Ukphrst - London, United Kingdom - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health.

Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

The purpose of this post is to provide epidemiological expertise across the full range of UK-PHRST activities to meet the team's objective of supporting outbreak response, research, and capacity in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs).

The post-holder should expect to use their expertise in activities ranging from direct operational outbreak response to co-identification, development and implementation of substantial research projects and capacity strengthening projects with LMIC partners.

As a member of the UK-PHRST deployable team, the post-holder must be willing to deploy overseas at short notice (within 48 hours) for periods of 6-8 weeks.

In addition frequent travel to partner countries as part of research and capacity strengthening activities is expected.

The post-holder will be required to balance their work so as to contribute to all three pillars of UK-PHRST work.

The post-holder will support and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of epidemiologists, social scientists, infection prevention and control specialists, laboratory experts and others in UK-PHRST, and work with LMIC colleagues according to principles of equitable partnership.

The post-holder will have a postgraduate degree, ideally a doctoral degree (Research Fellow) or a doctoral degree (Assistant Professor), in a relevant topic.

They will have excellent analytical skills, and proficiency in common statistical/database/mapping tools. Further particulars are included in the job description.

The post is full-time, 1.0FTE and fixed-term until 31 March 2025. The post is funded by UK Government Overseas Development Aid and available from 1 March 2023.

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