The Urban Malaria Project is dedicated to comprehending the burden and determinants of malaria transmission in urban areas within countries where malaria is endemic. Our ultimate objective is to leverage this understanding to contribute valuable insights to national malaria strategic planning. The project team consists of faculty and staff from Loyola University Chicago, University of Ibadan, Osun state University and Bayero University.
The Loyola team, located within the Department of Health Informatics and Data Science, seeks to hire one Postdoctoral Fellow with strong geospatial data analysis expertise to support geospatial modeling research for urban malaria microstratification across Africa. The candidate will do this work in collaboration with national malaria control programs.
Responsibilities will include the following:

• Performs full range of analytical work related to the development and implementation of systems, databases to create, maintain, display, and update geospatial data.
• Develops tools that use geospatial technology to answer research questions.
• Develops systems and application documentation, user-training materials, and quality control procedures; prepares a variety of technical reports, correspondence, manuals and other written materials.
• Analyze data from complex surveys and field study data from our ongoing epidemiological and entomological study in Kano and Ibadan
• Present findings at research meetings and conferences
  Key Qualifications and Required Skills:
• Ph.D. in a geography, environmental since, urban planning, computer science or similar technical discipline
• Proficiency in at least one data-analysis or scripting language (e.g. Python or R)
• Published articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
• Clear and effective communication of quantitative work to non-experts
• Ability to work with ambiguity.
  Desired Qualifications:
• French language skills