Senior Epidemiologist & Outbreak Analytics Lead

UK Health Security Agency; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The Senior Scientist role sits within UKHSA's Rapid Investigation Team, Field Services, leveraging epidemiology to translate evidence into practice and strengthen disease surveillance and outbreak response in collaboration with NHS and partners. You will work with senior epidemiologists across topic areas and support local Health Protection Teams.

The role includes deploying nationally, conducting operational research, and developing reproducible analytical pipelines in R to support routine

Qualifications

• Experience supporting epidemiological investigations and surveillance.
• Ability to design and maintain reproducible analytical pipelines.
• Experience with data management in public health contexts.

Responsibilities

• Support and manage technical and analytical aspects of epidemiological outbreak investigations.
• Interface with local, regional and national colleagues and external partners.
• Engage in research activities including operational research and data collection deployments.
• Contribute to academic collaborations, publications and conference presentations.

Skills

Epidemiology

Data analysis

Team collaboration

Tools

R programming

Job description

The Senior Scientist role sits within UKHSA's Rapid Investigation Team, Field Services, leveraging epidemiology to translate evidence into practice and strengthen disease surveillance and outbreak response in collaboration with NHS and partners. You will work with senior epidemiologists across topic areas and support local Health Protection Teams.

The role includes deploying nationally, conducting operational research, and developing reproducible analytical pipelines in R to support routine