SUBJECT TO CONTRACT
POST DOCTORAL POSITION IN APPLIED STATISTICS to study the
Impact of control measures on the course of the FMD 2001 epidemic
1st February 2004 - 31st January 2005.
A one-year position is available with Drs Green, Keeling and Medley
in the Ecology and Epidemiology Group at the University of Warwick
and in close collaboration with Professor Sir David Cox, Oxford
and Professor Peter Diggle, Lancaster.
The project is to investigate the impact of control measures on the
foot and mouth disease epidemic of 2001 using a data driven approach.
You will be an applied statistician / epidemiologist with experience
of correlated data analysis and management of large datasets. You
will be interested in how statistical inferences are influenced by
infectious disease processes and aspects of agriculture (e.g. local
clustering) that affect statistical methodology and interpretation.
Salary Scale up to Post Doc AR 15
FURTHER DETAILS
We will test the hypothesis that 'movement restrictions, removal of
dangerous contact herds, contiguous culling and ring culling of cloven
hoofed livestock impacted on the spread of FMDV in the UK'. We will
quantify the impact of each of the controls with appropriate
statistical analysis of the data collected during the FMD epidemic.
You will be responsible for the following
1. A Delphi study and a workshop. Results of these processes will
inform on appropriate and interesting questions to test with the data.
2. Statistical analysis of the data - particular attention will be
paid to the non-linearity and correlations (in both time and space)
introduced by the epidemic process.
3. Contributing to presentation of the results to the veterinary
community.
We anticipate further employment opportunities in this area beyond
this contract.
Please contact Laura Green [log in to unmask] or Graham Medley
[log in to unmask] for further information
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