The Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) strives to advance science and health for all, through innovative research, advanced education, capacity-building and capacity-sharing with partner institutions in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Within ITM, the Department of Public Health aims to improve the understanding of interlinked determinants of population health, including system-level, sociocultural, ecological and biological; to develop, implement and evaluate interventions that support and strengthen health of individuals and communities; and to co-create knowledge and capacity to contextualise, prevent, detect and adapt to local and global health challenges and threats.
One major academic field at the Department of Public Health is Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH). This Group aims to contribute to the improvement of sexual, reproductive, and maternal health of populations primarily (but not only) in low resource settings, by collaborations in innovative research, advanced education, policy support and capacity-strengthening. We use quantitative, qualitative, and mixed method inter-disciplinary approaches (e.g. epidemiology, sociology, anthropology, psychology, demography) to understand vulnerabilities as an evidence base towards improving outcomes.
Within this dynamic and interdisciplinary environment, there is an exciting opportunity for a Professor to establish and lead a new research unit in the field of Child and Adolescent Health.
The Professor of Child and Adolescent Health will be working closely with ITM colleagues in the three Departments, and with ITM partner institutions. They will (further) develop and lead a comprehensive portfolio of research, education, and capacity building in the field of child and adolescent health. Topics of research which would in particular strengthen the ITM’s policy plan include (but are not necessarily limited to):
- Life-course approaches to child and adolescent health, including nutrition, lifestyle, infections, non-communicable diseases
- Equitable access to high quality preventive and curative care, including (novel) vaccinations, and
- Determinants of health and vulnerability (urbanization, conflicts and migration, gender, climate change etc.)
