PhD Opportunities in Health Services Research in Portugal

PhD opportunity in implementation science at Aalborg University within the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine. This three-year PhD stipend is linked to the Center for Implementation Science in Healthcare (CISH) , a newly established research center within the National Center for Health Services Research. The project sits inside the doctoral program Health care, Health Promotion and Organizations and is part of a broader research environment focused on implementation science, he...

This PhD project is based at Amsterdam UMC within the Department of Geriatric Medicine and focuses on strengthening client and citizen participation in district nursing research and practice. The study sits within the Academische Werkplaatsen Wijkverpleging Noord-Holland and is linked to the national consortium of academic workplaces in district nursing. You will work on research aimed at making participation a more structural, meaningful and sustainable part of how care is developed and improve...

This PhD position sits within GOV4CARE , a five-year European research project coordinated by the Health Systems and Services Research group at Amsterdam UMC in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare . The project focuses on how European healthcare systems can improve their ecological sustainability and climate resilience, and how these goals can be embedded in policy, governance, organization, and everyday care practice. The doctoral research is internationally comparative and...

This fully funded PhD studentship in applied health research explores the interface between hospital and community care for older adults living with frailty. Based at the University of Cambridge, the project examines the challenges and opportunities that arise when people move between different parts of the health and care system, and investigates how a palliative care approach might improve these transitions. The mixed-methods research programme combines several complementary strands: a systema...

The PhD Programme in Epidemiology at Hannover Medical School , in cooperation with the HZI Graduate School , prepares fellows for independent research in epidemiology and public health. The programme is based in Braunschweig and is delivered fully on-site, with voluntary online elements. Students work on epidemiological and public-health-related research projects and are expected to develop the skills needed to plan, manage, implement, and evaluate research independently. The programme places st...

Monash University is offering a PhD scholarship within Wiser Healthcare and a new NHMRC-funded Centre of Research Excellence focused on strengthening health-system sustainability and resilience. The successful candidate will join the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and contribute to a large national, multidisciplinary collaboration addressing major challenges in healthcare: the overuse of care that provides little or no patient benefit and the underuse of effective care. The PhD ...

This PhD position at Maastricht University focuses on improving outpatient care for vulnerable older adults through the GOUD-poli, a specialized primary-care geriatric clinic developed in collaboration with Maastricht UMC+ and the regional general-practice organisation ZIO. The doctoral researcher will help relaunch and further develop the GOUD-poli and will contribute to both quantitative and qualitative research on its impact. The project examines how this new first-line service can improve di...

The PhD programme in Medical Research: Epidemiology and Public Health at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München is an international and interdisciplinary doctoral programme embedded in the Pettenkofer School of Public Health and the Munich Medical Research School . Doctoral candidates can develop their research within a broad range of topics spanning clinical, molecular and genetic epidemiology , clinical trials and translational medicine , genomic and molecular medicine , digital health , clini...

The University of Cambridge is offering one fully funded, non-clinical PhD studentship in applied health research through the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration East of England (ARC EoE). The successful student will choose from four advertised projects, with the final award made to the strongest candidate across all projects. Depending on the selected project, the student will be registered for a PhD in Public Health and Primary Care or a PhD in Psychiatry. Projects are based in either the Depa...