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 group on the Centre for Tropical Drugs and International Well being.

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

It’s important that you just maintain a PhD/Dphil (or near completion) in a quantitative analysis space akin to mathematical modelling, computing or statistics, along with related expertise. Ample specialist data within the self-discipline to work inside established analysis programmes in infectious illness modelling is required, alongside sturdy analytical and quantitative abilities and wonderful problem-solving talents. The power to handle personal educational 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’ll be required to add a supporting assertion and CV as a part of your on-line software. Your supporting assertion should clarify the way you meet every of the choice standards for the put up utilizing examples of your abilities 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 functions obtained earlier than 12 noon on Friday 13 October 2023 might be thought of. Please quote 167128 on all correspondence.