PhD Opportunities in Public Health in United States

The Johnson Lab in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas is offering a fully funded PhD position beginning in Fall 2027 in photosynthesis and global ecology. The project will link plant physiology experiments with satellite remote sensing and Earth system modeling to improve understanding of photosynthesis and the global carbon cycle. The doctoral researcher will work across experimental plant science, ecological analysis, remote sensing, and Earth system s...

Funded Master's and PhD research opportunity in flood risk and engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. The project focuses on compound flooding, including interactions among debris, structures and waves, and the assessment of flood risk. Students will use numerical modelling, machine learning and remote sensing to investigate complex flood hazards and their consequences. The research is based in the COMPOUND Flood Lab within the Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environment...

The University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs is accepting applications for its interdisciplinary PhD in Sustainable Development program. The program prepares researchers and practitioners to investigate complex global challenges through research on global development, public policy, governance, economic growth, poverty reduction, and social transformation. Its scope is international and welcomes applicants connected to the United States, Latin America, and Africa, with the oppo...

This research opportunity is based in the Office of Vaccine Research and Review at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, Maryland. The project examines why neonates and infants respond poorly to vaccination, with a focus on early-age host immune responses in a neonatal mouse model. The work is centered on the cellular and molecular pathways that shape suboptimal vaccine responses during early life, especially the behavior ...

Baylor University’s Department of Biology is recruiting 2–3 funded PhD students for a Fall 2027 start. The research focuses on microbiomes and the ways microbial communities influence health, organisms, and environments. The group uses long-read metagenomics, microbial genomics, and bioinformatics to study diverse biological systems. Projects may address the relationship between microbiomes and childhood undernutrition, fish mucosal microbial ecology, and microbial communities in the built envir...

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...

The University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business is inviting applications to its PhD Program in Organizational Behavior . The program examines phenomena in organizational settings through a variety of research approaches and prepares doctoral researchers for academic careers in management and adjacent fields. Organizational Behavior faculty include Russell Cropanzano, Stefanie K. Johnson, David Hekman, Christina Lacerenza, Rebecca Mitchell, and the PhD Director. The division also in...

Georgia Southern University is recruiting a doctoral student for an interdisciplinary, EPA-funded research project on sustainable wastewater treatment and nutrient recovery. The project focuses on recovering nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater using 3D-printed alginate hydrogels integrated with natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) and a synthetic microalgal-bacterial consortium. The PhD researcher will contribute to hydrogel optimization through laboratory experiments, pilot-scale evaluati...

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Environmental Laboratory (EL) offers a research appointment within a broad environmental science and engineering environment. As one of seven laboratories in USACE-ERDC, EL focuses on solving environmental challenges for the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, and the nation through applied research and development. Participants will work under the guidance of a mentor in a real-world laboratory setting and gain hands-on experience with ...