Public Health Ontario is looking to hire a highly motivated and creative Postdoctoral Fellow to join an interdisciplinary research team. The successful candidate will lead and contribute to projects that investigate how pathogen evolutionary dynamics, spatial spread, and genomic diversity inform public health surveillance, outbreak response, and pandemic preparedness. This position emphasizes the integration of high-resolution genomic data, phylogenetic and phylodynamic modeling, and machine learning approaches to:
- Reconstruct transmission networks and pathogen migration pathways
- Quantify epidemic dynamics in real time
- Develop predictive models to strengthen infectious disease prevention and control strategies
- Contribute to knowledge synthesis and capacity building in phylodynamics for public health, including teaching and course development
The role provides extensive opportunities for collaboration across microbiology, bioinformatics, epidemiology, and modeling teams, as well as for method development, data interpretation, and knowledge translation.
For more information, please view the job announcement.
