Would you like to work on the next big challenge in respiratory disease epidemiology?  H5N1 influenza is here, in the United States, in cows, and we are several shorts steps away from this pathogen being able to transmit in human populations. We just don’t know when these steps will occur.

Temple University is looking to hire one or two Research Assistant Professors to engage in novel influenza research. This position will involve research using statistical and mathematical modeling in topics related to tropical influenza epidemiology, avian influenza emergence, seroepidemiology, and vaccination to manage epidemics. This position will include a combination of methodological modeling studies and use of big-data approaches in epidemiology studies. The ideal candidate will have experience in influenza epidemiology, statistical and mathematical modeling methods, and strong scientific writing abilities. Required background and skills include a doctoral degree in epidemiology or a related field, experience with implementing statistical and mathematical models (R preferred), familiarity with high-performance computing, and an established publication record in influenza or other infectious disease topics. Experience applying for funding preferred.

Our lab moved to sunny Philadelphia in 2024. We are based at the Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine (IGEM) in Temple University’s Biology Department. Our malaria modeling work is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Please email Maciej Boni [email protected] directly for more information.

The non-tenure track research faculty posting is here — please write to me directly if this interests you but you do not yet see an opening at your level.

Salary range for research faculty positions is 80K to 90K.

There is a critical need for new global health planning in malaria – a disease that kills 600,000 individuals every year. Over the past five years, the emergence of new artemisinin-resistant malaria strains in Africa means that drug-resistance mitigation plans are urgently needed on the continent. Using the newest developments in computational epidemiology, our research group is currently assisting five national malaria control programs in Africa in designing these drug-resistance response strategies.

Please apply to this post if you would like to be part of this effort.

Our lab recently moved to sunny Philadelphia. We are based at the Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine (IGEM) in Temple University’s Biology Department. Our malaria modeling work is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. We are part of the global Applied Malaria Modeling Network (AMMNet), and we collaborate routinely with partners at Oxford, Imperial College, IS Global, and the Swiss Tropical Public Health Institute (e.g. see https://mol.ax/pdf/watson22.pdf). We provide malaria advice and analytics to WHO regularly, and we have continuous ongoing partnerships with the Rwanda Biomedical Centre and the national malaria programs of Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and Burkina Faso. We also work with MMV, JHPIEGO (at Johns Hopkins), the President’s Malaria Initiative and other large consortium projects on planning and evaluating strategies for Africa-wide artemisinin-resistance response.

We have open postdoctoral positions to work in this area.  Please email Maciej Boni [email protected] directly for more information.

Candidates should have backgrounds and expertise in computational epidemiology, individual-based simulation, mathematical modeling, statistical epidemiology, spatial modeling of epidemics, and/or arcGIS or other geospatial software.

Position also posted on Indeed.

Standard salary range for postdocs in the United States is 60K to 65K per year.

We are hiring research assistants with various backgrounds in statistics, computer science, mathematics, epidemiology, or data science.

The two artemisinin-resistance response job postings at left (or above, if you are on a phone) are for an urgent global health need — the evaluation of national-level response strategies to the increases of artemisinin-resistant malaria parasites in Africa — that we will continue trying to fill over the next year or two.

We are looking for candidates with Bachelors or Masters degrees in a quantitative science who would like to learn how to apply these tools (and learn new ones) to public health and epidemiology. At the moment, there are many roles to fill — data assembly, model validation, country-specific simulation runs, C++ maintenance, data and output visualization, map-making using GIS software.  Please feel free to apply if you have background or talent in any of these areas.

Please email Maciej Boni [email protected] if you are interested.

Position posted on Indeed.

Expected salary range between 45K and 60K, depending on experience.

CURRENTLY RECRUITING FOR FALL 2026

Students interested in pursuing a PhD should write to Maciej Boni directly ([email protected]).   Currently, we are looking for students interested in pathogen population genetics, drug-resistance modeling in malaria, respiratory virus epidemiology in the tropics, or any budding bioinformaticians with strong C++ backgrounds to write the next generation of the 3SEQ recombination detection software.

Prospective students can apply to Temple University in sunny Philadelphia through the Biology or Bioinformatics programs (deadlines in Dec 2025 and early Jan 2026).