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We are looking for a phase 3 registrar to work with their team in Nepal. One year placements would be preferred but shorter time periods are also possible, particularly depending on deanery requirements.

As a registrar working with HERD you would have the opportunity to work on a variety of research and/ or implementation projects.

The projects that HERD are currently working on include:

Urban health:

·  implementation through a primary care clinic based in one of Kathmandu’s largest slums

·  urban health policy development

·  understanding the health needs of the urban poor through cross-sectional household surveys

TB:

·  TB Reach project involving active case finding among vulnerable groups across Nepal using Gene-Xpert diagnostics

·  Developing and testing a patient psychosocial support package among patients with multi-drug resistant TB.

Tobacco:

·  Research and support to government to implement smoking cessation within primary care.

Human Resources for Health:

·  Development and testing of an intervention to improve health worker performance.

Other large cross-sectional studies to assess and inform government and donor policy in areas such as adolescent sexual health, safe motherhood, health sector service provision, human resources.

To date 3 registrars have been placed with HERD - all willing to be contacted to discuss their placements with interested individuals: 2014 – Caroline Rumble (carolinerumble@hotmail.com); 2013 – Katy Scammell (katy.scammell@yahoo.co.uk); 2012 – Helen Elsey (h.elsey@leeds.ac.uk). All have really valued their placement and found they had opportunities that would be hard to find in a developing country / UK placement. A wide range of competencies can potentially be signed off during the HERD placement including under the following key areas: surveillance and assessment, policy and strategy development, collaborative working, health and social service quality, academic public health, and public health intelligence.

If you are interested in working with HERD, in the first instance, please be in touch with Helen Elsey, Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development (NCIHD), University of Leeds: h.elsey@leeds.ac.uk to discuss further. Please send through your CV. You will then be interviewed by Dr Sushil Baral, the Executive Director of HERD.

HERD – We are a dynamic national non-governmental organisation promoting evidence informed policies and practices for sustainable development in health, environment and social sectors to improve quality of life. We are change catalysts as we operate through our ‘3Is’: Intervention – seeing the opportunity; Innovation – changing the course and Impact – bringing the change.