Jobs at LSHTM

Senior Assistant Project Manager- Capital Projects (CEN-EST-2026-13)

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

LSHTM’s Project Management Office (PMO) is responsible for delivering all of the organisation’s strategic projects across a wide portfolio and the successful candidate will be joining a close-knit team with diverse skill-sets. You will be working alongside Business Analysts, Business Change PMs, IT PMs, Capital & Estates staff and Process & Project Governance professionals.

We are seeking to appoint a Senior Assistant Project Manager Capital Projects to join the PMO, reporting directly to the Senior Project Manager Capital Projects.

The primary focus of the role will be on managing and delivering key strategic Capital projects up to £15M in value, within operational and listed buildings in Central London, ensuring project plans are effectively delivered and risks, budgets, quality, scope and internal communications are actively monitored and managed.

The post holder will hold an undergraduate degree (or higher) or have demonstrable and relevant practical skills and experience. You will have experience of managing building or refurbishment projects, ideally in an HE environment, along with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You will have experience in working in a APM (Association for Project Management) or Prince2-based project environment and will be expected to champion best project management practice across our organisation.

The post is full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE and permanent.

The salary will be on the LSHTM salary scale, Grade 6 in the range £45,728 - £51,872 per annum (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part-time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM.

Applications should be made on-line via our jobs website. Online applications will be accepted by the automated system until 10pm of the closing date. Any queries regarding the application process may be addressed to jobs@lshtm.ac.uk.

The supporting statement section should set out how your qualifications, experience and training meet each of the selection criteria. Please provide one or more paragraphs addressing each criterion. The supporting statement is an essential part of the selection process and thus a failure to provide this information will mean that the application will not be considered. An answer to any of the criteria such as "Please see attached CV" will not be considered acceptable.

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

Closing Date: 02 Oct 2026

Department: Professional Services

Salary: £45,728 to £51,872 per annum pro rata inclusive

Assistant Professor in Health Economics (ITD-CRD-2026-22)

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

This post is a joint appointment between the International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH) and the Global Health Economics Centre - two world-leading groups at the forefront of global health research and policy impact.

Despite significant progress, over a billion people worldwide live with preventable or treatable vision impairment - the vast majority in low- and middle-income countries. With the planned 2030 Lancet Commission on Global Eye Health (led by ICEH) and growing funder consensus, there is urgent demand for rigorous health economics evidence to move eye care from donor-funded charity to a core feature of self-sustaining national health systems. The post-holder will be central to producing it.

You will join a team working on an exciting and highly impactful research portfolio, with scope to develop new studies. Current work includes economic evaluation of the EARN Trials (testing the economic impact of near vision glasses in Kenya and India); cost-effectiveness analyses for the CHERISH Trials integrating primary eye care into WHO/UNICEF childhood illness programmes; methodological research on QALY and DALY valuation for vision impairment; and development of health economics modules for population-based eye health surveys. You will also contribute to return-on-investment and sustainable financing research, help coordinate an international network of health economists in eye health, contribute to the 2030 Lancet Commission, and support LSHTM teaching and student supervision. The role involves travel to project teams primarily in Asia and Africa.

The successful candidate will have a doctoral degree in a relevant topic (Health Economics or closely related discipline), strong and demonstrable understanding of economic evaluation methods, through formal training and experience, experience of designing, conducting data collection and analysing health economics studies. Further particulars are included in the job description.

The post is fixed term until 31 March 2029 (with strong potential for extension subject to securing further external research funding) and full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE. The post is funded by Givewell, Founders Pledge, and NIHR and is available immediately. The salary will be on the LSHTM scale, Grade 7 in the range £53,317 - £61,034 per annum pro rata (inclusive of London Weighting).

The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM, with hybrid working available (minimum two days on-site per week).

The supporting statement section should set out how your qualifications, experience and training meet each of the selection criteria. Please provide one or more paragraphs addressing each criterion. The supporting statement is an essential part of the selection process and thus a failure to provide this information will mean that the application will not be considered. An answer to any of the criteria such as “Please see attached CV” will not be considered acceptable.

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

Closing Date: 01 Oct 2026

Department: Academic

Salary: £53,317 to £61,034 per annum pro rata inclusive

Research Fellow (ITD-DIB-2026-11)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Department of Infection Biology brings together pathogen molecular biology and immunology and infection research across the School. The Department benefits from state of the art facilities and strong collaborations, many of which are with partners in disease endemic countries.

We are seeking to appoint a Research Fellow to work in the laboratories of Prof Brendan Wren as part of a BBSRC/DEFRA consortium using glycoengineering to develop and produce veterinary vaccines. The new appointee will work as part of a team to use glycoengineering develop Brucella, Strep suis, GBS and Mycoplasma glycoconjugate vaccines for a range of livestock. The post-holder will join a vaccine research team of ten staff at the LSHTM. The post-holder will have an opportunity to contribute to publications in high impact international scientific journals and be part of a wider consortium in UK, Africa and Asia that uses a Holistic Approach to Veterinary Vaccine Applications (HoVVA).

The successful applicant will have a postgraduate degree, ideally a doctoral degree, in a relevant topic, expertise in molecular biology and glycoengineering, expertise in vaccinology and vaccine design, proven ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively as part of a research team, and proven ability to meet research deadlines. Further particulars are included in the job description.

The post is fixed term until 30 September 2029 and full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE. The post is funded by BBSRC and is available immediately. The salary will be on the LSHTM scale, Grade 6 in the range £45,728 - £51,872 per annum pro rata (inclusive of London Weighting).

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

Closing Date: 30 Sep 2026

Department: Academic

Salary: £45,728 to £51,872 per annum pro rata inclusive

Assistant Professor or Associate Professor (PHP-HSRP-2026-17)

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

This is a unique opportunity for a statistician, epidemiologist, health services researcher or data scientist to take a key role in the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre (NATCAN), a national centre of excellence dedicated to strengthening NHS cancer services. You will take a leading role in multidisciplinary teams, working alongside clinicians and other stakeholders, and develop / apply innovative analytical methods to transform national cancer datasets into evidence that improves cancer care. Areas for development include: understanding patterns of treatments and outcomes along complex care pathways; handling records with missing / erroneous data; developing risk models; and communicating findings to stimulate quality improvement.

Applicants must have a doctoral degree in medical statistics, epidemiology, data science or a related discipline along with experience of analysing large complex datasets, proven ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a research team.

The post is full-time hours 35 per week, 1.0 FTE and fixed term until 30 September 2028. The post is funded by the partnership agreement between the LSHTM and Royal College of Surgeons of England that supports the Clinical Effectiveness Unit, where NATCAN is based. It is available from 01 September 2026.

The salary will be on the LSHTM salary scale, for Assistant Professor Grade 7 in the range £53,317 - £61,034 or for Associate Professor Grade 8 in the range £64,469 - £73,994 per annum pro rata (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM.

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

Closing Date: 01 Oct 2026

Department: Academic

Salary: £53,317 to £73,994 per annum pro rata inclusive

Quality and Academic Standards Manager (CEN-EDU-2026-12)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities.

The Division of Education is led by the Pro-Director Education. The Pro-Director is responsible for leading the strategic development of the School’s education provision and maintaining oversight of its operational delivery in conjunction with the Registrar & Director of Education Services.

The Division manages and supports the School’s education provision (taught programmes, CPD short courses and research degrees), by bringing together staff from across the School's academic faculties and professional support areas, to maximise and enhance the quality of learning and education provision and the student experience.

The Quality & Academic Standards Manager will support the portfolio of the Head of Quality Enhancement and be responsible for administering a number of processes and procedures for the School’s academic portfolio.

The Quality & Academic Standards Manager also supports the development of new collaborative provision; providing expert, authoritative advice regarding the establishment and maintenance of collaborative provision activities. The Quality & Academic Standards Manager is a primary contact for the Strategic Education Office (SEO) and Education Leadership Team (ELT) regarding regulatory, policy and quality advice concerning all partnership matters.

The Quality & Academic Standards Manager will be responsible for providing independent, expert and authoritative advice on matters relating to Academic Governance and ancillary processes, including new programme approvals (validations) internally and with partners through collaborative provision. Further particulars are included in the job description.

The post is full time, 35 hours per week, 1 FTE and permanent.

The salary will be on the LSHTM salary scale, Grade 6 in the range £45,728 to £51,872 per annum (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London.

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

Closing Date: 30 Sep 2026

Department: Professional Services

Salary: £45,728 to £51,872 per annum pro rata inclusive

Research Assistant in Newborn Health Financing (EPH-EPIH-2026-11)

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

NEST360 is a partnership of 23 organisations with 18 in Africa, working with governments (Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria) to reduce neonatal mortality in hospitals through an implementation package of innovative devices, and education of clinicians and biomedical engineers, with locally-owned data to drive quality of care. https://www.nest360.org/. LSHTM leads the complex evaluation and economic assessment.

We are recruiting a Research Assistant in Newborn Health Financing to develop national investment cases for small and sick newborn care, and applying an existing template in focus countries.

The post-holder must have a first degree in the field of economics/health economics or relevant public health related field. High-level quantitative skills are required, with a strong record of policy interaction – particularly in social protection and out-of-pocket payments by families – and ideally experience of national or multi-country investment case development. Further particulars are included in the job description.

The post is full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE and fixed-term for 12 months. The post is funded by a consortium of private foundations including the Gates Foundation, and the ELMA foundation and the prime grant holder is Rice360. The post is available immediately.

The salary will be on the LSHTM salary scale, Grade 5 in the range £39,984 - £45,728 per annum pro rata (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service.  Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM or Nairobi, Kenya.

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

Closing Date: 28 Sep 2026

Department: Academic

Salary: £39,984 to £45,728 per annum pro rata inclusive

Assistant Librarian (Information Services) (CEN-LAORS-2026-02)

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities.

Library, Archive & Open Research Services (LAORS) is looking for an Assistant Librarian who is an experienced information literacy teacher to expand the existing Information Services team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to actively contribute to the development of the annual information skills programme during a time of exciting change in LSHTM’s education programmes. This post will be responsible for ensuring developments in universal design principles and accessible pedagogy are successfully integrated into the programme.

The post-holder will also contribute to the evidence-synthesis literature searching service which provides support to staff undertaking evidence synthesis projects and collaborates with research teams to create literature searches to published methodological standards.

You will hold a recognised postgraduate degree in library & information science. It is essential that you have proven experience of effectively delivering information literacy teaching and support to adults informed by universal design for learning or accessibility best practice, preferably in a higher education or medical library environment. Being customer focused with the ability to work together with service users from diverse backgrounds and life experiences are also essential.

The post holder is required to work 09:00-17:00 Monday-Friday. All full-time LAORS staff work a minimum of 2 days on site per week but may be required to work additional days on site as the nature of the role or demand on the service dictates.

The post is full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE and fixed term for 24 months.

The salary will be on the LSHTM salary scale, Grade 5 in the range £39,984 - £45,728 per annum (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM.

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

Closing Date: 24 Sep 2026

Department: Professional Services

Salary: £39,984 to £45,728 per annum pro rata inclusive

GenAI Research Fellow (PHP-PHES-2026-11)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Digital Determinants of Health Hub is seeking a Research Fellow for a Wellcome Trust-funded programme examining how digital environments influence adolescent health.

The candidate will lead development of a novel multimodal-GenAI framework to annotate and classify social media data (video, audio, text), using high-performance computing environments to develop privacy-preserving analytical pipelines for social media data donation research.

Working with Dr Amrit Kaur Purba (Principal Investigator), and interdisciplinary collaborators, they will lead on human annotation, codebook development, multimodal embedding generation, model training and refinement, and large-scale inference workflows. The project engages UK-government stakeholders, reflecting its policy relevance.

Applicants should hold a postgraduate degree, ideally a doctoral degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational social science, data science, or a related computational discipline.

Applicants must have experience with digital trace/multimedia datasets and in: multimodal AI, machine-learning, human annotation, multimodal embedding generation, model training and refinement, large-scale inference pipelines, or reproducible computational workflows.

Strong programming skills (e.g., Python) implementing computational analytical pipelines and familiarity with machine-learning frameworks are required.

The post is full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE and fixed term for 19 months with the possibility of an extension, subject to funding. The post is funded by the Wellcome Trust and is available from 01 January 2027.

The salary will be on the LSHTM salary scale, Grade 6 in the range £45,728 - £50,854 per annum pro rata (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM.

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

Closing Date: 27 Sep 2026

Department: Academic

Salary: £45,728 to £50,854 per annum pro rata inclusive

Research Fellow in Health Economics (PHP-HSRP-2026-18)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) wishes to appoint a Research Fellow in Health Economics. The post sits within the Department of Health Services Research and Policy and links to the Global Health Economics Centre, a cross-school initiative that draws together on a number of studies and work over 150 health economists at the LSHTM. Members of the Centre undertake wide-ranging research of international significance and direct policy relevance.

The post offers an excellent opportunity to work on a new research programme on economic evaluations that use trial data within a highly supportive, collegiate environment. The postholder will work on a number of studies related to the management of bladder cancer and self-care.

The successful candidate will have a postgraduate, ideally doctoral degree in a relevant field and have strong quantitative skills and formal training in economic evaluation and related methods.

The post is full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE and fixed term until 31 March 2028. The post is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and is available from 01 October 2026.

The salary will be on the LSHTM salary scale, Grade 6 in the range £45,728 - £51,872 per annum pro rata (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM.

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

Closing Date: 04 Oct 2026

Department: Academic

Salary: £45,728 to £51,872 per annum pro rata inclusive

Research Fellow or Assistant Professor (PHP-GHD-2026-13)

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Applications are invited for an economist to work on a project exploring evidence informed priority setting to inform Health Benefit Package (HBP) Design for Universal Health Coverage in Rwanda and Kenya. The postholder’s role will include:

Contributing to work on understanding the economic consequences of health benefit package design and the resulting policy changes
Supporting a capacity strengthening programme around HBP design in Rwanda and Kenya
Contributing to written outputs.

The postholder will be part of the Global Health Economics Centre, a world-leading group of over 100 academics working on a diverse portfolio of health economics research.

The successful applicant will have expertise in the area of health economics and financing in low- and middle-income countries, strong quantitative analytical skills, and must have a postgraduate degree, ideally a doctoral degree (for Research Fellow) or a doctoral degree (for Assistant Professor) in a relevant discipline.

The post is full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE and fixed term until 30 September 2028. The post is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and is available from 01 October 2026.

The salary will be on the LSHTM salary scale, for Research Fellow Grade 6 in the range £45,728 - £51,872 or for Assistant Professor Grade 7 in the range £53,317 - £61,034 per annum pro rata (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM.

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

Closing Date: 24 Sep 2026

Department: Academic

Salary: £45,728 to £61,034 per annum pro rata inclusive

Network Manager – Maternity Cover (0.5 FTE) (PHP-GHD-2026-12)

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a major concern for health and health equity around the globe. IMPACT AMR is a transdisciplinary network funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding as part of its work to tackle infections. The IMPACT AMR network brings together national and international researchers, practitioners, policy makers, citizens and other stakeholders to support the prioritisation of interventions to control and manage AMR. The Network Manager – Maternity Cover role is critical to the network’s success. They will be responsible for building, maintaining and fostering a multi-country community, creating and maintaining platforms through which to achieve this, including developing and curating high profile events and a website, requiring a high level of scientific understanding as well as project management experience.

The successful applicant must possess scientific expertise, ideally in the field of antimicrobial resistance, as well as experience of providing proactive administrative support of academic research, including proven ability to monitor budgets and prepare accurate costings, projections and reports; ability to use initiative and judgement to solve problems; to manage a busy workload; and work to a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. They must demonstrate excellent communication skills. Applicants should be educated to degree level or equivalent experience. Further particulars are included in the job description.

The post is part-time 17.5 hours per week, 0.5 FTE and fixed term until 17 October 2027. The post is funded by the UKRI IMPACT AMR Network and is available from 19 October 2026.

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

Closing Date: 25 Sep 2026

Department: Professional Services

Salary: £45,728 to £51,872 per annum pro rata inclusive

Assistant Professor in Leadership and Management (PHP-CEN-2026-03)

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Faculty of Public Health and Policy is the largest multi-disciplinary public health group in Europe, and one of the largest groups of social scientists working on health world-wide. We engage with people, policymakers and service providers to ensure our research is inclusive, relevant, and informs policy and practice.

The Assistant Professor in Leadership and Management will provide academic oversight of LSHTM’s education in leadership and management in the context of public and global health. They will have curriculum oversight of key leadership and management modules within our MSc and our Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH). They will develop and maintain a programme of research in the field of leadership and management in public health.

Applicants must have a doctoral degree in a related discipline and management and leadership experience. Applicants should also have a broad understanding of the discipline of Public Health and its practical application, and experience of educational and curriculum development as well as teaching management, ideally at post-graduate level.

The post is full-time 35 hours per week, 1.0 FTE and fixed term for three years. A job share would be considered. The post is funded by the faculty and is available from 01 September 2026.

The salary will be on the LSHTM salary scale, Grade 7 in the range £53,317 - £61,034 per annum pro rata (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM.

Applications should be made online via our jobs website. Online applications will be accepted by the automated system until 10pm of the closing date. Any queries regarding the application process may be addressed to jobs@lshtm.ac.uk. Please quote reference PHP-CEN-2026-03.

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

Closing Date: 29 Sep 2026

Department: Academic

Salary: £53,317 to £61,034 per annum pro rata inclusive