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Call for volunteers: Graduate Students for TECCHI
CES Ontario has received the following request for graduate students enrolled in Public Health, Public Policy, or other Social Science programs: As part of our growing partnerships with institutes in India, we are looking for a few graduate students for volunteer positions to work on multiple projects on maternal health, nutrition, women’s empowerment, and health systems strengthening. Travel to India is not required; there will be occasional teleconference meetings scheduled with research partners in India.
About the Evaluation Centre: The Evaluation Centre for Complex Health Interventions (TECCHI), established in 2010, contributes to an enhanced learning and accountability culture for improving health outcomes in Ontario and globally. The growing focus on learning and accountability in Canada and internationally has resulted in an increasing need for evaluation approaches to understand if policies and programs work, how they work and what can be done in planning and implementation to make them work. We work with policy-makers, planners and implementers to integrate evaluation approaches and evaluative thinking to more comprehensively understand the impacts of policy and programmatic interventions. Responding to the complexity of interventions requires a range of evaluation approaches and a mix of methods. We implement a range of evaluation approaches including realist, developmental and impact evaluations.
About this volunteer opportunity: These volunteer positions are open to individuals who are in Graduate Programs in Public Health, Public Policy, or other Social Sciences. For each of these positions, key prerequisites include: an understanding of health systems, experience in conducting literature reviews, and experience with evaluation. This opportunity may especially appeal to graduate students interested in Global Health. There would be great potential for this opportunity to be used for a thesis or dissertation that focusses on problems and solutions of real significance in nutrition, maternal health, women’s empowerment and health systems strengthening.
Maternal health: This project would require statistical analysis of data on maternal and child health in India. For this position we are looking for an individual with experience conducting statistical analysis using one of the major programs (SAS, Stata, SPSS, or R).
Nutrition: This project will explore a systems and multi-component approach to building capacities in Indian villages to improve nutritional practices and behaviours. Experience in conducting research or evaluation in nutrition, particularly in developing countries, would be preferred.
Health systems strengthening: This project will seek to build a theory-informed measurement system to assess the progress of interventions focused on strengthening health systems. Experience with the literature on health systems strengthening and theory-driven evaluation would be preferred.
Women’s empowerment: This project will conduct a realist synthesis on a well-defined intervention that seeks to build empowerment among women in disadvantaged communities in India, and also will seek to explore the multiple definitions of empowerment and the multiple pathways by which empowerment can be enhanced. Experience in projects focused on gender equity and theory-driven evaluation would be preferred.
If you are interested in any of these projects or have any questions, please contact Claudeth White at whitec@smh.ca by February 15th, 2019. Attach a recent CV, letter of interest, and an academic writing sample.
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