Fixed Term, Full Time Contract until February 2019
The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is an internationally recognised centre of excellence for research in tropical diseases. Through the creation of effective links with governments, organisations and institutions and by responding to the health needs of communities, LSTM aims to promote improved health, particularly for people of the less developed / resource poorest countries in the tropics and sub-tropics.
The Department of Vector Biology at LSTM is a centre of excellence in the study of insecticide resistance and its management. We have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award grant for 3 years to identify ways of improving the efficacy of malaria prevention in an insecticide resistant Africa.
Impressive reductions in malaria have occurred throughout sub-Saharan Africa over the past 12 years. However progress has not been geographically uniform and there are some high-burden countries where, despite good coverage with long lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs), parasite prevalence rates and mortality from malaria remain obstinately high. Burkina Faso falls into this category. This project will collect extensive empirical data and use models of malaria transmission to quantify the level of protection provided by LLINs and investigate the potential efficacy and limitations of alternative malaria control tools. The aim is to identify the most cost effective, complementary interventions that would drive malaria transmission towards zero.
The successful candidate will explore how malaria vector behaviour and insecticide resistance affect insecticide-treated bed net (LLIN) performance, as part of a multidisciplinary team investigating malaria prevention at national level in Burkina Faso.
Based at LSTM and working in the field in Burkina Faso, your role will be to investigate experimentally the behaviour of wild populations of mosquitoes in Burkina Faso, in collaboration with optical engineers and other biologists. With previous experience of working in the field and working with a research team, you should have proven competence in handling mosquitoes in terms of colony establishment and maintenance and manipulation in experimental protocols.
We are looking for an individual with excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), well developed research and analytical skills, plus the ability to work as an integral and co-operative member of a multi-disciplinary research team. For appointment, you will need to have a PhD in Vector Biology/ Entomology or a closely related subject.
Further details of this post can be found by visiting our website at: www.lstmed.ac.uk/vacancies
If you are interested in applying, please return your completed Application Form, Personal Details Form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form, stating vacancy reference number (096), via email to Lstmjobs@liverpool.ac.uk, or by post to HR, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA. Please note CVs will not be accepted unless accompanied by a fully completed application form.
Closing Date for completed applications: 11 April 2016, 12.00pm UK Time
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