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The Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology & International Health is seeking to appoint a Research Fellow to the NeoShield Study, a multi-country project designed to reduce neonatal mortality from healthcare-associated infections in Zambia and Malawi. The study integrates clinical, microbiological, and data science approaches to generate evidence and tools for safer, more targeted infection management in hospitalised newborns.
Job Responsibility:
Leading the design, development, deployment and evaluation of NeoShield’s applied machine-learning systems, the machine-learning-driven Clinical Decision Support Algorithm for neonatal sepsis and the real-time ward-level outbreak detection system
Requirements:
Postgraduate degree, ideally a doctoral degree, in a relevant discipline (e.g. machine learning, data science, epidemiology or another quantitative field)
Applied experience in machine-learning, with extensive experience of hands-on model development, testing, validation and deployment using real-work datasets in operational environments
Demonstrated experience in data engineering and ETL workflows required to prepare large, real-world dataset for machine-learning development
What we offer:
Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part-time staff