Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
4 days ago
Eastern Cape, Eastern Cape
The University of Fort Hare (UFH) is among the ten universities jointly co-leading the DSI-NRF Institute for the Preparedness and Prevention of Pandemics. The Institute’s activities are multidisciplinary with national spread and continental and global networks. The Institute will have the task of facilitating a unified national response to a future pandemic or preventing an occurrence. The Institute is segregated into Thematic Research Centers and Integrated Platforms, and UFH is jointly hosting Thematic Research Centers, and one of the Thematic Centers focuses on the epidemiology of endemic and emerging pathogens. Anti-microbial resistance will be a key research focus
**POSITION**:
**MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES**:
- Establish sentinel surveillance sites to enable real-time testing and data reporting of novel members of the ESKAPE + V
- Establish the drivers of virulence in novel members of the ESKAPE + V
- Set up a reporting system for pathogen diagnosis from the environment and fomites to enable real-time testing and data
- Strengthen surveillance programs for diarrheal pathogens, to investigate the incidence, prevalence, and seasonal distribution of these infectious
- Modeling infectious
- Publish at least three (3) research articles in DHET-accredited journals and book
**ELIGIBILITY AND DESIRED PROFILE**:
- The postdoctoral fellow should be willing to support the postgraduate students’ research in the Patho-Biocatalysis Group (PBG) and the Infectious Diseases and Medicinal Plants Research Niche
- Preference will be given to the following persons, taken into consideration and regarding employment equity:
- Female
- South African, or a permanent resident
**APPLICATIONS**:
**NOTE**:
- For more information please contact:
- Siyamthanda Sigodi
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