PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Epidemiology in Luxembourg

USDA-APHIS Chronic Wasting Disease Study Fellowship is a research opportunity with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in Fort Collins, Colorado. The project sits within the National Wildlife Research Center’s Chronic Wasting Disease Project and focuses on delivering research products that protect producers and natural resources from wildlife diseases and damage. The fellow will contribute to the continued development and implementation of a mu...

This ORISE opportunity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention places a participant in the Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch of the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Atlanta, Georgia. The project focuses on CDC’s suite of online GIS and mapping tools for chronic disease surveillance, including the Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke , Local Trends Dashboard , Map Widget , Quick Maps , Map ...

About the project This PhD project focuses on elbow dysplasia (ED) in dogs , a common hereditary developmental disorder affecting the elbow joint. The work aims to improve knowledge about risk factors, optimal treatment, long-term outcome, and prognosis, with the broader goal of improving treatment results and animal welfare for affected dogs. The project includes several sub-projects and combines epidemiological and clinical approaches. The doctoral student may take part in journal-based studie...

This fellowship is based within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and is hosted by the Division of Diabetes Translation , specifically the Surveillance, Epidemiology, Economics and Statistics Branch . The project offers training in the analysis of large population-based and healthcare databases to support CDC’s work on diabetes burden, prevention, treatment, and outcomes. The fellow will participate in epidemiologic and statistical research on diabetes prevalence, inciden...

This Doctor of Philosophy project at the University of Southampton will develop AI-guided synthetic bacteriophages for clinical care in military and conflict-related healthcare settings. The research addresses antimicrobial resistance and multidrug-resistant organisms, including Acinetobacter baumannii , Pseudomonas aeruginosa , Enterobacterales and Staphylococcus aureus . The project will investigate bacterial diversity and genomic characteristics in challenging healthcare environments and expl...

This research opportunity focuses on New World Screwworm modeling and surveillance within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in Fort Collins, Colorado. The project brings students into a collaborative environment with veterinary medical officers, statisticians, economists, entomologists, and ecologists working across epidemiology, risk analysis, disease modeling, economic evaluation, and surveillance. The selected participant will contribute t...

This PhD project at Umeå University sits at the intersection of molecular biology, bioinformatics, and computer science, within the Department of Molecular Biology and the national DDLS Research School in Data-driven Epidemiology and Biology of Infection . The student will work on developing computational methods and software for analysing complex biological data generated by the group’s single-cell multiomic approaches. The research focuses on microbial genomes and bacterial communities across ...

This fellowship places a participant within the Enteric Zoonoses Activity (EZA) Team in the Outbreak Response and Prevention Branch (ORPB) , Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases (DFWED) , at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. The project offers an advanced experiential learning opportunity in a multidisciplinary public health environment alongside epidemiologists, laboratorians, doctoral-level scientists, and public health advisors. The wo...

This fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention places a trainee within CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation on the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Initiative in Atlanta, Georgia. The project focuses on understanding the burden of CKD and kidney failure/end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) in the United States through analysis of large population-based and healthcare datasets. Working with experienced CDC scientists, the fellow will contribute to epidemiologic and statistical researc...