Admissions open For Masters 2025

Institution: HRIDAY, New Delhi

Duration: 1-2 years

Overview: The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has recently awarded the Public Health foundation of India and the University of Leicester to establish a Global Health Research Centre for Multiple Long-Term conditions (MLTCs). HRIDAY is one of the co-applicant institutions that will be leading the work on community engagement and involvement component of the overall grant. MLTCs are commonly defined as the co-existence of two or more long term conditions, each of which is a long-term physical (e.g., diabetes), mental (e.g., depression) or an infectious disease (Hepatitis C). According to recent community surveys from India, the prevalence of MLTCs ranges from 9.4% to 65%. Age, female gender, lower socio-economic status, and physical activity are the main risk factors for MLTCs.

Despite its growing burden, MLTCs have received minimal recognition from healthcare providers and policymakers. Health systems are still focused on individual disease management rather than having an integrated care model, resulting in the delivery of fragmented and inefficient care. The Centre aims to address some of these issues via co-designing, implementing, and evaluating a patient-centered health system intervention comprising a decision support system, assisted telemedicine and patient facing mobile application.

The training programme aims to create a cohort of independent researchers from diverse backgrounds. Trainees will be linked to Health Data Research UK, UoL Real World Evidence Unit and the Centre for BME Health to gain additional exposure and will be trained in analysing large data sets such as the NFHS and DLHS surveys. Post training, they will be supported to apply for competitive research grants to generate evidence from their settings and apply it to intervention development, implementation and evaluation. They will submit biannual progress reports and closure reports to the Centre’s leadership on progress and challenges. The mentors will provide feedback on trainees’ performance and opportunities for further development. Trainees will be required to prepare at least one first-author peer-reviewed journal publication.

HRIDAY is pleased to announce applications for two Masters courses offered by Brunel University, UK

1. Health Economics and Health Policy MSc Online

Link: https://onlinestudy.brunel.ac.uk/health-economics-and-health-policy-msc-online-gen-org

2. Public Health and Health Promotion MSc Online

Link: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/study/courses/public-health-and-health-promotion-msc

Basic Qualification: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in health medicine, dentistry, nursing, nutrition, public health, statistics or biostatistics, demography, economics. The center will fund tuition fees for the selected candidates.

Skills and competencies

• Highly motivated with an eye for detail.
• Strong technical skills with a breadth of knowledge and some in-depth understanding of research area to be explored.
• Proficient (or willingness to build skill) in using software for quantitative (Stata or R), qualitative (Nvivo) or mixed method analysis.
• Track record of high-quality research (e.g., at least 2 publications in peer-reviewed journals).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and one local language where the work will be done.
• Willingness and ability to work in teams and individually.

How to apply: Please email the following documents as one single PDF to arun@hriday-shan.org latest by 10 June 2025.

1. Curriculum vitae or bio sketch indicating the following:
   1. Full name, address, e-mail ID and contact number
   2. Educational qualifications
   3. Work experience
   4. List of publications
   5. Conference presentations
   6. Contact information of two referees
   7. Statement of purpose explaining why you want to pursue this program (1-page).