We are seeking to recruit a medical statistician or an epidemiologist with experience using electronic health records for observational research to join the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Vaccines and Immunisation at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

The NIHR HPRU in Vaccines and Immunisation is a partnership between the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge and University College London.

The HPRU has four research disciplines:
Discipline 1. Surveillance, Epidemiology, Electronic Health Records Research, Big Data
Discipline 2. Infectious Disease Modelling, Economic Modelling, Systems Modelling
Discipline 3. Social Science and Health Systems Research, and Artificial Intelligence
Discipline 4. Vaccine Immunity and Sero-epidemiology

Each discipline contributes work across four research themes:
Theme 1. Improving vaccine coverage across the life course
Theme 2. Making better use of data
Theme 3. Accelerating new vaccine introduction & streamlining schedules
Theme 4. Resilience, response, and pandemic preparedness

The successful candidate will be part of Discipline 1 (Surveillance, Epidemiology, Electronic Health Records Research, Big Data) and will contribute to projects across research themes.

The HPRU aims to increase vaccine coverage and support a data- driven immunisation programme by making the most of digital technologies and linked electronic health records. Discipline 1’s research programme includes studies of inequalities in infectious disease burden and vaccine uptake; vaccine safety, effectiveness and impact; and approaches to better use of data in delivery and evaluation of the immunisation programme.

The successful candidate will be a statistician or an epidemiologist with experience in conducting and leading epidemiological studies using linked electronic health records, ideally including the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) or OpenSAFELY.

The post requires strong data management and quantitative skills with expertise in a common statistical package (e.g., Stata/R).

Experience in the preparation of codelists and algorithms to define demographic and clinical subgroups would be regarded favourably, as would a track record of publications involving UK electronic health records.

The post is based within the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology – International Health at the London School of Hygiene
& Tropical Medicine. The post holder will work in close partnership with UKHSA colleagues, and with colleagues across LSHTM including
the HPRU, the Electronic Health Records Research Group, and the Vaccine Centre.