Two vacancies for infectious disease modellers working on AMR in the Modelling & Economics Unit, Public Health England Durations: one permanent; one 1-year Salary: minimum £38,975 Closing dates: 6 Mar 2019 (permanent post); 7 Mar 2019 (1-year post) Details (if the links don’t work then please copy in to a browser): Permanent post: https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/v1563452 Post […]
Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases 2019 Date: 6 – 17 May 2019 Course fee: ZAR 5000 The Department of Statistical Sciences will be hosting a two week short course on the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases. With increases in computing power and renewed efforts in the global fight against diseases like malaria, dengue and TB, mathematical modelling […]
Influenza dynamics at the animal-human interface in relation to swine production systems in Cambodia Principal supervisor: Dr James Rudge (LSHTM) Co-Supervisor: Dr Guillaume Founié (RVC) Co-Supervisor: Prof Graham Medley (LSHTM) Award includes tuition fees and a stipend of £16,777 including London Weighting (at 2018/19 rates, so slightly higher for 2019 entry) 100% FTE for 3 years, from September 2019. […]
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)32277-3/fulltext Authors: Alastair Heffernan, Graham S Cooke, Shevanthi Nayagam, Mark Thursz, Timothy B Hallett Summary Background The revolution in hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment through the development of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) has generated international interest in the global elimination of the disease as a public health threat. In 2017, this led WHO to establish elimination […]
Malaria is a serious tropical disease that causes thousands of deaths every year, yet it is both treatable and preventable. Many countries are currently in the process of trying to rid themselves of this deadly disease. Cambodia is one such country, and Pengby Ngor, a young Cambodian scientist and a member of TDMODNET is at […]
The infection Analytics team at UNSW Sydney is seeking a post-doc / research fellow in mathematical biology, to model infection dynamics in malaria infection. The Infection Analytics Program at the Kirby Institute is an interdisciplinary team including applied mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists, who collaborate widely with around 30 experimental groups around the world to […]
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Credit: istock Data re-use can generate new insights that in turn lead to vital health benefits. To stimulate and celebrate the innovative re-use of data, today we’re launching the Wellcome Data Re-use Prizes. Wellcome is fully committed to ensuring that research outputs are made available to accelerate health benefits. This means that the researchers we […]
Salary £37,904 – £45,547 Duration 12 months in the first instance Location St Mary’s Campus, Paddington Closing date 9 December 2018 Reference MED00874 We seek a mathematical modeller to develop innovative models and inference methodology to improve our understanding of the spatial spread of pandemic and seasonal influenza, and to use these models to […]
