About the role
This fixed-term (2-year) Epidemiologist/Data Scientist post sits in the Institute for Neuroscience and Cardiovascular Research, School of Neurological and Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Edinburgh, and is funded by the British Heart Foundation. Working with Dr Peter Gallacher and Prof. Neeraj Dhaun, the postholder will use high-fidelity, routinely-collected NHS data to improve cardiovascular risk prediction and management in patients with kidney disease -- accessing and curating large linked datasets, designing data-linkage studies, running statistical models, and mentoring junior team members as the group grows.
Candidates need an undergraduate degree in mathematics, statistics, computing, or a health-related field, with experience in clinical epidemiology, health data science, data management, and statistical modelling, plus proficiency in R. Salary is £41,064 to £48,822 per annum (Grade UE07, 35 hours/week).
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