Section of Infectious Diseases and Immunity
Department of Medicine

Research Fellow
Salary Range: £36,770 - £42,160 per annum

Applications are invited for a Research Fellow post. This is an unusual and exciting opportunity for a motivated research scientist to build his/her career within the dynamic environment of the Centre for Infection Prevention and Management (www.imperial.ac.uk/cipm).

The Centre focuses on infection prevention and access to safe and effective healthcare care in different settings. Our multidisciplinary team is embedded in the Infectious Diseases and Immunity Section of the Imperial College Department of Medicine. The section is actively involved in a range of leading biological and medical projects and has an outstanding record of supporting both junior and more senior staff to obtain personal fellowship support from the major charities including the Wellcome Trust, The Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Health Research.

The Centre is currently looking for a scientist with a focus in infectious diseases and a background in classical epidemiology (e.g., study design, direct observational data collection, etc), social sciences, public health, systems biology, applied statistics or related fields. The post holder would be expected to support work, including study design and statistical analyses, in organisational research, policy, behavioural interventions, surveillance, network analyses, or epidemiology, depending on their interests and background. The post holder will have a particular remit to develop applied research that can have an impact on public health policy, patient care, or access to healthcare.

The ideal candidate will have a PhD in the field of infectious diseases epidemiology, social sciences, public health, systems biology, applied statistics, policy, or a related field. They will have a record of high-quality publications in peer-reviewed journals and a successful track-record in research. Experience of the supervision of research of undergraduate/postgraduate students or postdoctoral staff is also essential.

For more information about the Centre please visit www.imperial.ac.uk/cipm. For specific information relating to the post please contact Dr Lydia Drumright at l.drumright@imperial.ac.uk.

Our preferred method of application is online via our website at http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment (please select “Job Search” then enter the job title or vacancy reference number into “Keywords”). Please complete and upload an application form as directed quoting reference number HM2012030.

Alternatively, if you are unable to apply online, please email hmrecr@imperial.ac.uk to request an application form.

Closing Date: 21 March 2012 (Midnight GMT)

Interviews will be held on 4 April 2012.

Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health

Salary: £35,370 to £38,415 per annum
Closing Date: Monday 27 December 2010
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Reference: RW02

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, an internationally renowned centre for research and postgraduate education in public health and tropical medicine, is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic Research Fellow to work on modelling M tuberculosis transmission and control in Africa as part of the CREATE consortium to design novel public health interventions to reduce the burden of HIV-related TB at the population level (http://www.tbhiv-create.org/). Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly in Africa, where the HIV epidemic has contributed to substantial increases in the burden of TB.

The aim of the research is to understand the effect of a novel strategy of community-wide preventive treatment on control of tuberculosis in settings of high incidence. This will involve developing and parameterising mathematical models, using international data collected as part of major ongoing empirical studies under the CREATE consortium and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. CREATE collaborators include the Aurum Institute for Health Research and the Desmond Tutu Centre, South Africa, the Municipal Health Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Zambart Project, Zambia and WHO, Geneva. The post involves a range of complex and original scientific work and requires a high degree of personal initiative. The post-holder will be based in a dynamic, supportive and stimulating group in the Health Protection Agency in Colindale, London, with close interactive links with collaborators at LSHTM and in Africa.

The appointment is available immediately and is currently funded until 31 December 2012. Starting salary will be in the range of £35,370 - £38,415 per annum.
Applications should be made on-line via our website jobs.lshtm.ac.uk. The reference for this post is RW02. Applications should include the names and email contacts of 2 referees who can be contacted immediately if shortlisted. Any queries regarding the application process may be addressed to jobs@lshtm.ac.uk.

See http://jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=RW02 for further details.

POSITION AVAILABLE: Clinical Diagnostic Epidemiologist in the California Animal Health & Food Safety Laboratory System (CAHFS) and Department of Medicine & Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM), University of California, Davis. The successful candidatewill be in residence at the CAHFS laboratory on the UC Davis campus.

If anyone has questions about the position, please contact Ian Gardner (ph: 530-752-6992) or John Adaska, the Search Committee Chair (ph: 559-688-7543).