PhD Student, Infectious Disease Modelling
This is a full-time candidature for a 3-year period. You will undertake mathematical modelling projects to identify the impact and cost-effectiveness of interventions to progress hepatitis C elimination in Australia and globally.
You will develop and calibrate models of hepatitis C transmission, disease progression, and care cascade progression to different settings and population groups, using appropriate epidemiological, statistical, and mathematical techniques.
- **Key Responsibilities:**
- Develop and calibrate models of hepatitis C transmission, disease progression, and care cascade progression to different settings and population groups, using appropriate epidemiological, statistical, and mathematical techniques.
- Undertake costing studies and health economic evaluation of interventions.
- Communicate with epidemiologists, public health experts, social scientists, and stakeholders about the approach and implications of modelling projects.
- Write academic publications and policy briefs and produce PowerPoint presentations.
The ideal candidate will have an undergraduate degree in modelling, statistics, physics, computer science, or a similar field OR an undergraduate degree in health sciences, biomedicine, or a similar field plus experience with data analysis, computing, or modelling.
About Burnet Institute:
Burnet Institute is a leading Australian, unaligned, not-for-profit organisation that uniquely links medical research with practical action to achieve better health for disadvantaged communities and help solve devastating global health problems.
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