Junior Research Scientist | Global Public Health Research Foundation

Global Public Health Research Foundation (GPHRF) is a non-profit organisation that aims to improve population health at both global and national levels. The organisation delivers evidence in healthcare through high-quality research and promotes healthy lifestyles. GPHRF is committed to enhancing research capacity to address broad challenges in global health, including maternal and child health, epidemiology, environmental health, food safety and quality control, evidence synthesis, health economics, and universal health coverage.

Post: Junior Research Scientist

Duty station: Dhaka
No. of vacancy: 1 post

Job Description
The Research Assistant/Research Associate will:

• Assist the Director/Research Scientist in the planning, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of data-driven public health research projects.
• Assist in research projects related to machine learning and deep learning, including model development, training, and validation.
• Collect, curate, manage, and preprocess datasets (tabular, text, image, or other health-related data) and ensure data quality and documentation.
• Analyse and interpret quantitative data using appropriate statistical and ML methods, and summarise findings clearly.
• Contribute to writing scientific publications and technical reports.
• Collaborate closely with team members (researchers, data scientists, and public health professionals) on ongoing and new research initiatives, including brainstorming and knowledge dissemination.

Requirements

Educational Qualifications

• BSc or MSc in Computer Science & Engineering (or a closely related field).
• Research and publication experience (conference/journal paper or thesis-based publication).

Technical Qualifications

Programming & Tools

• Strong Python 3.x skills (clean, modular code).
• Experience with Git and working in Linux and CLI environments.

Machine Learning / Deep Learning

• Hands-on experience training supervised models (classification/regression) using libraries such as scikit-learn.
• Practical experience building and training neural networks in PyTorch (or TensorFlow/Keras).
• Understanding of computer vision workflows (e.g., image classification, feature extraction).
• Understanding of NLP workflows (e.g., preprocessing, tokenisation, embeddings, text classification).
• Interest or prior exposure to multimodal vision–text approaches.

Data Handling (Tabular, Text & Image)

• Proficient with pandas and NumPy for loading, cleaning, merging CSV files, and performing basic feature engineering.
• Experience preparing text datasets (cleaning, tokenisation, feature representation).
• Experience loading and preprocessing image datasets using tools such as PIL, OpenCV, or torchvision.

Language Skills: Fluent in spoken and written English.

Application Process: Eligible applicants should follow the link, fill out the required form, and submit the necessary documents. Link: https://forms.gle/YKVK9PwKG149hjeX6

Application Deadline: 5 December 2025

For Further Enquiry: E-mail: [email protected] (No telephone enquiries)

Timeframe: The initial contract will be for 1 year (the first three months considered a probationary period). The contract may be extended based on satisfactory performance.

Remuneration: Gross BDT 35,000–40,000 per month (negotiable based on position and experience), payable based on work progress evaluation.

Notes of Attention

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If no email is received by 15 December 2025 regarding shortlisting, the applicant should consider themselves not shortlisted.
• The organisation reserves the right to appoint at a grade lower or higher than the advertised position based on skills and qualifications.
• GPHRF does not charge any fee at any stage of the recruitment process.
• GPHRF is a smoke-free office.
• No email submissions will be accepted.