About the Company:

The organisation enables young Indians to pursue high-impact, purpose-driven careers in nation building. It believes in the power of youth to drive collective change and provides young professionals with the platform to create societal impact. NationBuilding Foundation of India drives interventions to address the most pressing challenges affecting India across priority themes, with sports and health among its focus areas.

NationBuilding Foundation of India is looking for an experienced public health researcher or policy professional to lead research at the intersection of preventive health, public policy, and governance in India.

You will lead the Preventive Healthcare Verticals research function, providing technical and intellectual leadership across research, evidence generation, and policy advisory to ensure that our work is scientifically rigorous, policy-relevant, and grounded in the realities of Indias public health landscape.

Key responsibilities:

- Setting the organisations preventive health research agenda

- Leading evidence generation and analytical research, including literature reviews, evidence synthesis, health systems research, and cost-effectiveness modelling

- Building institutional research capability

- Tracking emerging evidence and methodological developments

- Training and mentoring generalist policy team members

- Building relationships with health researchers, public health experts, academicians, health administrators, medical practitioners and allied professionals

- Engaging with government stakeholders, clients, and allied institutions

- Supporting publications, podcasts, workshops, and other public-facing advocacy efforts

Eligibility criteria:

- 5-10 years of relevant experience in preventive healthcare research, epidemiology, health systems research, health policy, population health, or allied research domains, with a demonstrated track record of leading research programmes and policy-facing work.

- A postgraduate or doctoral qualification from a tier I or tier II institute in Medicine, Public Health, Community Medicine, Health Policy, Epidemiology, Health Economics, or Nutrition.

- Demonstrated experience working with or within government health and research institutions, such as ICMR, NCDC, MoHFW, NHM, NITI Aayog, or equivalent public sector institutions.

- Demonstrated expertise in research methodology, evidence synthesis, epidemiological analysis, disease burden estimation, health systems research, economic evaluation, quantitative modelling, and scientific writing.

- A strong publication and policy portfolio, including peer-reviewed publications, technical reports, government publications, or policy papers.

- Experience leading research teams or programmes, including mentoring researchers, setting research priorities, managing quality assurance processes, and building institutional research capability.

- Established relationships with government institutions, academia, development partners, or multilateral organisations.

- Exceptional analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to identify priority research questions, critically evaluate evidence, and develop actionable, policy-relevant recommendations.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated experience authoring policy papers, technical reports, ministerial briefs, grant proposals, and presentations.

- Ability to build and sustain strategic partnerships, collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-impact policy environment.

Role location:

This is a full-time, in-office role based in Gurugram, Haryana.