PhD Studentship in Vaccine Effectiveness Estimation for Respiratory Viruses London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford in Development and Validation of External Control Arm Methodology Using Clinical Trial and Real-World Data (Botnar-2026-03). This DPhil in Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics focuses on developing and validating external control arms (ECAs) using routinely collected real-world healthcare data and electronic health records. The project will compare ECA-derived treatment effects with completed randomized controlled trials, assess the value of li...

University of Oxford’s Botnar Research Centre is advertising a PhD/DPhil project in clinical epidemiology and medical statistics focused on emulating and extending randomised controlled trials (RCTs) using routinely collected real-world medical record data from Europe. The project explores the benchmark – expand – calibrate approach for causal inference across different data types, including electronic health records from the UK and other European countries, and across multiple study types such ...

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford in Agentic AI for Analytical Code Development to Support Regulatory Real-World Evidence Generation (Botnar-2026-04). This DPhil in Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics is a 3.5-year project based at the Botnar Research Centre , University of Oxford, focused on using agentic artificial intelligence and large language models to translate study protocols into reproducible analytical code for real-world evidence studies. The project sits at the int...

Applications are opening soon for the International PhD Programme in Epidemiology and Public Health (IPPE) at Tampere University in Finland. This is a doctoral training opportunity focused on epidemiology , public health , and related research areas, with an emphasis on preparing future experts and leaders in research, policy, and public health practice in a global context. The programme offers one academic year of coursework in Tampere, followed by flexible PhD research in Finland or abroad. It...

The Infectious Disease Dynamics group in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is seeking one postdoctoral fellow or staff scientist to work on projects related to malaria epidemiology and the introduction of the malaria vaccine . This opportunity is well suited to candidates with interests in infectious disease dynamics, epidemiology, vaccine implementation, and public health research. The post is hosted by a major public health school and appears to ...