Associate Professor or Assistant Professor in Medical Statistics / Data Science, Epidemiology or Health Services Research (x2)

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. 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.

This is a unique opportunity to take a key role in a new national centre of excellence (NATCAN), established to help strengthen NHS cancer services and support them in delivering high quality care. We are looking for statisticians / data scientists, epidemiologists and health services researchers who can work in multi-disciplinary teams with clinicians, and use state-of-the-art methods to produce impactful publications that can stimulate quality improvement.

Our research programme includes how modern data science methods can create innovative outputs and solve methodological challenges, such as: accurately describing pathways of care and outcomes in linked health care datasets (“big data”); developing risk prediction models; and implementing outcome monitoring / data visualisation.

The post holders will take leading roles in multidisciplinary teams of researchers and clinicians based at the Clinical Effectiveness Unit, a collaboration between the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Applicants should have a relevant postgraduate degree with experience of analysing large complex datasets, proven ability to work independently and collaboratively to deliver health care research. Further particulars are included in the job descriptions that reflect the requirements for the different positions. 

The post is full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE and fixed term until 30 June 2026 with possibilities of further extension.

The post is funded by the Royal College of Surgeons and is available immediately.

The salary will be on the Academic Pathway salary scale, Grade 8 (£62,028 to £71,192) for Associate Professor or Grade 7 (£51,299 - £58,723) for Assistant Professor 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 by clicking the 'Apply' button, above.

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 jobs@lshtm.ac.uk. 

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. 

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