GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Vacancy Announcement: Junior Research Scientist

Published on: 22 Nov, 2025

Vacancy Announcement

Global Public Health Research Foundation (GPHRF) is a non-profit organization that aims to improve population health at both global and national levels. At GPHRF, we deliver evidence in healthcare through high-quality research and promote 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.

To deliver this mission, GPHRF is dedicated to:

• Conducting cutting-edge research
• Building active partnerships with government, NGOs, and the public
• Disseminating policy-relevant findings
• Training the next generation of students, researchers, and professionals

Post: Junior Research Scientist

Objective: To support the conduct of scientific research on public health issues within the strategic framework of GPHRF.

Duty station - Dhaka

No. of vacancy - 1 posts

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 (e.g., tabular, text, image, or
  other health-related data) and ensure data quality and documentation.
• Analyze and interpret quantitative data using appropriate statistical and ML
  methods, and summarize findings clearly.
• Contribute to writing scientific publications, 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 ::

Required educational qualifications -

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

 

Required Technical Qualifications -

Programming & Tools >

●      Strong Python 3.x skills (clean, modular code).
●      Experience with Git and working in Linux + 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, or similar CV tasks).
●      Understanding of NLP workflows (e.g., text preprocessing, tokenization, embeddings, or text classification).
●      Interest or prior exposure to multimodal vision–text approaches (e.g., combining image and text features in a single pipeline).

Data Handling (Tabular, Text & Image) >

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

Language Skills

●      Fluent in spoken and written English.

Apply here:

If you think you are eligible for this position, please follow the link and fill out the necessary form, and submit the necessary documents.

Link:

https://forms.gle/YKVK9PwKG149hjeX6

Application deadline: December 5, 2025

For Further inquiry:

E-mail: hr@gphrf.org (No inquiries by telephone) 

Timeframe: 

The initial contract will be for a period of 1 year (the first three months will be considered as a probationary period). The job contract will be extended depending on satisfactory performance. 

Remuneration: 

Gross BDT 35,000-40,000 (Negotiable based on position and experience) per month for the entire period which would be payable based on work progress evaluation. 

Notes of attention:

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not receive any email regarding "shortlist" by 15th December 2025, please consider that you are not shortlisted.
• The Organization reserves the right to make an appointment at a grade lower/higher than that 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.