The Environmental Institute (EI) at the University of Virginia (UVA) is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join its Climate Fellows Postdoc Program. The selected candidate will work with an interdisciplinary team of faculty mentors and researchers to realize the goals of a project aimed at using geospatial modeling for predicting enteric infectious disease risk in changing climates.
In this project, an interdisciplinary team, including epidemiologists, climatologists, bioinformaticians, and hydrologists, will expand the Planetary Child Health and Enterics Observatory (Plan-EO), an initiative which seeks to provide an evidence base for geographically targeted interventions, such as vaccines, against enteric infectious diseases (EIDs). Using a big data approach and advanced geostatistical analyses with global Earth Observation climate datasets, the team aims to produce generalizable estimates of the geographical distribution of EIDs and their associations with environmental drivers. The project involves developing an interactive online dashboard for result dissemination and convening an international research consortium.
The Postdoctoral Research Associate will contribute to understanding the impact of hydrometeorological and ecological factors on distinct pathways of EID transmission in the context of increasing childhood illness in low- and middle-income countries due to climate change.
For more information, please view the job announcement.
