The African Climate and Development Initiative at University of Cape Town invites applications for a Senior Researcher in Climate Change and Health (at least 3 years post PhD).

The Senior Researcher will lead research in the Climate Risk Lab on attributing human health impacts to climate change, predicting short-term and long-term climate change impacts on health, and informing adaptation responses, as well as engaging with climate change and health decision-makers at national and international levels. This is a great chance to join a growing interdisciplinary team doing actionable research across Africa and globally.

The role includes:

• development and oversight of research on climate change and health
• advising postdoctoral fellows and students
• actionable research activities such as supporting climate change decision-making at national and international levels.

This is an ideal opportunity for a researcher with an environmental health, public health, climate change or other relevant scientific background to work at the intersection of climate and health with a particular focus on infectious disease.