Senior Breast Imaging Officer

## Responsabilités Description Job Description- Senior Breast Imaging Officer / for R 01-MURIKA Project Job Title Senior Breast Imaging Officer Departments Clinical and Research Grade 4 BLocation: Butaro , with frequent travels to other selected intervention sites Duration Of Contract September 2026 – April 2030 renewable upon availability of funds Reports To Director of Research and Training Organization Profile 1 In 2005, PIH and its Rwandan sister organization, Inshuti Mu Buzima (IMB), began working in partnership with the government of Rwanda to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic afflicting the population and to comprehensively strengthen the public health system in rural, underserved districts in Rwanda. Today, PIH/IMB supports delivery of comprehensive integrated non-communicable disease (NCD) services in three rural districts of Rwanda, including cancer care. Cancer care is predominantly based at the flagship Butaro Cancer Center of Excellence (BCCOE), which was inaugurated in June 2012 and has since provided care to over 9, 000 patients, with services ranging from cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. As breast cancer incidence rises in Rwanda , innovative and sustainable strategies to facilitate timely, accurate diagnoses are urgently needed to eliminate these preventable deaths. High-quality breast imaging is essential for the evaluation of potential cancer. Specifically, diagnostic breast ultrasound is the global standard of care in evaluating breast masses and more accurate than physical exam alone in identifying benign versus malignant disease. By triaging lesions requiring biopsy, ultrasound may also reduce unnecessary referrals and allocate resources to those most likely to have cancer. However, radiologists are still scarce and breast ultrasound is typically offered only at urban referral hospitals. Decentralizing breast ultrasound to district hospitals would expand access to this critical evidence-based intervention, particularly for low-income rural patients facing heightened barriers to referral hospital care. It is with this regards that Rwandan policymakers have called for breast ultrasound decentralization at all district hospitals. Based on this, PIH/IMB in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital(BWH) are implementing a project entitled “ MURIKA ( Mobilizing Ultrasound for Breast Imaging and Care )” aiming to use a fully pow...