Research Fellow in Applied Machine Learning

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

The Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology & International Health is seeking to appoint a Research Fellow to the NeoShield Study, a multi-country project designed to reduce neonatal mortality from healthcare-associated infections in Zambia and Malawi.

The study integrates clinical, microbiological, and data science approaches to generate evidence and tools for safer, more targeted infection management in hospitalised newborns.

Key output involves leading the design, development, deployment and evaluation of NeoShield’s applied machine-learning systems, the machine-learning-driven Clinical Decision Support Algorithm for neonatal sepsis and the real-time ward-level outbreak detection system.

The successful candidate will hold a postgraduate degree, ideally a doctoral degree, in a relevant discipline (e.g. machine learning, data science, epidemiology or another quantitative field), and will have applied experience in machine-learning, with extensive experience of hands-on model development, testing, validation and deployment using real-work datasets in operational environments. Demonstrated experience in data engineering and ETL workflows required to prepare large, real-world dataset for machine-learning development is also essential. Please note experience in healthcare settings is not essential. Further particulars are included in the job description. 

The post is full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE and fixed-term for 24 months with potential for extension subject to funding. The post is funded by Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation and is available immediately.

The salary will be on the LSHTM salary scale, Grade 6 in the range £45,728-£51,872 per annum pro rata (inclusive of London weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part-time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM.