI Research & Metrics aims to improve the performance of PSI interventions through multi-disciplinary research on populations and markets.  For more information, please visit: www.psi.org.org/research

PSI is seeking to fill the position of Director, Research & Metrics at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The Director oversees a large and growing portfolio of research projects and metrics activities based on management information systems and stochastic models in over 60 developing countries, and a multi-disciplinary team of more than 30 researchers.  The position offers a special opportunity to improve the performance of PSI’s behavioral interventions, advance research into the determinants of behavior, improve behavioral research and metrics methods, and improve the capacity of some of the largest interventions influencing behavior in the developing world to make decisions based on evidence. 

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The Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) is a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences in the centre of The Hague. The institute employs about 50 staff members, specialised in various disciplines such as demography, economy, geography, sociology, epidemiology, information management and computer science. Since 1997 NIDI has carried out the so-called ‘Resource Flows’-project commissioned by the United Nations. The project studies global financial flows for population activities in developing countries, particularly in the area of reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. Recently, Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure (OOPE) Surveys are organised and Demographic and Health Surveys are analysed to determine household spending on health care. For this project NIDI will employ an Economist/Econometrician (m/f) full time

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The Social Demography Department also has a vacancy for a Post-Doc Researcher (m/f)

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DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

The Centre for Population Studies is seeking a full time Research Assistant/Research Fellow to work on a Wellcome Trust-funded research project addressing key health consequences of rapid urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa. The post will involve some travel to Kenya.

The RA/RF will have a post-graduate degree in statistics, demography, epidemiology or social sciences, research interests in reproductive and sexual health in Africa and experience of analysis of large data sets. A track record of publication, fluent spoken and written English language skills, and a commitment to working in a team are also required. The salary will be in the range of £29,180 to £36,404 (Academic Pathway Grades 5/6) depending on experience. Excellent conditions include 30 days annual leave plus an additional 6 fixed 'Director's Days', interest free season ticket loan and pension scheme. The post is funded by a Wellcome Trust grant and is available for 22 months.

Further details and information on how to apply are available from
the Personnel Officer,
LSHTM, Keppel Street,
London,
WC1E 7HT
(Tel 020 7927 2203;
Fax 020 7636 4771;
e-mail personnel@lshtm.ac.uk;
or from the School's website at http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/jobs/jc5.ad.html

Please quote reference JC5. Closing date for applications: 5 May 2008. Interviews will be held in London in the week beginning 19 May.

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is an equal opportunities employer.