George Institute for Global Health at University of Oxford University of Oxford New Richards Building Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive Oxford OX3 7LF United Kingdom T: +44 1865 617 203 F: +44 1865 617 202 [email protected] www.georgecentre.ox.ac.uk Job description and selection criteria Job title Executive Director, The George Institute for Global Health, China and James Martin Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford Division Medical Sciences Department Nuffield Department of Population Health Location The George Institute at the University of Oxford, Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford (30%) and The George Institute at Peking University Health Science Center, Haidian District, Beijing (70%) Grade and salary Competitive Salary (RSIV grade) Hours Full time Contract type Fixed term, 5 Years Reporting to Principal Director, The George Institute for Global Health Vacancy reference Introduction The University of Oxford is a complex and stimulating organisation, which enjoys an international reputation as a world-class centre of excellence in research and teaching. It employs over 10,000 staff and has a student population of over 20,000. Most staff are directly appointed and managed by one of the University’s 130 departments or other units within a highly devolved operational structure - this includes 5,600 ‘academic- related’ staff (postgraduate research, computing, senior library, and administrative staff) and 2,700 ‘support’ staff (including clerical, library, technical, and manual staff). There are also over 1,600 academic staff (professors, readers, lecturers), whose appointments are in the main overseen by a combination of broader divisional and local faculty board/departmental structures. Academics are generally all also employed by one of the 38 constituent colleges of the University as well as by the central University itself. Our annual income in 2011/12 was £1,016.1m. Oxford is one of Europe's most innovative and entrepreneurial universities: income from external research contracts exceeds £409m p.a., and more than 80 spin-off companies have been created. For more information please visit www.ox.ac.uk Affiliated with Medical Sciences The Medical Sciences Division is an internationally recognized centre of excellence for biomedical and clinical research and teaching. We are the largest academic division in the University of Oxford. World-leading programmes, housed in state-of-the-art facilities, cover the full range of scientific endeavour from the molecule to the population. With our NHS partners we also foster the highest possible standards in patient care. For more information please visit: http://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk Nuffield Department of Population Health The Nuffield Department of Population Health is part of the Medical Sciences Division of Oxford University. It conducts internationally renowned research into the factors affecting population health worldwide and into the prevention and treatment of disease. For more information please visit: http://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/ The George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford The George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford has been established as a joint venture between The George Institute for Global Health (headquartered in Sydney, Australia) and the Oxford Martin School of the University of Oxford. It is situated within the Nuffield Department of Population Health of the Medical Sciences Division at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. The vision of the founders is to create the world’s pre-eminent translational research facility devoted to global health. The George Institute at Oxford is building a major new program of research and development focused on the health priorities of China, India and other large emerging economies. These countries, while geographically and culturally disparate, have many shared healthcare needs, such as practical solutions for the control of diabetes and other chronic health conditions, the prevention and management of road injury and other trauma and the provision of rehabilitation services. In an effort to find such solutions, The George Institute at Oxford is working with partners around the world to establish four complementary streams of research and development. The first, entitled Healthcare Innovation, strives to develop innovative approaches to the delivery of essential affordable health services in primary care clinics and hospitals across a range of resource poor settings worldwide. The second, entitled Affordable Health Technologies, focuses on facilitating the development of effective affordable health care products tailor-made for the world’s major populations, including those of China and India. The remaining two streams of work focus specifically on developing collaborative research between the University of Oxford and colleagues in China and India respectively. In each of these four areas of endeavour, the specific activities undertaken involve substantial end-user input to ensure that the Institute’s research projects answer priority questions of the funders, providers and consumers of healthcare in relevant regions. In addition, each of the streams seek academic input from a wider range of disciplines than has normally characterised biomedical research and development: specifically, we involve experts in social sciences, economic sciences and engineering sciences from a range of countries including China and India. Finally, each stream includes a capacity development programme, the major goal of which is to support the development of expertise in healthcare innovation for the populations of the world’s major emerging economies. Affiliated with The George Institute at Oxford will also become the main European hub of The George Institute for Global Health, an international not-for-profit health research organization devoted to finding solutions for the major health challenges facing disadvantaged populations in both higher and lower income countries. The George Institute for Global Health was established just over a decade ago and today has annual revenues of about £40 million and employs more than 350 people across its facilities in the UK, Australia, China and India. In each of these countries the Institute has a primary academic partner; in the UK it is the University of Oxford, in the Australia it is the University of Sydney; in China it is Peking University Health Science; and in India it is the University of Hyderabad. All these academic partners are world-class research-based universities. The George Institute’s global research and development program is focused around four themes: Chronic & Critical Conditions, Injury Frailty & Disability, Healthcare Innovation, and Health of Disadvantaged Populations. The George Institute at Oxford will contribute to all these themes. The George Institute for Global Health at Peking University Health Science Center, China The George Institute for Global Health has been conducting research and related activities in China since 2002. The George Institute was established as a separate wholly owned legal entity in China in 2007. The George Institute’s mission in China mirrors that of the global organisation, namely the discovery and implementation of solutions to chronic and disabling health problems through research, policy development and capacity building. The George Institute in China has an institutional affiliation with Peking University Health Science Center. The George Institute in China, located in Beijing, comprises two main operating groups: Research and Development and Infrastructure and Resources. In addition, a social enterprise of The George Institute for Global Health - George Clinical – is co-located with The George Institute China. George Clinical is focused on the delivery of clinical trial programmes for both the Institute and for commercial sponsors and reports to an executive team in Sydney. Together, these groups oversee the conduct of a number of large-scale projects in China, funded by a diverse group of sponsors, both public and private. Currently there are about 70 employees working for both organisations, with additional staff contracted on individual projects. Oxford Martin School The Oxford Martin School was founded as the James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford in 2005 through the vision and generosity of Dr James Martin. The School is a unique, interdisciplinary research initiative addressing key global future challenges. The School is working on the frontiers of knowledge in four broad areas: health and medicine; energy and environment; technology and society; and ethics and governance. Institutes, Programmes and individuals (known as James Martin Fellows) that receive funding are members of the Oxford Martin School. Together they constitute a unique, Affiliated with interdisciplinary community of scholars who collectively are tackling the challenges of the 21st century. For more information please visit: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk Ethos The George Institute at Oxford aims to undertake research and develop capacity in an effort to improve the health of disadvantaged and vulnerable populations worldwide. Its focus is on innovative strategies that are affordable and accessible to a wide cross-section of communities for whom such strategies may be worthwhile. The Centre seeks to recruit staff who share this interest and wish to pursue it in a mutually supportive and caring environment. We strongly believe in the pursuit of excellence