At Our Future Health, we're building the UK's largest ever health research programme. We're bringing together up to 5 million volunteers to create an unparalleled resource that will transform how we detect, prevent and treat diseases such as cancer, dementia, diabetes and heart disease.
We're now looking for two Epidemiologists to join our growing Epidemiology team. While both roles share a common foundation in epidemiological methods and collaborative data science, each will have a different area of focus:
- Health Questionnaires; leading the development of new participant questionnaires and ensuring they are scientifically robust, valid and fit for purpose. You will come with a strong background in questionnaire design and validation.
- Questionnaire Data; applying epidemiological expertise to different data sets. Perhaps you've worked with air pollution data, biomarkers, or clinical measurement data before.
As an Epidemiologist, you'll provide epidemiological expertise across multidisciplinary teams developing data products and research services. You'll work closely with data scientists, engineers, product managers and designers to ensure complex health data are transformed into scientifically robust, high-quality resources for researchers.
You'll contribute to study design, data interpretation and analytical approaches, helping ensure our outputs are reproducible, ethical and aligned with participant trust and governance requirements.
Across both roles, you will:
- Provide epidemiological expertise to multidisciplinary data and research enablement teams.
- Collaborate with data scientists, engineers and product managers to develop scalable, scientifically robust health datasets and analytical solutions.
- Conduct descriptive, exploratory and population health analyses that support research and organisational priorities.
- Ensure analytical approaches are reproducible, scientifically rigorous and aligned with governance, ethics and disclosure control requirements.
- Clearly communicate analytical methods, assumptions, limitations and findings to scientific, technical and non-technical audiences.
- Contribute to analytical standards, reusable code, documentation and continuous improvement across the organisation.
Requirements
- An MSc or PhD in Epidemiology, Public Health, Biostatistics, Data Science or another relevant biomedical discipline (or equivalent experience).
- Strong understanding of study design, cohort construction, bias, confounding and the interpretation of observational health data.
- Experience working with large-scale health datasets, such as electronic health records, longitudinal cohort studies or routinely collected healthcare data.
- Proficiency in R or Python for statistical analysis and reproducible workflows.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex analyses to a range of audiences.
- A collaborative approach and experience working within multidisciplinary teams.
- The ability to prioritise competing demands while maintaining scientific rigour in a fast-moving environment.
Closing date for applications: 9am, Tuesday 14th July
Benefits
- Salary from £50,000.
- Generous Pension Scheme – We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.
- 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays – Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you.
- Enhanced Parental Leave – Supporting you during life’s biggest moments.
- Cycle to Work Scheme – Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice.
- Home & Tech Savings – Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice.
- £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus – Know someone amazing? Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
- Wellbeing Support – Access to Mental Health First Aiders, plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
- A Great Place to Work – We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn, and offer flexible and remote working arrangements.
At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process.
If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at [email protected]
Skills Required
- MSc or PhD in Epidemiology, Public Health, Biostatistics, Data Science or related discipline (or equivalent experience)
- Strong understanding of study design, cohort construction, bias, confounding, and interpretation of observational health data
- Experience working with large-scale health datasets (electronic health records, longitudinal cohorts, routinely collected healthcare data)
- Proficiency in R or Python for statistical analysis and reproducible workflows
- Strong background in questionnaire design and validation (for the Health Questionnaires role)
- Experience with questionnaire data, such as air pollution, biomarkers, or clinical measurement data (for the Questionnaire Data role)
- Excellent communication skills to explain complex analyses to scientific, technical and non-technical audiences
- Collaborative experience working within multidisciplinary teams and ability to prioritise competing demands while maintaining scientific rigour
What We Do
Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to prevent, detect and treat diseases. Our mission is to create an incredibly detailed picture of the UK population’s health, by recruiting up to five million adult volunteers from across the UK. Each volunteer will be asked to fill out a questionnaire and provide a blood sample that can be linked to their health records. Taken together, the data will present health researchers with a powerful tool to identify new ways of tackling diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and dementia. It's an unprecedented challenge that involves answering questions that have never been asked before – ethical, practical, and technological. And by getting these answers right, we believe Our Future Health will allow future generations to live in good health for longer. We are currently expanding our team and looking for specialists across various fields – people who are motivated by the opportunity of creating something new that will make a difference to society. Click on the Jobs tab above to start exploring our current opportunities. Our Future Health is a registered charity in England, Wales and Scotland.
