Imperial College London (ICL), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the UK Health Security agency (UKHSA) are joining together to offer 11 PhD studentships in health analytics and modelling, funded by the Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU).

This series of studentships includes an exciting opportunity to research the 'health, economic and educational impacts of respiratory pandemics in the UK', to be supervised by ICL's Prof Katharina Hauck, Prof John Edmunds (LSHTM) and Michael Borowitz (UKHSA).

The specific aims of the PhD will be to build a UK version of DAEDALUS, an integrated economic-epidemiological model, that can be used for real-time modelling to support policy makers in emergency response to an outbreak. The model will be powered to project health, economic and education impacts of alternative mitigation strategies into the future, relying on automated data streams from other projects within
the HPRU. A particular focus will be to build in fiscal impacts considering alternative fiscal relief interventions, including government transfers such as furlough payments, and subsidies to businesses.

The studentships will be funded by the Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU), with funding covering a tax-free stipend of £22,780, tuition fees at home rates, and research and travel expenses.

More info about the studentship and how to apply before the 7th March deadline can be found here: http://lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/funding-scholarships/research-degree-funding/phd-studentships-health-analytics-modelling.