Sangath
Job Overview
Title: Cost Evaluation Supervisor
Project Name: OptimiseD project
Number of Vacancy: (01 position)
Contract Duration: The position will be hired on an annual basis with renewal depending on continued funding and satisfactory performance.
Job Location: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
About Sangath
Sangath is a leading non-profit organization dedicated to transforming healthcare by focusing on mental health and public health initiatives. Our mission is to empower communities through worldclass research, innovative healthcare solutions, and compassion-driven services. We are proud to have recently been recognized with the prestigious "Great Place to Work" award, a testament to our commitment to fostering an inclusive and supportive work culture.
Values
At Sangath, our values form the cornerstone of everything we do. For nearly three decades, we have passionately upheld a belief in the power of empathy, teamwork, and respect for every individual we serve and work with. We are committed to excellence in delivering world-class research and mental health services, backed by professional rigor and cutting-edge technology. Our drive for innovation keeps us forward-thinking, always learning and evolving to solve complex healthcare challenges. We take pride in our unwavering integrity, ensuring transparency, accountability, and ethical practices throughout our work. Finally, we hold performance as a key measure of success, continuously striving for impactful, sustainable solutions. These values have been the backbone of our organization, guiding us on a journey of creating lasting change in the communities we serve.
Benefits
We believe in taking care of our team as much as they care for our mission. Sangath offers a dynamic range of benefits that reflect our commitment to our employees’ well-being and professional growth. These include Provident Fund (PF), ESIC, Gratuity, and comprehensive Medical Insurance, ensuring financial and health security. We offer flexible work timings to promote a healthy work-life balance, along with special leaves such as Menstrual Leave and Gender Affirmation Leave. Our progressive work-from-home policy is designed to give employees the flexibility they need in today’s changing work environment. Joining Sangath means being part of an organization that truly values and supports its people.
About the Project:
The goal of project is to see if we can enhance treatment outcomes for patients with moderate to severe depression by personalizing allocation to one of the two treatments; additionally, we aim to identify those patients who are unlikely to respond to either treatment and should be referred to specialist care. To achieve this, we will use machine learning to develop a precision treatment rule (PTR) based on a wide range of baseline moderators which are feasible to assess in routine care settings. Our primary hypothesis is that those patients randomized by chance to their optimal intervention as indicated by the PTR will be more likely to remit and recover than those who are not. Moreover, we hypothesize that using our PTR to select the optimal treatment for each individual patient will prove to be more cost-effective than leaving things to chance. We also plan to explore secondary questions, such as whether we can enhance our mediation tests by including the PTR in interactions with our purported mediators (moderated mediation). Further, we plan to explore whether we can enhance the prescriptive utility of our PTR via genotyping our sample and calculating polygenic risk scores based on very large sample Genome-Wide Association studies.
This project is funded by the US National Institute of Mental Health, with collaborators from leading organizations including Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, the Broad Institute, AIIMS Bhopal.
Key Responsibilities
Protocol Development:
• Develop protocols for economic/cost data collection, process, and analysis for research studies.
• Create tools for collecting economic data periodically at the patient, facility and institutional levels.
• Design a database for efficient economic/cost data collection and management.
Economic and Cost Evaluation:
• Conduct economic and cost evaluation of intervention development for research studies.
• Perform cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis to assess the impact of interventions.
• Implement the latest methodologies and analytical techniques for economic evaluations.
Data Analysis and Reporting:
• Generate high-quality deliverables, including data tables, graphs, charts and study reports.
• Produce regular reports to track project status and ensure timely completion of studies/analyses.
• Draft economic/cost/effectiveness analysis reports and manuscripts for publication.
Communication and Collaboration.
• Effectively communicate research findings internally and externally, as appropriate (e.g., congresses, publications).
• Collaborate with the Principal Investigator, Director of Projects, and other stakeholders to ensure project timelines are met.
• Support other research activities across projects at the Bhopal hub.
Capacity Building:
• Contribute to capacity building of colleagues within Sangath on health economics and costeffectiveness methodologies.
• Share knowledge and provide guidance on economic evaluation techniques.
Qualifications and Experience Essential Criteria:
• Master's degree or higher in Health Economics, Economics, Public Health or a related field.
• Experience in Quantitative data collection.
• Experience in public health, mental health and/or implementation research projects in India.
• Interest in (the economics of) mental health and well-being.
• Fluency in English and Hindi.
• Willingness to relocate to Bhopal. Desirable Criteria:
• Strong knowledge of health economics and economic evaluation methods.
• Proficiency in data analysis software (e.g., STATA, R, or SAS) and database management.
• At least 1 to 2 years experience in conducting economic and cost effectiveness analysis.
• Experience of working within the Indian public health system, and with academic collaborators.
Remuneration and Contractual Duration
The remuneration for this position will be commensurate with qualifications and experience, in accordance with Sangath’s salary policy. The position includes a six-month probation period, with the possibility of extending for an additional year based on performance.
(Immediate hiring) Equal Opportunity Sangath is an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We value all employees, regardless of gender, caste, religion, disability, or sexual orientation, and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.
