Location: | London |
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Salary: | £48,736 to £57,682 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 3rd February 2023 |
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Closes: | 12th February 2023 |
Job Ref: | MED03558 |
Location: London Campuses
Job Summary
The post is a great opportunity to develop a broad range of skills and experience, inform public health policy and practice, and build an international network of collaborators. TB is a major cause of morbidity and mortality globally, and remains important cause of health inequality in the UK, associated with ethnicity, migration, and social deprivation. We collaborate with the UK Health Security Agency, University College London, and several other universities and hospitals. Our research focuses on understanding the natural history, epidemiology, and transmission patterns of tuberculosis and (cost-)effectiveness of control measures, including to combat drug resistance. We combine infectious disease modelling with studies of patient and population behaviour, health services research, and health economics.
This is an exciting time to be working on TB, with increased political interest in addressing health inequalities, combined with advances in our understanding of TB’s natural history and epidemiology, and development of new diagnostics, treatment regimens, approaches to supporting adherence to treatment, case-finding approaches, and vaccines. Constrained budgets mean that interventions need to be effective and cost-effective, making our work assessing new technology and approaches particularly important.
Our work has informed use of molecular diagnostics for TB (published in Health Technology Assessment, Thorax, and Scientific Reports); our finding that the TB Find & Treat service for homeless persons was cost-effective (BMJ) saved it from closure and led to its expansion; our trial of video observed therapy to support treatment adherence (Lancet) led to its becoming standard practice; our analysis of migrant screening for latent TB infection (Lancet and Lancet Infectious Diseases) led to expansion of the eligible group; our work for NICE informed changes to latent TB screening & treatment guidelines. We also perform studies to improve understanding of the fundamental natural history, e.g. in collaboration with Harvard.
Duties and responsibilities
The post will particularly focus on analysis to inform policy, and developing a tool for decision-makers to assess cost-effectiveness of intervention options at local level. This tool will be based on a national-level individual-based model but will be simplified to make it suitable for use by people who are not expert modellers.
Specifically, you will contribute to:
Essential requirements
PhD with relevant data-analysis and coding skills
Further Information
The post is full time fixed term until 31 March 2025, based initially at the St Mary’s Campus, Paddington.
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