Research Assistant/Associate (Dept of Surgery)

Department of Surgery at the National University of Singapore (NUS) invites applications for full-time Research Associate/Assistant to support faculty members in the area of health services/biomedical research. The position is a 1-year contract in the first instance and could be extended with good performance.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The Research Associate/Assistant will be responsible to, and work closely with, the Principal Investigator (PI) and study team members to ensure the successful completion of the various research projects on time. The Research Associate/Assistant may be deployed either in NUH or other collaborating sites (e.g. Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Sengkang General Hospital, National University Polyclinics), and will be exposed to a range of health services research, population health research, human biomedical research, and clinical trials.

The team's currently active projects include understanding patients' and spouses' quality-of-life during colorectal cancer treatment, barriers and facilitators to cancer screening, understanding perceptions towards obesity and community weight management, and acceptance of telemedicine initiatives in primary and tertiary healthcare settings.

The Research Associate/Assistant’s principal roles will be to contribute to general research activities such as recruitment, data collection, administration of questionnaires, project coordination, data entry, verification, and analysis.

The Research Associate may additionally be required to contribute to the drafting of academic manuscripts, research grant proposal writing, and training of junior staff.