St. George's, University of London
Division of Community Health Sciences

Statistician – 2 posts
Fixed term for 18 months

Two medical statisticians are required to join a research team 
undertaking a range of projects in the field of environmental 
epidemiology. The post holders will be required to provide statistical 
support for a range of projects and to assist with the preparation of 
papers and reports for publication. 

Ref: 509/06 Statistician (Respiratory Programme)

The post holder will assist with a number of projects relating to 
respiratory and air pollution epidemiology.  This will include 
providing statistical support, assisting with systematic reviews and 
meta-analysis and analysis of routine health and air pollution data.

You should have an MSc or equivalent qualification in biostatistics or 
a related discipline and good computing skills in relation to 
statistical analysis and manipulation of data.

Ref: 510/06 Statistician (Air Pollution Programme)

The post holder will be responsible for the maintenance of the air 
pollution epidemiology databases (APED), extracting data from research 
papers and entering these data into the APED databases, analysis of 
data in the APED databases, preparation of figures, table and text for 
reports and research papers, and time series analysis of daily 
mortality and hospital admission data.

You should have a first degree in mathematics, statistics or related 
discipline, and previous experience of data entry and statistical 
analysis of large databases. You should also have programming skills 
in at least one major statistical software package (SPLUS, R) and in 
database software (ACCESS).

Starting salary for both posts will be in the range £22,637 - £27,279 
pa inc.

For an informal discussion on either of these posts please contact 
Ross Anderson/Richard Atkinson on 020 8725 5419/5174. 

For further information and details on how to apply visit 
www.sgul.ac.uk/jobs  or contact the Personnel Office on 020 8725 5020 
(24-hour answerphone) or email: [log in to unmask]  Please quote the 
appropriate reference.

Closing date: 7 July 2006

St George’s is an Equal Opportunities Employer


 
 


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