Senior Infectious Disease Modeller for Policy

This permanent post is for an epidemiological modeller to work on developing models for vaccine preventable diseases to evaluate effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of vaccination programmes to support the requirements of JCVI (The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation) in the provision of national vaccination policy recommendations. The post-holder's role in the team will be to assist senior modellers in delivering scientific evaluations for new vaccines, reformulated vaccines, alternative vaccine schedules and will include literature reviews and analysis of complex data to obtain parameters for models, writing, checking and documenting model code, compilation of scientific reports and scientific publication.

UKHSA is a world leader in the use of infectious disease modelling and economic evaluation to inform public health decision making about vaccination. The post holder will liaise very closely with the Immunisation Department and the JCVI, to manage and deliver across the team and stakeholders, an agreed portfolio for work to inform national policy recommendations. The post involves considerable potential for original scientific work., The post holder will work in the Statistics, Modelling and Economics division at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). A dynamic and stimulating group comprising infectious disease modellers, biostatisticians, and health economists working on a wide range of strategically important projects relating to the burden of infectious disease, evaluation of control programmes, and modelling the impact of interventions against infections, both nationally and internationally. The work of the division is frequently used to inform policy, and close working with policy colleagues is often required. It is a world leader in its field and has numerous collaborative links with external academic and non-academic institutes and other public health agencies, WHO (World Health Organisation) and others.

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