Stillingstittel: PhD Research Fellowship in Pharmacoepidemiology

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest institution of research and education with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. Its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally esteemed research communities make UiO an important contributor to society.PhD Research Fellowship in Pharmacoepidemiology

Position as PhD Research fellow is available at Section of Pharmacy at the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway.

The fellowship will be for a period of 3 years, or 4 years including 25 % compulsory work contingent on suitability for teaching in a Scandinavian language. Starting date no later than 1 October, 2016. No one can be appointed for more than one fixed-term period at the same institution.

Job/ project description:

The candidate will be working on the ERC Starting Grant project “Effects of Medication Use in Pregnancy on Infant Neurodevelopment” (DrugsInPregnancy).The background for the PhD project is the increasing interest in use of causal inference methods in pharmaco-epidemiology. The aim of the PhD-project is therefore to study the application of innovative methodologic concepts to pharmaco-epidemiologic studies, including the use of causal structural approaches to define confounding and selection biases. The initial undertaking of the project will be to use causal inference methods to study associations between medication use during pregnancy and possible subsequent neurodevelopment disorders in childhood. Furthermore, the project will seek to develop methods for understanding causal inference. The epidemiological data consists of data from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort (MoBa) at the National Institute of Public Health linked to other national health registries. The project may also include analyses of epigenetic data from individuals from the MoBa-study.

The candidate will become part of the PharmacoEpidemiology and Drug Safety Research Group headed by Professor Nordeng at the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo. The project will be performed in close collaboration with international partners and partners at the National Institute of Public Health.

The candidate will also become member of EPINOR, the National Research School in Pharmacy and the PharmaTox Strategic Research Initiative at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo. PharmaTox is a multidisciplinary center comprising strong research environments in pharmaceutical bioscience, biology, bioinformatics and statistics.

The compulsory work will include teaching, supervision of master students or administrative tasks at the School of pharmacy, UiO.

Requirements/qualifications:The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has a strategic ambition of being a leading research faculty. Candidates for these fellowships will be selected in accordance with this, and expected to be in the upper segment of their class with respect to academic credentials.

Applicants must hold a Master’s degree or equivalent in statistics or epidemiology. The successful candidate must prove competence in methodological statistics and/or biostatistics. The preferred candidate possesses good programming skills and has experience with handling large data sets. Interest and experience with interdisciplinary work is an advantage.

Candidates without a Master’s degree have until 30 June, 2016 to complete the final exam.

To be eligible for 4 years fellowship the ability to speak Norwegian or another Scandinavian language fluently is a requirement.

Personal qualifications like the ability of cooperation and the ability to work independently, structured and effici

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Universitetet i Oslo, School of Pharmacy

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0313 OSLO

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Oslo

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år