The Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) is a cutting-edge institute addressing global public health challenges through research, translation into policy, and education. ISGlobal has a broad portfolio in communicable and non-communicable diseases, including environmental and climate determinants, and applies a multidisciplinary scientific approach ranging from the molecular to the population level.
Research is organized in five programs: Climate, Air Pollution, Nature and Urban Health; Environment and Health over the Lifecourse; Global Viral and Bacterial Infections; Malaria and Neglected Parasitic Diseases; and Maternal Child and Reproductive Health. ISGlobal is accredited with the Severo Ochoa distinction, a seal of excellence of the Spanish Science Ministry.
We are seeking one talented and highly motivated computer programmer to join the research team of Dr. Joan Ballester at ISGlobal within the framework of various research projects, mainly the ERC Consolidator grant EARLY-ADAPT. The team is at the forefront of environmental epidemiology by analyzing a novel database of human health in Europe, which incorporates a range of environmental, socioeconomic, and demographic variables and novel digital data streams at different spatiotemporal scales.
EARLY-ADAPT ("Signs of Early Adaptation to Climate Change", 2021-2026, Grant Agreement 865564) is a European Research Council Consolidator Grant (ERC-2019-CoG), whose overarching aim is to jointly analyze the multiple drivers of recent trends in human health. Its driving hypothesis is that societies are starting to adapt to climate change, but the effectiveness of early adaptation is heterogeneous in space and time. EARLY-ADAPT is creating a daily, continental-wide database with multiple health outcomes, climate variables, air pollutants, desert dust, and winter infectious diseases. The database is being used to model the relation between health and the environment, quantify the modifying effect of societal factors, and perform a predictability analysis to determine the most realistic adaptation scenarios for the projections of future health. The project will allow for the detection, understanding, and quantification of the inequalities in adaptation between countries, regions, cities, and social groups. More information is available here.
Key ResponsibilitiesThe main duty of the chosen candidate is to contribute to the creation of a new research database.
Specific DutiesTowards this aim, the chosen candidate will have to:
Search for and download open access data sources.Implement harmonization protocols for a successful integration of data.Write and run scripts to transform the data into a common data format.Interact with the scientists of the group to adapt the data to their scientific needs.
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