Research Fellow position within “The Infectious Disease Equity Consortium (InDiE)”, a £3.4 million 4 year Wellcome Trust funded project: “Accelerating the health equity impact of prevention and control interventions for infectious diseases in Africa”.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop and use mathematical models to investigate health inequities in a range of infectious diseases in Africa. The InDiE consortium is a large multidisciplinary collaboration that brings together researchers from Zimbabwe, Zambia, The Gambia, South Africa, Kenya and the UK to develop a novel equity framework aimed at preventing new infectious disease treatment and prevention technologies from widening health inequalities.

This post focuses on bringing an infectious disease dynamics perspective and skillset to the InDIE consortium. There has recently been increasing recognition of the importance of examining health inequalities within the field of infectious disease modelling and this postholder will have the opportunity to make a novel and substantial contribution to this emerging and complex area.