ATSAF Job news - 27.04.07

1. Graduate Student Position, Freie Universitaet Berlin

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1.The Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine

invites applications for a BMZ funded

Graduate Student Position

(German public services; Verg. Gr. IIa BAT; 19,25 hours per week; until 31.08.2009 with

possible prolongation and the opportunity to prepare a doctorate dissertation)

Area of Research:

"Preventing and containing trypanocide resistance in the cotton zone of West Africa"

Activities:

Design and implementation of an integrated control strategy for African Animal

Trypanosomosis that combines rational drug use (RDU) information dissemination with

externally supported community vector (tsetse) control. This strategy will be implemented in

selected villages comprising the drug resistance hot spots detected during phase 1 of the

project in Mali and Burkina Faso. A two-year longitudinal study will monitor key entomological

and epidemiological parameters. Mathematical models will be extended to better understand

drug resistance genesis and decay, and make confident recommendations for resistance

containment outside the study area.

Requirements:

Candidates should have a degree in Veterinary Medicine.

Candidates of any nationality can apply but there are substantial language requirements.

Project activities are conducted in French and oral and written fluency in French is required.

The thesis will be written in English and a working knowledge of English would be helpful.

More details on the requirements for a German Dissertation Degree ("Promotionsordnung")

are available on the web site of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universitaet Berlin

(www.vetmed.fu-berlin.de). Additional post-graduate training (Diploma, Master) in

epidemiology and experience in tropical countries would be beneficial.

Interested candidates should send a letter of application (Ref.: 0408254402), a curriculum

vitae, copies of high school and university certificates and a letter of reference from each of

two referees to the:

Freie Universität Berlin,

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,

Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine,

Koenigsweg 67

D-14163 Berlin (Dueppel)

Germany.

Deadline for applications is April 30th, 2007. Further information can be requested from

PD Dr. P.-H. Clausen (Phone: +49 30 83862505; Email: tropvetm@zedat.fu-berlin.de ).