Senior Research Fellow (Quantitative Research Scientist – CHILD)

An exciting position is available with the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine’s Centre for Holistic Initiatives for Learning and Development (CHILD) for an enthusiastic, collaborative senior research fellow (research scientist) with strong quantitative skills. The scientist will work within highly transdisciplinary teams across multiple projects aiming to support families and early child development. A primary, but not exclusive, focus would be the DADSCAN (Dads Advancing Data for development of Singaporean Children and Adolescents Now!) project. DADSCAN is a joint endeavor with A*STAR’s Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS) that seeks to accelerate context-specific insights from world-class, population-based, parent-child cohorts towards scalable interventions, with a specific focus on the father’s role in preconception to early child health and development .

The incumbent would be primarily responsible for three main roles:

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The incumbent must have a strong passion for child health and rigorous translational public health science with a background that enables fluent trans-disciplinary cooperation, collaboration, and consultation. A broad understanding of quantitative methods across social and biological sciences is a must with deep experience in one or more domains. Experience managing studies including IRB submissions and research instrument development, working with interventional and non-interventional (cohort) follow-up studies, and managing highly diverse data (i.e. questionnaire, psychometric, behavioral, MRI, genomic, molecular) are essential. The incumbent must be flexible and pro-active in managing team work, multiple objectives, and deadlines.

Job Description

In return, the incumbent will participate in highly dynamic and innovative work with the goal of improving the lives of families and children in Singapore using the best of data and methods from discovery and translational sciences. CHILD partners broadly with academic, public sector, and civil society stakeholders to deliver rigorous, practicable, and sustainable change. The incumbent will also have access to an unprecedented data source with multimodal data on parents and children from up to three longitudinal birth cohort studies (GUSTO, N = ~1200 enrolled; S-PRESTO, N = ~1000 enrolled; and MAMS, N = ~2000 anticipated) and a local and international network of clinicians, researchers, and practitioners. The incumbent will have opportunities to develop, conduct, and present original research as well as interact with local and global stakeholders. The incumbent will not have teaching responsibilities.