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Professor Tropical Bacteriology:

Employer
Institute of Tropical Medicine
Location
Antwerp (BE)
Salary
A salary package depending on your profile and professional experience, and supplementary benefits
Closing date 24 Mar 2024
Discipline

Biomedicine, Health Science
Job Type
Professor
Employment - Hours
Full time
Duration
Permanent
Qualification
PhD
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Department of Clinical Sciences

Introduction
The Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp aims at the advancement and spread of science that contributes to infectious disease medicine and to public health globally with a focus on low
- and middle-income countries, inclusive of their global dimensions. ITM provides fundamental, translational and applied scientific research, delivers advanced education and provides medical, scientific and societal expert services. The ITM is an open and international campus where staff, students and researchers work on new international health challenges.

ITM's Department of Clinical Sciences strives for optimal diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tropical and globalized infectious diseases.

The department has long-standing well-recognised expertise in working with both epidemic and endemic infectious diseases in limited resource settings and in the conduct of clinical trials of treatments, vaccines, and diagnostics, supported by the ITM Clinical Trials Unit, and a newly established Clinical Trials Centre.

We host the national reference laboratory for the diagnosis of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, an AIDS reference laboratory and several national reference centres including for Arboviruses and Sexually Transmitted Infections.

The ITM clinic sees over 20,000 travellers a year. The ITM clinical reference laboratory, supporting the clinic, covers the diagnosis of viral, bacterial and parasitic pathogens.

The thriving and multidisciplinary Unit of Tropical Bacteriology, currently consisting of nine people, covers the entire academic triad (research, education, capacity strengthening).

In terms of education, the unit leads an antimicrobial resistance short course (AIM) and the Field lab preparedness training, and supports various other courses within the institute and external partners.

A wide range of educational material is made freely available.

In terms of scientific capacity building, a blood-culture AMR surveillance network has been set-up in hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, DRC, Mozambique, Ethiopia,), Peru and Cambodia.

This also constitutes the back-bone for joint research activities with the various partners.

The core of the operational research activities is focused on the surveillance of AMR and innovations in diagnostic bacteriology in hospital settings in resource-limited settings.

Other research lines cover diagnosis, treatment and epidemiology of non-typhoid salmonellosis, and vaccination studies in limited resource settings.

Key partners or funders include FIND, WHO, EDCTP, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MSF.

With the retirement of the current professor approaching, the department is opening up a position for a professor in Tropical Bacteriology.

This position encompasses the classical academic triad of research, education and service delivery.

Your Role

Develop and lead a comprehensive portfolio of innovative research, education, capacity building and policy support in the field of Health Policy, with specific attention to the interconnectedness of international and national health policies and systems.
Strengthen the Unit's research portfolio, by attracting external funding, developing/joining international research partnerships, attracting PhD students and increasing the international reputation and visibility of ITM's work in this academic field.
Provide, through the unit's and your own expertise, expert advice to relevant national and international stakeholders, particularly but not exclusively the Belgian Development Cooperation (DGD).

- (Co)lead or (co)teach modules and short courses on health policy and related topics within ITM, and contribute to the adaptation of teaching curricula as required.

Maintain and expand the Unit's and ITM's international partnerships with likeminded networks and institutions, for mutual learning, capacity strengthening and policy impact.
Lead the Unit and ensure its scientific activities and management, including the budgetary responsibility.
Depending on your seniority, you will coach/mentor or advise/support the members of the unit. You will foster a collaborative and creative environment in which senior researchers are encouraged to develop their own research lines, and to invest in project writing and in teaching.
Ensure complementarity and synergies with the other units in the Department of Public Health, particularly but not exclusively with the Pharmaceutical Public Health unit; and you will strive f