Senior Research Manager, Research Uptake

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships. We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

The Infectious Disease Solutions Programme (IDSP) is looking for a Senior Research Manager with experience of managing research projects particularly within global health. You will help oversee projects focused on best use of vaccines to control infectious diseases, generating evidence to support vaccine use, promoting evidence informed decision-making, and advocating for the full value of vaccines to achieve Wellcome’s strategic goals, in our existing antimicrobial resistance (AMR), Cholera, VBD and TB research portfolios alongside contributing to the wider portfolio of activities within the Vaccines team which is one of 4 teams within IDSP.

We are looking for an individual with a passion for global health, and interest in research uptake to work collaboratively across the IDSP team and Wellcome to address key gaps in the global health field and support delivery of our Vaccines portfolio. This is an exciting time to join Wellcome under the direction of our new CEO John-Arne Rottingen, who joined in 2024.

The Infectious Disease Solutions Programme (IDSP) is a relatively new team and as such this is an opportune time to join and help us drive forward our strategy. The team focusses on two key drivers of infectious disease – environmental change and antimicrobial resistance. We take a holistic approach combining an interest in gaining a better understanding of these drivers in order to drive the development and use of interventions. Our current focus is on vector borne disease, cholera, TB, and AMR with a geographical focus on Africa and South South-East Asia.

You will be joining a multidisciplinary, collaborative and enthusiastic team (the Vaccines team) focused on developing impactful vaccines for low-and-middle income countries, gaining a greater understanding of protective immunity and filling key knowledge gaps that inform policy makers on the best use of these vaccines.

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