Graduate Teaching Assistantship

How do individual and community characteristics influence health-related behaviours in transitional societies?

LSHTM is at the forefront, internationally, of research seeking to elicit the impact of community characteristics on individual behaviour (e.g. the extent to which an environment encourages or discourages healthy eating and physical activity). However, research now underway focuses on the UK, Western Europe, and other high income countries. This research position will take advantage of a major project just beginning that will gather data from a combination of nationally representative population surveys and community profiles in ten former Soviet countries. The population surveys will include data on demographic, socio-economic, health and lifestyle characteristics (including diet, physical activity, smoking and alcohol consumption). The community profiles will also take place throughout the ten countries and seek to measure features of the environments in which people live that may impact on their health, using a combination of direct observation and surveys of perceptions.
The research will utilise the data from this project to investigate how individual and community characteristics influence health-related behaviours in the ten study countries. It will primarily involve quantitative analysis and will allow the successful applicant to acquire skills in survey methods, standard regression methods, multi-level analysis, and the of geographical information systems. There may also be opportunities for qualitative work depending on the language skills of the successful applicant. In addition, the applicant will be required to develop a detailed understanding of health needs assessment and health strategy development.

Eligibility requirements

This project will be based in the Department of Public Health & Policy.

Graduate Teaching Assistantships