PhD Opportunities in Epidemiology

Albert Salas-Huetos and the research group at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) are seeking PhD students to join an international and multidisciplinary research environment in reproductive, maternal and child health. The group investigates how nutrition influences reproductive health and fertility, including dietary patterns and nutritional biomarkers relevant to male and female reproductive outcomes. A second research line examines early-life health and development, including maternal and pate...

Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health is inviting applications for a Fall 2027 PhD in Biostatistics. The program offers advanced training in biostatistics and statistical methodology within a public-health research environment. Students can pursue research across artificial intelligence and machine learning, epidemiology and infectious disease modelling, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, spatial statistics, longitudinal data analysis, statistical genetics and genomics, clinical...

This PhD scholarship sits within Monash University’s evidence-based rheumatology research environment and the Australian and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trials Network (ANZMUSC). The project focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of living clinical practice guidelines in rheumatology, an area that aims to keep recommendations current through continuous evidence surveillance, systematic reviewing, GRADE methodology, and digital guideline platforms. The successful cand...

Wiser Healthcare at Monash University is offering a PhD scholarship within a new NHMRC-funded Centre of Research Excellence focused on strengthening health system sustainability and resilience. The project sits inside an internationally recognised Australian research collaboration that aims to improve the value, sustainability and equity of health care while supporting stronger outcomes for patients, practitioners, the public and the planet. The successful candidate will join the Wiser Healthcar...

This PhD position is part of the European REPLICATE project, which aims to strengthen the reliability, transparency, and societal value of research by making replication a more routine part of scientific practice. The project focuses on replicating influential published studies across different disciplines, with one of the planned replication studies centred on psychiatry and related fields. The doctoral researcher will work within the Research Integrity group in the Department of Ethics, Law an...

The Doctoral Programme in Clinical Pharmacy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München focuses on improving drug safety in hospital care. It brings together pharmacy and medicine to address complex pharmacotherapy for patients with multiple conditions and medication regimens. The research themes include individual dose adjustment, drug-drug interactions, adverse drug events, and personalised medicine. Projects are carried out in cooperation with specific medical disciplines and are mentored by te...

The Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS) in Bremen is expanding its work on the prevention of chronic, non-communicable diseases across the life course and is seeking several PhD students for this research programme. The position sits in a cross-departmental environment involving all scientific departments of BIPS and offers the chance to contribute to projects that connect epidemiology, prevention science, and health-related decision making. The research themes incl...

PhD opportunity in precision medicine and global health at the University of Glasgow. Professor Pasquale Maffia is recruiting a PhD student for an MRC Precision Medicine project conducted in collaboration with the Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit (MEIRU). The project, Metabolomic signatures of hypertension, diabetes and cardiometabolic multimorbidity in rural and urban Malawi: stratification, inequalities and prediction of incident disease , will investigate whether metabolomic...

The International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry (IMPRS-TP) offers upcoming fully funded PhD positions in neuroscience and translational psychiatry in Munich, Germany. The program also includes an integrated residency/PhD track for exceptional medical doctors. Research spans molecular, cellular, and systemic psychiatric research, including molecular medicine, neuroscience, clinical psychiatry, molecular genetics in animal models, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, behavior...