Postdoctoral Position in Environmental Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description We are currently seeking to recruit a post-doctoral researcher at the “Infectious diseases, interactions and antimicrobial resistance” Team of the Inserm CESP research center (Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations, Villejuif, France). The global aim of the project, funded by the Fondation de France, is to assess the association between the short-term exposure to meteorological factors and the risk of hospitalization for different subgroups of community-acquired bacterial infections in France, using data from EDP – Health database. Applicants should have a PhD in Epidemiology or Biostatistics. Training in time series methods would be an asset, as well as previous experience in environmental epidemiology and with medico-administrative databases. He/she should also be open to data mining techniques. In order to use the French databases, training in French is mandatory. Technical Skills: . Mastery of advanced time series methodologies, notably Distributed Lag Non-Linear Models (DLNM) or other state-of-the-art models for environmental exposures. Familiarity with the design of epidemiological studies on environmental exposures and with the management of large datasets. The successful candidate must have strong R programming skills. The selected candidate will work in close collaboration with scientists who have expertise in epidemiology, biostatistics, and infectio