PhD Opportunities in Public Health in Australia

Bond University's Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine are inviting expressions of interest for a PhD focused on evaluation and implementation science in cardiovascular prevention. The project will evaluate a strategy to integrate influenza vaccination early into hospital-based care following acute myocardial infarction. Although early vaccination during the index admission can reduce all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, vaccination is commonly del...

Bond University is inviting expressions of interest for a Doctor of Philosophy project on the lifecycle value and pricing of medicines on the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). The research forms part of a broader Centre of Research Excellence collaborative program and will develop and evaluate an evidence-informed framework for reassessing medicine value and pricing across the medicine lifecycle in Australia. It responds to the direction of Australia's health technology assessment...

Bond University’s Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, within the Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine, is inviting expressions of interest for a PhD focused on implementing antibiotic stewardship in the community . The doctoral research forms part of the Medical Research Future Fund Clinical Trial Activity Grant project Evidence-Based Antimicrobial Stewardship: Sustainable Implementation in Primary Care (EASSI-PC) . The project aims to reduce antibiotic use for acute, self-limiting infecti...

The University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) is offering a funded PhD opportunity through the Queensland-Bavaria Collaborative Research Project in Digital Twins, artificial intelligence and future energy systems . The doctoral researcher will join the Artificial Intelligence Applications Laboratory and an international research and industry team spanning UniSQ, Queensland energy-sector partners, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and Chemnitz University of Technology. The project will adap...

Monash University is seeking Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants for PhD opportunities across all research areas. This expression of interest is framed as a pathway into doctoral research at Monash, with the successful applicant based at the Clayton campus in Melbourne or another Monash campus as designated or agreed. The opening emphasises independent PhD research under expert academic supervision, with access to Monash’s research platforms and the option to undertake the doctor...

Monash University is offering a PhD opportunity through the Monash Energy Institute and its sponsoring faculties in Information Technology, Monash Business School, and Engineering. The project is based at the Caulfield or Clayton campuses and is designed for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates whose research will advance First Nations peoples’ interests in the Australian energy transition. The advert invites proposals that engage with the energy transition in ways that are meanin...

This PhD stipend scholarship at Monash University invites a student to develop an original research project in human-animal interactions . The opportunity is based in the School of Primary and Allied Health Care at Monash’s Peninsula campus , and is shaped around the supervisory expertise of Dr Em Bould and a broader multidisciplinary team. The project direction is intentionally open, allowing the successful candidate to propose their own research program while building on existing work in anima...

PhD scholarship opportunity in Materials Science and Engineering: NOₓ production by plasma bubble reactor at Monash University is an industry-focused doctoral project delivered through CSIRO’s Industry PhD (iPhD) Program. The project brings together Monash University, CSIRO, and an industry partner to co-develop a four-year research program based at CSIRO Clayton in Victoria. The research explores a plasma bubble reactor that injects tiny plasma-filled bubbles into water to produce nitrogen oxid...

This fully funded PhD will investigate precision medicine for low back pain , with the aim of improving how healthcare decisions are made and identifying which treatments work best for particular patients. The project will combine causal inference and machine learning across nationwide health databases and clinical trial data. The student will develop research expertise in data-driven treatment evaluation, health data analytics and methods for understanding variation in treatment outcomes. Resea...