BIGRS Surveillance Coordinator
Background:
Partnering with strong mayors in ten global cities, Vital Strategies and partners works within the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) to reduce injury and death from road crashes, currently, a leading cause of death globally. We support these cities in changing driver behavior, road design and transportation systems, building data systems and implementing strong road safety policies.
Tasks and responsibilities
Background:
Partnering with strong mayors in ten global cities, Vital Strategies and partners works within the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) to reduce injury and death from road crashes, currently, a leading cause of death globally. We support these cities in changing driver behavior, road design and transportation systems, building data systems and implementing strong road safety policies.
Tasks and responsibilities
- Work with appropriate authorities to request and obtain designated datasets
- Conduct data cleaning and management of hospital admissions dataset
- Conduct analyses and prepare tables and maps both for routine review and for special queries.
- Conduct data linkage
- Conduct a capture-recapture analysis
- Work with appropriate local staff to prepare annual Bandung road safety report based on available sources for crash/injury death data, as well as risk factor data
- Promote data use for policy and planning
- Graduate degree in relevant field (e.g., public health, epidemiology, biostatistics) prefered
- 5+ years’ experience in public health (ideally epidemiology) or in data management or analysis related to transportation, public policy
- Quantitative data analysis skills
- Proven capacity to work with colleagues in multidisciplinary or multi-agency setting
- Excellent communication skills
- English language proficiency
How to apply:
Email a 1 page CV to jobs@bigrs.org with the Subject Line of "Bandung BIGRS Surveillance Coordinator"Closing date: 31 May 2016
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