The Aga Khan University’s Institute for Global Health and Development (IGHD) was established in the year 2020 to serve as a University-wide entity for providing a unique platform for facilitating strategic engagements and partnerships between AKU, University of Central Asia and the wider Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). IGHD aims to address global health and environmental challenges by creating a multi-disciplinary support system and infrastructure, whereby researchers across campuses and regions can collaborate and contribute.

The IGHD works across four thematic areas, including Sustainable Development Goals (including Broad Social Determinants of Health); Gender Equity and Empowerment; Climate Change, Urban Development, and Health, and; Agriculture, Food Security, and Nutrition.

You will be responsible to:

• conduct interviews individually and write up detailed notes on interviews and observation visits
• manage field work process to ensure effective use of time
• facilitate meetings among the research team and junior research staff
• train junior staff in research/interviewing skills and proper data collection
• visit different household in the communities to ensure the successful completion of data collection including QC
• liaise with admin for logistic arrangements
• raise wider community awareness as per the project guidelines
• perform any other task as assigned by the Supervisor.