Funded PhD in Science Communication and Health Communication at the University of Zurich University of Zurich in Switzerland

The Institute of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) at the University of Zurich is recruiting two PhD students for the project “Social Media Use and Self-Effects on Adolescents' Physical Activity” , led by Prof. Dr. Thomas N. Friemel and Dr. Michelle Möri . The project examines how creating and sharing one’s own media content influences adolescents’ health behavior, especially in the areas of sports and fitness. A central theme is the study of media effects , social media use , adolescent p...

University of Bern / University Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Directorate of Teaching and Research (Bern, Switzerland) is recruiting a PhD student for the PROTECT-SH project. The doctoral project is titled Self-Harm and New Media and is embedded in PROTECT-SH , a Horizon Europe -funded international consortium with partners in seven countries. The research focuses on how social media use may promote or protect against self-harming and suicidal behavior in adolescents and young ad...

PhD opening at the University of Bern in the Machine Learning in Medicine Lab for research on modelling disease progression from multimodal health data . The project sits at the intersection of computer science , medical science , statistics , and public health , with data sources including imaging , wearables , and clinical records . Research directions mentioned include multimodal representation learning , causal machine learning , learning with missing data , fairness , and uncertainty quanti...

This fellowship is hosted by the Infant Outcomes Monitoring, Research, and Prevention Branch within the Division of Birth Defects and Infant Disorders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. The project sits in CDC’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities and focuses on work that supports birth defects surveillance, research, and prevention. Participants train under an assigned mentor and work across projects related to maternal and infant ...

This CDC fellowship is based with the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) Monitoring and Evaluation team in the Global Workforce Development Branch , Division of Global Health Protection , at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. The project is centered on understanding how FETPs are implemented and how they contribute to strengthening public health capacity across different settings. As a fellow, you will work in a mentored research and evaluation environmen...