Key Placement Information
Closing Date: Friday 17th October at 23:59 GMT
Start Date: Monday 5th January 2026
Duration: 3 months (or part-time equivalent)
Full-time or Part-time: Full-time is preferred, but there is some flexibility
In Person, Online or Hybrid: Online
Host Location: London
Job Sector: Public
Project Areas: Research and Analysis, Policy Impact, Strategic Insight
How to Apply: Send your CV and cover letter to the CDO Partnerships Team, UKHSA, Becca.dikuyi@ukhsa.gov.uk and CDOPartnerships@ukhsa.gov.uk with the subject line “WRDTP and UKHSA FHS placement application”
Project Description
UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is looking for academic expertise to support the development of a new capability to understand health security futures and the implications potential futures scenarios may have for UKHSA and wider government, to inform future strategy and planning.
This placement will be within the All Hazards Intelligence (AHI) Situational Awareness team, which is currently responsible for developing the Health Security Risk Assessment which assesses risk over a six-month to five-year time period.
During this placement we would expect you to:
- Read, understand, and collate existing materials on health security futures.
- Work with the AHI Situational Awareness team to understand internal (to UKHSA) and external (wider government, academia and industry) stakeholder landscape and agree an approach to stakeholder engagement.
- Carry out stakeholder engagement to understand current capability, expert thinking, and good practice, to feed into Deliverable 1 (Gap and capability analysis).
- Develop forward plan for developing a futures capability (Deliverable 2), working with stakeholders across UKHSA to understand a feasible approach.
