Oncopadi Technologies LTD, a Digital Health Innovation Company empowering confident cancer care decisions by patients, clinicians and caregivers is Africa’s first digital and user-friendly cancer care navigation, and resource tool. The objectives of Oncopadi Digital Technologies revolve around
Accelerating and enabling cancer patients to generate and engage their own health data
Building new technologies that improve population health and lower health care barriers in oncology
Creating a collaborative and diverse health care innovation ecosystem to improve cancer care
Designing and implementing a new model of medicine that leverages digital health for cancer care
Oncopadi Tech collaborates with academicians, scientists, physicians and researchers from various academic institutions.
The Research and Development (R&D) unit, Oncopadi Tech is committed to generating new data on cancer care and improving patient outcomes through digital health. Critical to our work is the knowledge that people impacted by cancer can deploy digital health resources to improve their quality of life, health care decision making process and experience.
The R&D unit is accelerating collaborative digital health research in the oncology ecosystem and we are conducting collaborative health care innovation studies in Nigeria.
These studies aim to generate insights that would promote value-based oncology care in Nigeria. Oncopadi has opened the application process for a new digital health and cancer research fellowship, which will support health care researchers to build digital health expertise into their careers and better harness the potential of new digital technologies and practices.
The Fellowship is designed to educate and train individuals with a passion for healthcare innovation in critical issues and processes related to the development and commercialization of digital technologies.
This will be supported by a programme of workshops to stimulate fellows to confidently lead digital health transformations for their health care institutions.
The fellowship is an exciting opportunity for health care innovators (clinical staff, including doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, dentists, healthcare scientists, pharmacists etc), to shape and accelerate the oncology and digital revolution.
The fellowship program will provide fellows with the time to collaborate with clinicians, technologists, entrepreneurs, scientists and patients.
The Oncopadi Digital Health and Cancer Research Fellowship will give candidates an invaluable opportunity for protected time away from academic/clinical commitments to focus on helping shape the ongoing research and development activities of the unit.
Roles and responsibilities
- Lead a digital health research portfolio
- Collaborate with researchers and health care innovators to implement research projects using industry best practices and following all established processes and ethical rules and guidelines
- Develop technically feasible research and grant applications, abstracts, slide presentations, posters, and manuscripts for submission to conferences, and scientific journals, as assigned.
- Maintains a system for tracking and processing all research projects
- Develop project reports
- Design academic courses in health care innovation
Requirements
Relevant Master’s degree in Public Health (MPH) or any other medical-related field. Applicants may be currently enrolled in a PhD program in an academic institution.
Applicants with a Doctorate degree have an added advantage.
Should be able to commit up to 6-12 months full-time to the research fellowship program based in Lagos.
Experience and skills of a suitable applicant
- Has a passion for digital health and health care innovation
- Experienced in developing health-related research and grant proposals
- Experienced in managing research projects according to the project scope, objectives and timeline for execution
- Maintains a system for tracking and processing all research projects
- Experienced in conducting research (qualitative or quantitative) and managing research projects
- Prior experience in the use of statistical software for analysis, and the supervision of students (undergraduate or Masters)
- Experienced in developing academic courses
- Has published papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals and supported grant application
Duration of Fellowship
This fellowship will be tenable for a period of six months and can be renewed for a further period of 6 months based on the assessment by the Principal Investigator.
Commencement date: 1st October 2021
The Fellowship offer is competitive based on prevailing rates in both public and private academic universities in Africa. Up to $4,000 per annum to the fellow.
Application Process
Documents Required for Application
- A duly filled application form
- Current CV
- Statement of purpose
- Copies of undergraduate and postgraduate certificates
- A letter of reference from a source familiar with the applicant’s academic or professional work
Selection Process
Your application will be assessed in terms of your capacity to benefit from the fellowship, using the following kinds of evidence:
- Your research and grant experience and other achievements as an emerging researcher.
- How you will use the fellowship to achieve your professional development as a researcher who can address key health challenges important to Sub-Saharan Africa.
- How you will “cascade”, i.e. to pass on, the knowledge and skills you have gained from the fellowship
- Adequate command of English.
Oncopadi Technologies employs strict measures to ensure equality of opportunity. Oncopadi is committed to providing equal opportunities to all irrespective of age, gender, religion, tribe, ethnicity or nationality, marital status, disability or impairment.
