Postdoctoral Research Associate in Pharmacoepidemiology

About the Role
Bringing expertise in pharmacoepidemiology and statistics, the postholder will lead a research study focused on improving the evidence around the safety and effects of medicines in populations previously under-represented in clinical research. Populations of interest include pregnant women, people from minoritized ethnic groups, and people with multiple long-term conditions. The project will use UK based electronic health records data to examine the causal effects of treatments by emulating, benchmarking and extending randomized trials in observational data. The post-holder will be responsible for cleaning and manipulating datasets for analysis, undertaking complex statistical analyses and presenting the results for discussion and interpretation.

About You
The post would be ideally suited to someone proactive and ambitious who has obtained their PhD and has begun an academic career in epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, or medical statistics, with a focus on causal inference methods applied to electronic health records research.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project
The Wolfson Institute of Population Health harnesses expertise across a wide range of population-based research and education activities and aims to be an internationally recognised centre of excellence in population health, primary care and preventive medicine. The postholder will work in the Clinical Effectiveness Group, within the Centre for Primary Care. The group turns electronic health record data into actionable insight and innovation and produces internationally significant research and work with local and international partners teams to support GP practices on the ground.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.