"Research Assistant / Research Fellow (NIHR HPRU)"

About us

The UCL Institute for Global Health (IGH) is at the heart of UCL’s Grand Challenge of Global Health. The Institute’s vision is for a world where international policy on global health is informed by world-class research. IGH aims to support the development of robust solutions to aspects of the world’s major global health challenges through scholarly outputs, education, public engagement, translational research, and ultimately by influencing public policy and professional practice.

About the role

The post-holder will contribute to a range of projects within the HPRU and Natsal and help build research links between the HPRU and Natsal. Within the HPRU, the post-holder will be responsible for project management, data collection and management and statistical analysis relating to several NIHR HPRU projects (to be agreed with HPRU Steering Committee), as well as dissemination of study findings to academic and non-academic audiences.

About you

The successful candidate must have detailed knowledge and understanding of sexual and reproductive health, and blood-borne viruses; they must have experience of working closely with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and previous experience of conducting literature reviews, including systematic and/or scoping reviews. The ideal candidate will have experience of project management, data management, curation, linkage methods and/or analysis for large, administrative datasets. They will also have proficiency in at least one statistical analysis package, ideally SAS, Stata or R.