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Job: ACT Consortium Policy Liaison Officer

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Faculty of Infections & Tropical Diseases
 

Salary:   £41,477 to £57,621 per annum inclusive
Closing Date:   Thursday 16 February 2012
Interview Date:   To be confirmed 
Reference:  DS2
 
 
An opportunity has arisen for a lecturer or senior lecturer in malaria research and control to work on a full or part time basis as the Policy Liaison Coordinator for the Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACT) Consortium led by Prof David Schellenberg.
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Open Access | Assessing the future threat from vivax malaria in the United Kingdom using two markedly different modelling approaches

Author(s): 
Steven W Lindsay, David G Hole, Robert A Hutchinson, Shane A Richards, Steven G Willis
Reference: 
Malaria Journal 2010, 9:70 (5 March 2010)
Contact email: 
Steve.Lindsay@lshtm.ac.uk

Although the future climate in the UK is favourable for the transmission of vivax malaria, the future risk of locally transmitted malaria is considered low because of low vector biting rates and the low probability of vectors feeding on a malaria-infected person.

Effectiveness of malaria chemoprophylaxis against Plasmodium falciparum infection in UK travellers: Retrospective observational data

Author(s): 
Jane N. Zuckerman, Anthony J. Batty, Michael E. Jones.
Reference: 
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, Volume 7, Issue 6, November 2009, Pages 329-336, doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2009.10.002.

Further work is required to ascertain whether ease of use and compliance may be important factors in the outcomes associated with malariachemoprophylaxis.

CLOSED: Statistician, Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network Centre for Tropical Medicine

 

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