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*Post-Doctoral Fellow in Infectious Disease Epidemiology* School of Public Health, the University of Hong Kong. Appointment will be made for a period of 2-3 years, with the possibility of renewal. A highly competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience will be offered. The University Grants Committee (Hong Kong) support an Area of Excellence in 'Control of Pandemic and Inter-Pandemic Influenza', with which is associated a new Postoctoral Fellow position in the School of Public Health. The appointee will work under the guidance of senior staff on the analysis of data from ongoing and completed large community studies of influenza and other respiratory viruses, as well as theoretical work on experimental design and analysis, and publish their findings in leading scientific journals. The PDF position is research-focused with strict limits on teaching responsibilities, suitable for early career scientists. Applicants should have or be about to complete a PhD in Statistics, Biostatistics, or an equivalent qualification, an interest in both methodology and applications, and should have demonstrated research potential. Experience in any of these areas would be valuable: infectious disease modelling, longitudinal data analysis, survival analysis, Bayesian inference and MCMC. Closing date: June 30, 2010. See http://sph.hku.hk/ide for more details of our research programme. Applications with letter of interest and curriculum vitae should be directed to Dr B J Cowling ([log in to unmask]). Informal enquiries may be directed to the same address. ABOUT HKU: Founded in 1911, The University of Hong Kong is committed to the highest international standards of excellence in teaching and research, and has been at the international forefront of academic scholarship for many years. Of a number of recent indicators of the University's performance, one is its ranking at 18 among the top 200 universities in the world by the UK's Times Higher Education Supplement. The University has a comprehensive range of study programmes and research disciplines, with 20,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from 50 countries, and a complement of 1,200 academic members of staff, many of whom are internationally renowned. You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.