Would you like to work on the next critical global health problem?  Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are used by hundreds of millions of people each year to treat malaria, but reports of artemisinin-resistant genotypes in Aug 2020 (Rwanda) and Nov 2021 (Uganda) have put the efficacy of ACTs at serious risk. ACTs are inexpensive, readily available treatments across all of Africa, with no second option available should they begin to fail in Africa in the coming years.

We are currently leading several international collaborations — and we are part of several international consortia — focused on developing the preparations and responses to artemisinin-resistance in Africa.  We are looking for new team members to contribute, probably for the remainder of the decade.

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 several new positions open at the Research Assistant Professor level (PhD required) and at the Computational Scientist level (no PhD required).

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 you do not yet see an opening at your level.

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

Four different positions posted on Indeed.

Posted on HigherEdJobs.

Posted on AcademicJobsOnline.

Posted on IDDJobs.

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

Salary range for computational scientist positions is 70K to 85K.

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 IN FALL 2024

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 2024 and early Jan 2025).