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Khushi Baby, a global health organization at the forefront of India’s public health transformation, is hiring a Public Health Associate to join our Climate Health Vulnerability Index (CHVI) initiative.

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You will work at the frontline of the climate × health intersection—visiting vulnerable hotspots, validating hospital records, and engaging with community and facility-level health staff. Your insights will directly inform CHVI tools and dashboards developed by our data science team, supporting state and district-level public health action.

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As part of a dynamic and impact-driven team, you will contribute to India’s first village-level climate-health vulnerability assessment, integrating data-driven decision-making into government health systems. This role is pivotal in validating real-world health data and building evidence on climate-health vulnerabilities across Rajasthan. Join us in shaping resilient health systems through innovation, evidence, and on-ground impact

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Join us in shaping resilient health systems through innovation, evidence, and on-ground impact

Responsibilities

• Travel to districts across Rajasthan, visiting CHVI-identified heat, air pollution, and vector-borne disease hotspots.
• Conduct field validation by reviewing facility-level hospital records and correlating them with CHVI-generated vulnerability and exposure data.
• Engage with frontline and facility-level staff including ASHA workers, CHOs, ANMs, MOs, and district officials to gather qualitative and quantitative inputs.
• Support Health Management Information System (HMIS) data validation efforts and cross-reference findings with the central data science team.
• Document on-ground insights to improve CHVI model accuracy and ensure tools are grounded in public health realities.
• Provide feedback on tool usability and local applicability of climate-health insights.
• Assist in training sessions and stakeholder consultations as needed.

Experience:

• A Master’s degree in Public Health, Community Health, Health Administration, or a related discipline.
• At least 1 year of field experience working within public health systems, preferably involving government engagement or health data collection.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport with ground-level health workers and facility staff.
• Comfort with extensive travel across urban and rural parts of Rajasthan (up to 60–70% of the time).
• Familiarity with HMIS and experience navigating hospital records and/or public health datasets.
• Hindi language skills required.

You’ll stand out with

• Prior experience working with government officials and NHM data sets
• Publications with mixed-methods research
• Prior experience working with mHealth / digital health projects
• Excellence in English writing and communication
• Demonstrated work / experimentation in prompt-engineering for tools like ChatGPT

Remuneration

CTC : ₹5.5 – ₹8 LPA (depending on experience and skills)

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Flexible work policies for those menstruating, needing time for grievance of a loved one, religious fasting, etc
• Monthly field visits, annual retreat
• Learning opportunities with world-class research institutions (Yale, Harvard)
• Learning Stipend Policy
• Sponsored Workshops and Seminars
• Travel allowance and reimbursement

How to apply

• To apply for the above position, please send your detailed CV to careers@khushibaby.org mentioning subject line: “Application for Public Health Associate – CHVI, Jaipur”