PhD Opportunities in Epidemiology in United Kingdom

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...

Swansea University is offering a fully funded PhD studentship in Health, Wellbeing and Data Science through the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS). The opportunity is based in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science in Swansea, United Kingdom, and is open to UK and international students. The pathway investigates pressing health and social challenges using observational, descriptive, trials-based, computational, and population-level methods. Potential research ma...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in vector-borne disease surveillance at the University of Glasgow, with the research based at the Manhiça Health Research Centre and the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique. The thesis will investigate mosquito ecology, vector genomics, and climate-related disease transmission. The project is associated with VectorGrid-Africa and involves joint supervision, field-based research, and periodic training visits to Glasgow. Applicants should have a Master's degre...

UCL is offering a PhD project in data-driven housing risk modelling for healthier homes at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. The research will use machine learning to predict damp and mould risk across the English housing stock, drawing on datasets such as the English Housing Survey. The project will integrate dwelling and household characteristics, climate change scenarios and neighbourhood factors to develop robust, explainable and transferable prediction models. Models will b...

[ESRC studentship covers tuition fees and an annual tax-free living stipend at UKRI minimum rates; current stipend is £21,805 for 2026/27.] This PhD studentship at Swansea University sits within the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) pathway in Health, Wellbeing and Data Science . The project area brings together observational, descriptive, and trials-based methods with large population-scale datasets to tackle pressing health and social challenges. Research in this area ...

Applications are now open for a PhD opportunity in veterinary epidemiology and data science at the University of Bristol , supervised by Professor Kristen Reyher through the SWBio DTP . The project, “Using One Health AMU and AMR data to inform stewardship” (Project ID: 3594), addresses a major One Health challenge: the relationship between antimicrobial usage (AMU) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) . The research focuses on ruminant livestock and aims to use epidemiological , statistical , and ...

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Bristol in the GEM-B Modelling Group and the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Behavioural and Social Sciences Evaluation (HPRU BSE). The project is titled Modelling the impact of homelessness and related social exclusion on health in the UK . It is an interdisciplinary PhD combining mathematical modelling and epidemiological modelling to study how homelessness and related forms of social exclusion affect health outcomes, and how interventions an...

PhD in Infection and Immunity at the University of Edinburgh (Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine). This postgraduate research programme is centered on infection and immunity , with projects spanning host-pathogen interactions , immunology , genetic resistance to disease , disease epidemiology , and related animal genomics and bioinformatics themes. The degree is research-led and students are integrated into a supervisor’s group, with participat...

Global Health PhD and MScR at the University of Edinburgh — postgraduate research opportunities in global health, epidemiology, public health, population health, infectious disease, health inequalities, e-health/tele-medicine, migration and minority ethnic health, sexual and reproductive health, and related interdisciplinary areas. The programme is based in the School of Population Health Sciences and the Usher Institute , with research links across the Centre for Global Health , Centre for Popu...