King’s College London invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) in AI for Equitable Disease Modelling.
The PDRA will lead the development of new computational and mathematical models to quantify and predict infectious disease risk, particularly for identifying high-risk individuals and groups. The PDRA will translate conceptual frameworks into mathematical models of complex cross-scale disease dynamics across different epidemiological scenarios. A key responsibility is to test key assumptions about differential disease risk by integrating high-resolution socio-ecological, environmental, and novel health data from individual and population sources. This research will advance our understanding of how major infectious diseases of concern in the UK emerge, spread, and unequally affect different individuals and population groups.
Outcomes of this research will help advance the development of more equitable, spatial data-driven approaches to public health surveillance and pandemic preparedness, with direct links to public health policy. The findings will inform the development of a real-time spatial AI system to improve early detection and risk prediction, to protect vulnerable populations in the UK and in the future globally.
This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a 3.5-year fixed-term contract with a potential opportunity to extend. The post is offered on a hybrid working basis.
For more information, please view the King’s College job posting.
