Epidemiology Doctoral Student Positions
University of Florida, Gainesville
The University of Florida is accepting applications for their PhD in Epidemiology program for Fall 2008. Four merit-based research assistantships covering full time tuition and a stipend ($18,000 per year) are available, described below. We invite you to visit the program website at http://epidemiologyphd.health.ufl.edu for information on the program and application requirements.
To be eligible for the assistantships completed applications must be received by June 16th 2008, but applications will be accepted until July 31st 2008.
Epidemiology assistantship: The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health and Health Professions. The awardee for this Department assistantship will be paired with a faculty research mentor during their training. Faculty research interests are provided at http://ebs.phhp.ufl.edu/. The assistantship requires research or teaching service in each training year. Please contact Dr. Elena Andresen, PhD, for more information about this position (Andresen@phhp.ufl.edu 352-273-5359).
Epidemiology assistantship: The Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, College of Medicine. The awardee for this Department assistantship will be paired with a faculty research mentor during their training. Faculty research interests are provided at http://ehpr.ufl.edu/. The assistantship requires research in each year and also opportunities to teach. Please contact Elizabeth Shenkman, PhD, for more information about this position (eas@ichp.ufl.edu 352-265-7220).
Child and adolescent health assistantship: The Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research College of Medicine and the Institute for Child Health Policy. The awardee for this assistantship will work with faculty affiliated with the Institute for Child Health Policy on research activities related to child and adolescent health. Research related to transition to adulthood is also included. Faculty research interests are provided at http://ichp.ufl.edu/. In addition, many faculty affiliated with the Institute for Child Health Policy have appointments in the Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, so reviewing the following website is also helpful (http://ehpr.ufl.edu/). Please contact Elizabeth Shenkman, PhD (eas@ichp.ufl.edu 352-265-7220) or Kelli Komro, PhD (kak@ichp.ufl.edu 352-265-0111, ext. 85517) for more information.
Disability and aging assistantship: The Department of Epidemiology
and Biostatistics,
College of Public Health and Health Professions. The awardee for this assistantship
will work with the research activities of the Florida Office on Disability
and Health (see website http://fodh.phhp.ufl.edu/)
and related aging and disability projects conducted by Dr. Andresen and
her research lab (see example projects at http://ebs.phhp.ufl.edu/grantscontracts.htm).
The assistantship requires research service in each training year. Please
contact Dr. Elena Andresen, PhD, for more information about this position
(Andresen@phhp.ufl.edu 352-273-5359).
