We are seeking an excellent researcher to work on surveillance and vaccination strategies to achieve poliovirus eradication. Outbreaks of vaccine-derived poliovirus have spread across the African continent in the last five years. Timely detection and response are key to stopping their spread. During this post you will work on a variety of topics including analysis of the network of surveillance data to identify dynamic strategies to improve timely detection, model the potential impact of rapid serological surveys and predict the impact of novel oral polio vaccines, through conducting both statistical and mathematical analysis of acute flaccid paralysis and environmental surveillance data maintained by the WHO. The post is funded by the Gates Foundation.

You will work within the polio team in the Vaccine Epidemiology Research Group and have access to excellent peer support from other members of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis. You will also communicate and meet with Global Program Support Groups from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and with staff at WHO and the Gates Foundation.

This role is offered on a full time, fixed term basis until 31 August 2027 in the first instance.