Jacaranda Health is a start up social enterprise that aims to set a new a new standard for maternity care in East Africa.
They are combining business and clinical innovations to create a self-sustaining and scalable chain of clinics that provide reproductive health services to poor urban women.
Jacaranda Health is looking for a medical student or MPH with experience and interest in maternal health to help us develop evidence-based protocols for our new maternity clinic.
This is an opportunity for an ambitious student or recent graduate to spend three to six months working with some of the most exciting innovations in maternal health.
They have a great team in Nairobi, and good advisors internationally, and would like to have some help from someone who has a combination of a clinical and public health research background.
The Maternal Health Fellow would work with our international clinical advisors, our front-line clinical staff, and our operations manager to help develop a set of clinical protocols that are truly world-class and evidence based.
This will require research, compiling protocols from our library of protocols and academic research in maternal health, and vetting them with our clinical staff in the field.
There will also be an opportunity to get involved in other clinical activities, such as systematizing our clinic processes, working with our partners at Harvard School of Public Health on our impact evaluation, and some of the new technologies that Jacaranda is piloting.
Exposure to all facets of building innovative maternal health organization.
This is a full-time three to six month position, preferably based in Nairobi.
Start date as soon as possible: August or September through November.
The position is a volunteer fellowship, but Jacaranda can offer a stipend for expenses and housing.