Research Fellow in Vaccine Economics

Updated: almost 2 years ago
Location: London, ENGLAND
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 01 Jul 2022

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 Wellcome Trust has funded a consortium of partners including LSHTM to assess the value of Salmonellae vaccines. The postholder will develop an innovative programme of work to investigate the broader societal and economic benefits of these vaccines, such as future productivity, antimicrobial resistance reductions, improved equity and social protection. The work be done in collaboration with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and the World Health Organization.

The postholder will be supervised by Prof. Mark Jit and will be part of the Modelling and Economic Evaluation of Vaccines (MEEV) group, a highly successful and supportive group with a long history of working with countries to generate evidence to support vaccination policy. The postholder will also be affiliated to LSHTM’s Vaccine Centre, Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases and Global Health Economics Centre.

The successful applicant will have a PhD (or Masters degree and good research experience) in health economics, mathematical modelling, statistics, epidemiology or another relevant discipline with a strong quantitative component and experience in health economic, statistical and/or mathematical modelling of health conditions, ideally infectious diseases.  Further particulars are included in the job description. 

The post is full-time and is available from 1 June 2022 until 2 May 2024. 

The salary will be on the Academic Pathway salary scale Grade 6 in the range £40,611 - £46,119 per annum (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service.  Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM.

Applications should be made on-line via our website at http://jobs.lshtm.ac.uk . Online applications will be accepted by the automated system until 10pm of the closing date. Any queries regarding the application process may be addressed to [email protected]

The supporting statement section should set out how your qualifications, experience and training meet each of the selection criteria. Please provide one or more paragraphs addressing each criterion. The supporting statement is an essential part of the selection process and thus a failure to provide this information will mean that the application will not be considered. An answer to any of the criteria such as "Please see attached CV" will not be considered acceptable. 

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

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