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We are currently searching for Infectious Disease Modelers that we are recruiting on behalf of the Department for Health and Social Care for a 6-month initial contract. This role is based in London but can be worked remotely.

Imagine having a talent that could benefit someone you’ve never met and solve problems you didn’t even know existed. Well, you do, and you can. And we’re here to help you do just that. At PSR we are the go-to place for talented contractors and temps for a rich variety of civil service roles.

As an Infectious Disease Modeler / Data Scientist, you will: 

• Provide scientific support in infectious disease modelling to the epidemiological investigation of incidents and outbreaks, supporting local response in collaboration with other partners. 
• Lead and manage the technical and analytical aspects of epidemiological outbreak investigations
• Take a lead role in Infectious disease modelling, public health scientific analyses and writing reports on specific projects, regular and ad hoc commissions and publications.
• Provide data science support to the Epidemiological investigative work, supporting technical analysis and aspects, from a data science perspective assisting the epidemiological outbreak investigation.

You’ll have:

• Educated to MSc level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Principles of modelling and knowledge of infectious diseases.
• Experience of interpreting and evaluating epidemiological data, sensitive health data analyses and performing analytical epidemiology in outbreak situations.
• Demonstrable experience of public health, health protection or epidemiology
• Proficient in one or more common statistical/database/mapping tools such as:  R, Python, GIS, network analysis or SQL.
• Knowledge and experience of common statistical tests, modelling and analyses and interpretation of results
• Understanding of data governance and data protection

It would be great to also have:

• PhD desirable but not essential
• Experience in epidemiological outbreak surveillance situations.
• Completed the Field Epidemiology Training Programme or equivalent training and experience in infectious disease epidemiology

If this sounds like you and you would be interested in being added to our pipeline, please click the link to apply and speak to one of our PSR team now.

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