PhD Opportunities in Epidemiology in Japan

Fully funded PhD opportunity in precision medicine and health inequalities at the Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HEHTA) unit, University of Glasgow. The project will analyse individual participant data from major UK clinical trials to investigate how preventive and treatment strategies can be better targeted. The research aims to improve health outcomes while reducing inequalities, bringing together precision medicine, causal inference, statistics, epidemiology and health eco...

The University of Zurich is offering a PhD position in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Research Zurich group within the Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology at the University Children's Hospital Zurich. The project focuses on Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) in children, a challenging manifestation of Lyme disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi . The doctoral researcher will work within the prospective BRILLIANT study, which investigates Lyme disease in children aged 0–17 years....

This PhD opening is based in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Helsinki , within the Department of Pharmacology and Drug Therapy . The project focuses on medication safety and treatment effectiveness as part of social and clinical pharmacy research. The doctoral researcher will work on developing new effective operating models, methods and evidence to identify, prevent and manage medication-related risks in social and healthcare. The main research areas include risk management for med...

The Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Helsinki is seeking a doctoral researcher in social and clinical pharmacy for a fixed-term employment relationship of up to five years. The position is based in the Department of Pharmacology and Drug Therapy. The research area sits within a multidisciplinary health sciences field that focuses on optimizing patients’ medication use, promoting health, and preventing disease. The advertised area covers the use, availability, and effectiveness of medicin...

The University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Social Sciences is offering a doctoral researcher position in a project on education-related inequalities. The post is based in the Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health and is part of a Research Council of Finland funded project, Education – a Universal Solvent? Towards a Cross-Disciplinary Synthesis . The project examines educational differences across several connected research areas: intergenerational social stratification, population...

This scholarship supports a PhD in cancer research at a French university, with the dissertation carried out in a laboratory in France. It is funded by the Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer , France’s largest independent non-profit organisation supporting cancer research. The call is broad in the way it defines eligible cancer-related work, spanning basic research , translational research , clinical research , epidemiological research , and applied social sciences focused on cancer and cancer pre...

Graduate School of Biomedical Science (BIOME) at the University of Duisburg-Essen offers a doctoral programme for PhD and MD graduates in a highly interdisciplinary biomedical environment in Essen, Germany. The school brings together doctoral researchers from the Faculties of Biology and Medicine and connects them with a broad set of current research foci, including behavioural and clinical neuroscience, cellular and molecular immunology, computational biomedicine, infectious diseases, ischaemia...

Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS) in Bremen is seeking several statisticians to contribute to cross-departmental research in large epidemiological cohort studies and related health-data projects. The advertised positions sit within BIPS’s broader prevention research agenda, with a strong emphasis on methodological and implementation research. The institute conducts its own cohort studies, participates in the NAKO Health Study, and uses secondary data from health i...

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...