Senior Postdoc: Climate-Sensitive Disease Forecaster

University-of-Oxford; Oxford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Oxford seeks a Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist to lead development of a global, real-time forecasting observatory for climate-sensitive diseases like dengue, cholera, and malaria. You will build and validate spatiotemporal models and integrate diverse data streams to support policy and public health actions.

Working with the Kraemer Group in the DAE at the PSI, you will contribute to forecasting dashboards, co-design workshops, and training for international health partners.

Qualifications

• PhD/DPhil in a quantitative discipline (epidemiology, computer science, mathematics, statistics, or computational biology).
• Demonstrated experience modelling climate-sensitive infectious diseases and deploying forecasting/scenario models.
• Strong analytical, communication and collaborative skills; ability to build reproducible workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and validate spatiotemporal models for disease risk mapping, forecasting and scenario modelling.
• Integrate large-scale epidemiological, environmental, climatic, demographic, genomic and behavioural datasets.
• Evaluate probabilistic forecasts and maintain a public-facing forecasting dashboard.
• Collaborate with international public health partners and run co-design workshops and training.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Organizational skills

Education

PhD/DPhil in quantitative field

Tools

Python

R

Julia

Job description

University of Oxford seeks a Senior Postdoctoral Research Scientist to lead development of a global, real-time forecasting observatory for climate-sensitive diseases like dengue, cholera, and malaria. You will build and validate spatiotemporal models and integrate diverse data streams to support policy and public health actions.

Working with the Kraemer Group in the DAE at the PSI, you will contribute to forecasting dashboards, co-design workshops, and training for international health partners.