Job Description

Department
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics
Salary
45,728 to 51,872 per annum pro rata inclusive
Closing Date
Thursday 20 November 2025
Reference
EPH-EPED-2025-16



The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world's leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.


We are recruiting a Research Fellow to work on modelling the impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccines against respiratory pathogens in the UK. This will require building new models and extending existing models to capture the epidemiological and economic consequences of vaccines against Respiratory Synctial Virus (RSV) and influenza, and communicating findings to both academic and policy communities. Using data from large electronic healthcare records, the models will incorporate novel estimates of vaccine waning and account for variation vaccine effectiveness across different populations within the UK.


The post will be part of a large research programme on advancing evaluation of respiratory vaccine effectiveness using real time data. This project is a partnership led by the University of Bristol, and involving a multi-disciplinary team of researchers. It will build on existing work at LSHTM (led by Prof Rosalind Eggo and Dr Simon Procter), and include long-standing collaborative links with researchers at the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at Oxford University, and the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA).


The post-holder must have a postgraduate degree, ideally a doctoral degree, in a relevant topic and relevant experience in a quantitative subject, related to epidemiological and/or economic modelling of infectious diseases. Further particulars are included in the.


The post is full-time 35 hours per week, 1 FTE and fixed-term until 31 May 2028. The post is funded by NIHR and available from 01 December 2025.


The salary will be on the LSHTM salary scale, Grade 6 in the range 45,728 - 51,872 per annum (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part-time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary "Wellbeing Days". Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM.


Applications should be made on-line . Online applications will be accepted by the automated system until 10pm of the closing date. Any queries regarding the application process may be addressed to jobs@lshtm.ac.uk. Please quote reference EPH-EPED-2025-16.


The supporting statement section is an essential part of the selection process and should set out how your qualifications, experience and training meet

each

of the selection criteria. Please provide one or more paragraphs addressing each criterion. Further information is detailed in the application form.


Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is committed to being an equal opportunities employer. We believe that when people feel respected and included, they can be more creative, successful, and happier at work. While we have more work to do, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace, a community that everyone feels a part of, which is safe, respectful, supportive and enables all to reach their full potential.