Research fellow in infectious disease modelling

We’re in search of to nominate a Analysis fellow in in infectious illness modelling to affix Professor Deirdre Hollingsworth’s crew on the Centre for Tropical Drugs and International Well being.

As a Analysis fellow, you may be working in a multi-disciplinary, multi-national crew focussed throughout a variety of NTDs, with main accountability for knowledge evaluation and modelling of trachoma, a bacterial an infection and main reason behind blindness globally. You’ll primarily be engaged on evaluating the affect of a trachoma management programme in shut collaboration with stakeholders. Nevertheless, you’ll work additionally in multidisciplinary groups on a variety of epidemiological, surveillance and programmatic knowledge and statistical and mechanistic fashions throughout the NTDs for real-world affect.

It’s important that you just maintain a PhD/Dphil (or near completion) in a quantitative analysis space comparable to mathematical modelling, computing or statistics, along with related expertise. Ample specialist information within the self-discipline to work inside established analysis programmes in infectious illness modelling is required, alongside sturdy analytical and quantitative expertise and glorious problem-solving skills. The flexibility to handle personal tutorial analysis and related actions and independently lead analysis, to work collaboratively with others and to work to deadlines can also be required.

Purposes for this emptiness are to be made on-line and you may be required to add a supporting assertion and CV as a part of your on-line utility. Your supporting assertion should clarify the way you meet every of the choice standards for the publish utilizing examples of your expertise and expertise.

This place is obtainable full time (part-time could also be thought of at a minimal of twenty-two.5h / 0.60FTE) on a set time period contract till 31 March 2025 and is funded by the Kids’s Funding Fund Basis, the Li Ka Shing and the Invoice and Melinda Gates Basis.

Solely purposes acquired earlier than 12 noon on Friday 13 October 2023 shall be thought of. Please quote 167128 on all correspondence.