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Master thesis project – The take-up of official recognition of animal health status. The purpose of this internship is to investigate factors affecting the choice to apply or not for official recognition by WOAH of a country’s animal health status. It will involve quantifying and characterising the issue, analysing its statistical associations with variables related to animal disease (including WAHIS data), trade, and national regulations. Depending on starting date the intern will support the design and implementation of an open-ended survey to explore the benefits and challenges. The intern will contribute to both data analysis and qualitative research to support evidence-based insights.
Job Responsibility:
Survey countries that have an official animal health status recognised by WOAH, to identify the main drivers for application (or not), evidenced benefits and identify areas of improvement to enhance the benefits brought to recognised countries
Quantify and characterise the situation, especially the non-use cases of official recognition of animal health status, mainly using WOAH’s dataset. Assess the reasons for non-engaging in the process of official recognition of animal health status by WOAH
Study the statistical association between the non-take-up/take-up of status recognition and various variables characterising the animal health, trade and regulatory landscape
Requirements:
At least one year studying at Master level (or equivalent) in veterinary sciences, epidemiology, animal science, international policies, agricultural economics, statistics, data science or other relevant fields to the area of this subject matter
Data analytics with R or python, descriptive statistics, survey theory, social science
Analysis and problem solving
Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, such as Excel, Word and PowerPoint
Excellent knowledge of English, both spoken and written
Ability to work in an agile way and deliver at pace
Organisation skills and ability to meet deadlines
Team player who can integrate well into the department and is willing to commit to supporting the development of Observatory outputs