2 Postdoctoral Researchers, Epidemiology / Medical Statistics
About this role
Faculty of Medicine, Population Health
The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 4000 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 17,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations.
We are now looking for
Two Postdoctoral Researchers
to join us in the Research Unit for Population Health, a multidisciplinary research and teaching unit at the Faculty of Medicine. The postdoctoral positions are set within Health Dimensions Theme 2, Longitudinal Models of Multimorbidity . Health Dimensions is a multidisciplinary research initiative funded by the Research Council of Finland. The research programme brings together researchers an groups exploring the complex, multidimensional nature of human health, with the aim to prevent chronic diseases and multimorbidity through a new level of understanding and acting on these dimensions - lifelong molecular, physiological, environmental, behavioural and societal mechanisms.
About the job
The postdoctoral researchers will join a multi-disciplinary research group of experts working in life course epidemiology, biostatistics, psychology and clinical medicine. Together, we work on various projects exploring the development of multimorbidity across the life course, with the aim to promote health and well-being from prenatal period up to later life.
Both postdoctoral researchers will analyse large sets of nationwide health, healthcare and sociodemographic data from Finland and other Nordic countries to examine the roles of early life exposures (risk and resilience factors, as well as mechanisms) in the development of multimorbidity in the early part of the life course.
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