The Oxford Planetary Health Informatics Lab is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Data Scientist to support new Wellcome Trust funded projects on curation and modelling of harmonised climate and health datasets and co-creating publicly available decision-support dashboards and tools to enhance mapping, monitoring, and prediction of global health challenges including mitigating climate-exacerbated global health inequities. This position will be based at the Botnar Research Centre in Oxford.
As a Postdoctoral Research Data Scientist, you will: Develop analysis plans, ethical protocols, and standard operating procedures. Undertake related literature reviews. Analyse data following pre-specified analysis plans and approved protocols. Curate and analyse real world climate/environment and health data assets. Lead and support the drafting of scientific manuscripts, reports to funders, and other materials based on the results from research studies.
You must hold a PhD/DPhil (or be near completion) in applied/medical statistics, bio/medical engineering, health data sciences, earth observation, environmental epidemiology, public health geography or another similar field. You must have demonstrable advanced skills in programming in R, Python, SQL, and/or similar languages alongside experience in version control e.g. Git; working knowledge of Docker and HuggingFace. Additionally, you will have demonstrable experience in data visualization and creating digital tools and dashboards using e.g. R Shiny, Power BI, Tableau or similar. You must have advanced taught or demonstrated skills in cleaning and analysing satellite-derived data analysis products and GIS data.
Experience in the analysis of routinely collected (aka 'real world') health and climate data, including but not limited to epidemiological, meteorological, environmental, and earth observation data is desired.
This is a full-time, fixed-term position for 2 years.
The closing date for applications is
12 noon on 25 February 2025.
Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. You will be required to upload a CV and supporting statement as part of your online application.
Contact Person: Recruitment Team
Vacancy ID: 177883
Contact Phone: [Insert Phone Number]
Closing Date & Time: 25-Feb-2025 12:00
Pay Scale: RESEARCH GRADE 7
Contact Email: recruitment@ndorms.ox.ac.uk
Salary (£): Grade 7: £38,674 - £45,628 per annum
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As a Postdoctoral Research Data Scientist, you will: Develop analysis plans, ethical protocols, and standard operating procedures. Undertake related literature reviews. Analyse data following pre-specified analysis plans and approved protocols. Curate and analyse real world climate/environment and health data assets. Lead and support the drafting of scientific manuscripts, reports to funders, and other materials based on the results from research studies.
You must hold a PhD/DPhil (or be near completion) in applied/medical statistics, bio/medical engineering, health data sciences, earth observation, environmental epidemiology, public health geography or another similar field. You must have demonstrable advanced skills in programming in R, Python, SQL, and/or similar languages alongside experience in version control e.g. Git; working knowledge of Docker and HuggingFace. Additionally, you will have demonstrable experience in data visualization and creating digital tools and dashboards using e.g. R Shiny, Power BI, Tableau or similar. You must have advanced taught or demonstrated skills in cleaning and analysing satellite-derived data analysis products and GIS data.
Experience in the analysis of routinely collected (aka 'real world') health and climate data, including but not limited to epidemiological, meteorological, environmental, and earth observation data is desired.
This is a full-time, fixed-term position for 2 years.
The closing date for applications is
12 noon on 25 February 2025.
Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. You will be required to upload a CV and supporting statement as part of your online application.
Contact Person: Recruitment Team
Vacancy ID: 177883
Contact Phone: [Insert Phone Number]
Closing Date & Time: 25-Feb-2025 12:00
Pay Scale: RESEARCH GRADE 7
Contact Email: recruitment@ndorms.ox.ac.uk
Salary (£): Grade 7: £38,674 - £45,628 per annum
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