Research Assistant or Research Fellow

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.

The Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health is seeking to appoint a Research Assistant or Research Fellow to support the efforts of The Lancet Commission on Evidence-Based Implementation (EBI) in Global Health, focusing on reducing gaps and inequities in health implementation in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).

The post-holder will be responsible for conducting data analysis to estimate avertable deaths in LMICs through a Bayesian Framework. This work is expected to result in a series of academic papers. In addition, they will lead the writing of a paper detailing the statistical methods used and will contribute to other relevant papers. 

The post-holder will have a first degree in statistics, health informatics or a relevant subject at Research Assistant level or postgraduate degree, ideally a doctoral degree, in a relevant field for Research Fellow and experience in advanced statistical analyses in R, STATA, or other statistical programming language. They will be expected to contribute to written, preferably peer-reviewed, as expected by the subject area/discipline in terms of types and volume of outputs for Research Fellow level. Further particulars are included in the job description. 

The post is full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0FTE and fixed-term for 9 months.

The post is funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and available immediately.

The salary will be on the Academic scale, Grade 5 for Research Assistant in the range £39,182-£44,847 or Grade 6 Research Fellow in the range £44,847-£50,808 per annum inclusive of London weighting. The post will be subject to 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. 

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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