The Global Health Resilience (GHR) group led by ICREA Research Professor Rachel Lowe at the BSC-CNS is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to co-create innovate modelling tools for impact attribution of climate-related health risks.
The selected candidate will work within the Wellcome Trust funded project TACTIC (HealTh ImpAct ToolkIt for Climate change attribution). The project will deliver a user-friendly and didactic digital toolkit comprising a series of resources tailored to the needs of policymakers, researchers and other professionals (public health, journalists, communication experts) to better comprehend, interpret and communicate findings and conduct new health impact attribution studies. Together with partners in South America, Africa and Europe, the successful candidate will co-devise new methodologies to fill knowledge gaps on important but rarely assessed climate change related health impacts (chronic kidney disease, mental and perinatal health, and climate-sensitive infectious diseases) and explore inequalities (e.g., age, sex and socioeconomic status) associated with climate change.
The postdoctoral researcher will co-develop training materials (e.g., guidelines and hands-on tutorials with R code and example data) for different users (e.g., researchers, public health professionals) to learn how to combine historical counterfactual and future scenarios with epidemiological data and to apply the latest methodologies in health impact attribution. The candidate will work closely with the BSC Knowledge Integration team to co-develop health-impact stories to disseminate information generated in the project TACTIC to a broad audience, making the health impacts of climate change more tangible.
Closing Date: February 07, 2025
For more information, please view the job announcement.
