Doctoral Researcher, Epidemiology / Health Services Research
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 a
Doctoral Researcher
to join a research group within the Research Unit for Population Health, a multidisciplinary research and teaching unit at the Faculty of Medicine. The Unit hosts researchers and groups conducting research in life course epidemiology, genetic, molecular and psychiatric epidemiology, occupational, environmental and oral health, as well as health services.
The doctoral researcher position is supported by Health Dimensions, a multidisciplinary research initiative funded by the Research Council of Finland. Health Dimensions explores 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 - molecular, physiological, environmental, behavioural and societal mechanisms across the life course.
About the job
The doctoral researcher position is set within Health Dimensions Theme 2, Longitudinal Models of Multimorbidity . The focus of the doctoral research is to examine the roles of early life course stress and adversity in the development of multimorbidity (e.g. the co-occurrence of physical diseases with mental health conditions). The research will use data from birth cohort studies (e.g. Northern Finland Birth Cohorts 1966 and 1986) and/or longitudinal datasets from nationwide health and healthcare registers and sociodemographic data.
The key duties and responsibilities of the doctoral researcher candidate will include
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