Director Medical Research jobs

Intelehealth is an international non-profit committed to improving access to primary health care in underserved regions of the world through its innovative technology platform. Intelehealth can be used by health organizations to set up high quality primary health care programs connecting patients in remote and rural communities to doctors.

We believe work should be meaningful as well as enriching. At Intelehealth, we’re taking on one of the world’s biggest development’s challenge - solving the health access gap for last mile populations. We believe in creating and maintaining an organizational culture of innovation which is conducive for the incredible people who work with us.

This is a remote position.

1. Clinical Leadership & Strategy

• Provide strategic clinical leadership across Intelehealth’s digital health and telemedicine programs
  
• Guide clinical quality standards and governance mechanisms across programs and geographies
  
• Support governments and partners in strengthening primary healthcare systems using digital innovations
  
• Lead clinical strategy for maternal health, child health, NCDs, infectious diseases, and comprehensive primary healthcare programs

2. Clinical Protocols & Decision Support Systems

• Lead development and validation of:
  a. Clinical protocols
  b. Digital clinical workflows
  c. Triage algorithms
  d. Referral pathways
  e. Clinical decision-support systems
  
• Adapt WHO and country specific national clinical guidelines into digital workflows
  
• Ensure protocols are evidence-based, clinically safe, and operationally feasible
  
• Support localization of protocols across different country contexts

3. AI in Healthcare

• Provide clinical leadership for AI-enabled healthcare solutions
  
• Provide clinical leadership for deployment of AI enabled healthcare solutions.
  
• Support development of AI-assisted tools such as:
  a. Clinical decision support
  b. Risk stratification
  c. Conversational AI
  d. AI scribes Predictive analytics
  e. Digital labor room and maternal health solutions
  
• Participate in AI model training, validation, and continuous improvement processes.
  
• Assist in the regulatory approval process for AI solutions, digital health solutions.
  
• Support in the government advocacy efforts for adoption of AI and digital health solutions.

4. Digital Health Product Development

• Provide clinical inputs for mobile and web applications
  
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design user-centric digital workflows
  
• Support development of telemedicine and EMR systems
  
• Review product features from clinical safety, usability, and implementation perspectives
  
• Participate in UAT and product validation

5. Program Design & Implementation

• Support implementation of digital health programs across multiple countries
  
• Lead clinical capacity-building initiatives for healthcare providers
  
• Develop training materials, operational guidelines, SOPs, and implementation toolkits
  
• Support monitoring, quality assurance, and supportive supervision systems

6. Research, Evidence & Innovation

• Provide clinical expertise in designing, implementing monitoring, evaluation research for digital health solutions
  
• Provide clinical expertise in the publications, documentation of innovations
  
• Contribute to publications, technical reports, and donor communications
  
• Support generation of evidence for scale-up and policy advocacy
  
• Stay updated on emerging trends in AI, digital health, and primary healthcare

Requirements

• Active or recent clinical practice; familiarity with India’s primary care and NHM ecosystem
  
• Minimum 8-10 years of experience in:
  a. Clinical practice at primary health system
  b. Global Public health programs
  c. Global Primary healthcare systems
  
• Experience working with governments, NGOs, or global health organizations
  
• Demonstrated experience in:
  a. Clinical protocol development
  b. Telemedicine and digital health
  c. Clinical decision-support systems
  d. AI-enabled healthcare solutions
  
• Experience providing clinical inputs to technology/product teams
  
• Strong understanding of WHO and national public health guidelines
  
• Experience in maternal health, primary healthcare, or health systems strengthening preferred

Benefits

• Remote working
  
• Flexible working hours
  
• Great work culture
  
• 5 days working
  
• Group Medical Insurance